India, June 17 -- Smart eyewear, though it remains debatable whether they'd prefer to be called 'AI glasses', is poised to become the next category tech companies have a bit of a battle over. Snap Inc., with the consumer release of its augmented reality glasses called SPECS, is making a $2,195 bet to take on Meta's glasses before Google, Samsung and Apple have been able to. There's still a bit of a runway till the time these glasses do begin shipping to buyers, starting with the US, UK and France this fall. Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel believes "SPECS bring computing into the world around us where we live, work, learn, create, and connect." Earlier this year, HT had detailed Snap spinning off its consumer glasses business, and focus on buil...