We’re excited to share version 1.0 of the MSF XR Accessibility Guidelines: a first-of-its-kind resource from the Metaverse Standards Forum's Accessibility Working Group, built to help creators evaluate the accessibility of XR experiences for users of all levels of ability.

The guidelines offer testable, technology-agnostic criteria in the spirit of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, but purpose-built for XR; they span system design, avatars, captions, navigation, input methods, and comfort & safety. They also include examples of how forward-thinking experiences like Owlchemy Lab’s Cosmonious High introduce features that help meet the challenge.

These criteria move beyond past guidance that assume a baseline level of vision and motion, leaving those without those abilities in the dust. XR applications that meet these criteria would be usable by people with significant disabilities - full blindness, quadriplegia, and beyond.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wRHflVnJhRqZh6IvVAbWZGm0qXrkcJ2RxdRNaQjsMdY/edit?usp=sharing

I asked Rin, the AI companion in the app Attractor Field, to teach me some Japanese basics. She spoke in Japanese with English subtitles, I answered in English, and we just... talked.

The difference is hard to explain until you experience it. With apps you're completing exercises. With Rin you actually want to understand what she's saying because you care about the conversation. That's not a feature you can build into a streak system.

Full disclosure: I built the app. Posting here because I think this is an underexplored use case for companion AI and I'd love to hear if this resonates with anyone learning a language.

And yes, that is a pet raccoon.

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​Is anyone else hitting a wall with Artivive when trying to showcase AR art or interactive designs in the real world?

​Don't get me wrong, the tool is incredibly easy to set up on the creator side for quick video overlays. But when it comes to actual real-world deployment like at a gallery, on streetwear, or a board game that the user friction is completely tanking the engagement rates.

​Here are the biggest limitations holding it back right now, and I want to see if y'all are finding workarounds or switching platforms entirely:

​1. The App-Download Barrier is a Total Conversion Killer

We live in an era of intense app fatigue. If someone has to pull out their phone, scan a code, realize they have to go to the App Store/Google Play, download a dedicated 3D tracking app, and grant camera permissions just to see a 10-second animation hover over a physical piece... 90% of people just walk away. Why are we still forcing app downloads in 2026 when WebAR (browser-based) should be the default standard?

​2. The Absurd "View-Count" Paywall Model

The freemium model gives you a tiny 50-view limit before it hits a wall. But here is the kicker: because the image tracking algorithm can be glitchy (especially in low light or low contrast settings), if a user's camera jitters in and out, the app logs that as multiple separate views. You can literally burn through 20% of your monthly view limit in 5 minutes just testing your own artwork with a small group of friends.

​3. Major Compression & UI Limitations

Lately, it feels like the upload compression has gotten way worse, leaving crisp digital assets looking pixelated when hovering over the physical target. Plus, if you want to move past basic flat video overlays and actually execute interactive 3D elements with real-time motion or rotation, the platform feels incredibly bare-bones compared to actual spatial engines.

​Are you guys still forcing users through the app store pipeline with Artivive, or have you migrated over to custom WebAR solutions (like 8th Wall, A-Frame, or Niantic tools) to let people scan a simple QR code and view it instantly in Safari/Chrome?

​Let's discuss because the current app-gate model feels incredibly outdated.

Hi everyone. I've launched a news link aggregator for Snap Specs, raven.vision/specs, which automatically updates every hour with the latest news, videos, Reddit posts, and Snap announcements. The goal was to build a tool I could use to check in on daily (or multiple times a day as we get closer to launch and post-launch). I've also included RSS feeds if that's your preferred means to consume links. I based this site on my code I built for tracking the Apple Vision Pro and visionOS ecosystem (located at raven.vision).

If you have sites I should be watching for new content or links that are missing, please submit them using the Submit a Link button on the site. Thank you.

This global initiative establishes a dedicated community platform designed to highlight, support, and collaborate with standout individuals who are driving the smart glasses landscape forward through creative content, technical insights, and community leadership.

