Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief
THE SO WHAT
Bringing Robert Downey Jr. in as an honorary CX chief for Snap’s SPECS AR glasses is a distribution and narrative play — AR hardware is still fighting for a mainstream use case. If you’re building on AR, assume near-term traction comes from tightly produced, celebrity-driven experiences, not generic utility apps.
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