Snap’s Spiegel Still Sees a Bright Future for Computer Glasses

Evan Spiegel sees something others don’t: a neon-red flag, digitally projected on the lenses of the augmented-reality glasses he’s wearing. The co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc. is at Clover Park, next to the company’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California, sporting the new Snap Spectacles. Spiegel was originally supposed to demo a basic chess app, but he decides instead that he wants to challenge me to a more complex game of capture the flag.

He guides me through the process, telling me to tap a button that appears through my own Spectacles lenses on my hand—visible to me, ...