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…Yeah. What has been hard in the development of Specs like battery, screens, motion sickness? There's all these things people talk about in the context of AR and VR. I'm curious, as you're at the coalface, what has been a challenge to crack, or where does some of the Snap IP come in, in terms of defensibility you guys have built? Yeah. Gosh. I'd almost want to say everything is hard about fitting a computer into a pair of glasses, but I can talk through the different pieces of our platform and how we've thought about it. One of the things that makes Specs so unique is that we actually own every single piece of the stack. Everything from the developer tools called Lens Studio to the rendering engine called Lens Core, which we've now honed over a decade on mobile phones, especially low-end mobile phones, which is important when you're trying to manage power and thermal on a small device like that, but also our own operating system, as well as our own optical engine. The waveguide, which is the piece of glass there in front of your eye, and the projector itself, some other fancy stuff that we haven't announced yet, but all of these pieces really work together to be able to fit a full-fledged immersive computing experience into a pair of glasses. All of those things are very hard. Building a ground-up operating system on Linux was really difficult to do, but it's way more performant than trying to repurpose Android. We learned that. You don't use Android, you build your own OS for it.…

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