Snap unveils Snap OS 2.0 with native browser, WebXR assist, and extra

Snap has unveiled the second model of its Snap OS, the software program powering its AR glasses referred to as Snap Spectacles. The replace features a new native browser, WebXR assist, and extra. The launch comes as the corporate rolled out its fifth-generation Snap Spectacles for builders final yr and plans to launch a client model someday in 2026.

The discharge additionally comes simply forward of Meta’s Join convention this week, the place the corporate is predicted to disclose its newest updates in good glasses, AI, and different expertise.

Snap OS 2.0 introduces a quicker browser that’s simpler to make use of, the corporate says. Snap has optimized web page loading velocity and energy utilization to permit customers to navigate shortly.

There’s additionally a brand new dwelling display screen with widgets and bookmarks, alongside an up to date toolbar that lets customers kind or converse a web site URL, navigate historical past, and refresh the web page. Plus, customers can now resize home windows identical to they’d on a laptop computer.

Snap notes that the browser now helps WebXR, permitting customers to entry augmented actuality experiences immediately from any WebXR-enabled web site.

Moreover, there’s a brand new Highlight Lens that spatially overlays content material onto the actual world. Now, customers can do issues like do the dishes whereas watching movies from their favourite creators.

“The portrait orientation of our Spectacles’ discipline of view is an ideal match for vertical video, permitting you to get pleasure from content material with out ever having to look down at your telephone,” Snap defined in a blog post. “Simply anchor Highlight in a single place, or have it observe you as you progress round.”

As well as, Snap is making it simpler to relive and share favourite recollections with its new Gallery Lens that permits you to view your Spectacles captures in an interactive format. You’ll be able to scroll by means of a carousel of your movies and set up your favorites earlier than sending them to a buddy or posting to your Story.

There’s additionally a brand new Journey Mode function that stabilizes AR content material and monitoring techniques whilst you’re on the transfer, equivalent to in a automotive or on an airplane.