Snap’s Specs got a proper hands-on review this week, and by most accounts they’re more capable than Meta’s top-end glasses, fully untethered and mostly comfortable to wear, even if the design still has real compromises. Snap paired the hardware launch with something called Specs Intelligence, an assistant it’s calling “anticipatory,” built to work across iPhone, Mac and the glasses themselves.
Meta’s not standing still either. A review of its Muse assistant called it a pretty strong product with generous free-tier usage, with the reviewer’s main hesitation being less about the AI and more about trusting Meta with that much personal data. Google is pushing further into the home, adding MCP integration to Google Home so third-party AI agents can read home data and control devices directly, starting with Premium Advanced subscribers in the US.
Three companies, three different bodies to put the assistant in: glasses, a general-purpose app, and the house itself. None of them are especially subtle about it. The phone was the last battleground for who owns your primary interface to AI. This is the one after that, and it’s already underway before anyone’s really answered whether people want an assistant living on their face or reading their thermostat.
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