# Snap Specs put objects in the room

Source: https://idevice.com/snap-specs-waveguide-51-degree-field-of-view
Published: 2026-08-14

> A 51-degree waveguide, 16 million colors and a seven-millisecond redraw. Snap built these for spatial apps, not for notifications.

The field of view is 51 degrees. Snap puts that at a 24-inch monitor seen up close, or a 115-inch screen ten feet away, and it comes off a liquid-crystal-on-silicon panel, a chip that bounces light into the lens instead of sitting in front of it.

Meta's display glasses are 2D screens for notifications. [Specs](https://idevice.com/smart-glasses/snap-specs/roadmap) are made for spatial apps, closer to a Quest headset folded into a frame you can wear down the street, and the optical see-through housing is Swiss TR90 polymer.

The prescription inserts pop out.

Removable inserts cover a wide range of prescriptions, and Snap ships several nose pad sizes so the fit can be tuned to the face wearing them. That is a bigger deal on a pair with optics in the lens than on a pair with a camera and nothing else.

Outdoors is why the lenses are electric. Electrochromic lenses shift from clear to tinted in ten seconds, and the display quotes a seven-millisecond motion-to-photon latency, the gap between moving your head and the image catching up.

The lenses darken on command in ten seconds. Sunlight has no say in it.