Evan Spiegel says Snap can’t fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses (opens in new tab)

Snap’s cofounder and CEO, Evan Spiegel, gave this morning’s keynote at AWE, the augmented reality industry’s big annual conference. He came with news: Snap, best known for its Snapchat ephemeral messaging app, is releasing a pair of AR-enabled glasses called Specs. It intends to ship them this fall for $2,195, and is taking preorders. Though Specs are new, Snap’s investment in smart glasses as a computing and communications platform is anything but. Depending on how you figure, it all began n...