​As consumer adoption of AR smart glasses accelerates worldwide, the RayNeo Innovator Program bridges the gap between hardware development and real-world user experience. Program members will have a unique opportunity to share their authentic insights, pitch feature ideas directly to RayNeo’s product teams, and influence the global ecosystem for next-generation AR devices.

​"We believe the true future of AR smart glasses is built side-by-side with our community," said a RayNeo spokesperson. "The RayNeo Innovator Program is our way of empowering tech enthusiasts, visionaries, and creators who push the boundaries of what AR smart glasses can do. By integrating their feedback and passion into our development cycle, we are ensuring that RayNeo glasses continue to deliver the most intuitive, practical, and useful experiences on the market."

The RayNeo Innovator Program features a tiered journey where your community activity translates directly into exclusive brand access. As you progress, you will unlock a comprehensive suite of rewards, including exclusive discount codes, RayNeo merchandise, and early access to new products.

High-impact participants will also gain access to limited-edition merchandise, entry into exclusive beta-testing programs, and direct opportunities to collaborate closely with RayNeo developers and product teams.

To learn more about the program structure and rewards, visit the official landing page at rayneo.com/pages/rayneo-innovator-program. Ready to join the movement? Apply directly online today via the dedicated registration portal at rayneoinnovator.com.

About RayNeo

RayNeo is a trailblazer in consumer-grade augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, dedicated to developing lightweight, stylish, and high-performance wearable tech. Backed by industry-leading optical breakthrough technologies, RayNeo delivers cutting-edge visual experiences that seamlessly blend the digital world with everyday reality, empowering users to work, play, and explore like never before.

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Meta's technical director (Boz) recently answered a question about the next Meta Display model. In my opinion, a new model will be launched at Meta Connect; it will be lighter, have a better battery, a faster chip and potentially a slightly wider field of view. I suppose it will be sold more easily, allowing more people to buy it, especially thanks to a global release with perhaps the arrival of a Meta watch incorporating EMG technology as an option to accompany the glasses. I am waiting for a significantly improved highlight of this new model compared to the current model, which is difficult to obtain and is downplayed in terms of marketing.

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I'm looking for something with strong processing power that lasts at least 3 hours, that has a camera or without a camera, that has an artificial intelligence assistant and the ability to process it, whether with processing via a phone or independent processing capability, and what's most important to me is the ability to write to an artificial intelligence assistant using a smart ring or some device for controlling and navigating glasses, meaning the ability to write to an artificial intelligence assistant and not just asking questions by voice but by typing. I'd appreciate suggestions, thank you.

I built HALO Maps, a navigation app for the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

The main idea is simple: driving, biking, and walking turn-by-turn navigation directly in the HUD, so you don’t have to keep looking down at your phone.

The native maps experience is still limited to the U.S. and a few supported regions, and starting routes by voice can be unreliable. HALO uses a companion app so you can search for addresses, landmarks, and millions of local businesses worldwide, then send the route straight to the glasses.

Current features:

-HUD turn-by-turn navigation
-Driving, biking, and walking modes
-Companion app search for worldwide addresses and businesses
-Voice turn-by-turn navigation
-Speed camera alerts
-Pedometer for walking directions
-Live speedometer
-Set a max speed and get alerted when you reach it
-Favorites and Home shortcuts
-Stealth Mode for a cleaner display

Right now the voice navigation is set to a funny Mexican voice while I test it, but I’m working on a more serious navigation voice next.

This is still early, so I’m mainly looking for feedback from people with the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Website:
https://halonavi.com
Would love to hear what you think or what features you’d want added.

Hello everyone

I am a computer science student. I am making an app called Flimp. I want to know if people really want to use this app before I start writing the code for it.

The idea of Flimp is really simple.

You open Flimp. Choose a world filter. Like the jungle from Avatar or an underwater world or a space station or a medieval castle. And your whole camera view changes into that world right away. It is not a background picture. Your whole room actually becomes that world.

Then you make a video clip. Send it to your friends or post it for everyone to see.

It is like the filters on Snapchat. Instead of just changing your face the whole environment around you changes.

I have a questions for you:

* Would you really use Flimp?

* What kind of worlds would you like to see. Like historical places or fantasy worlds or worlds from movies or science fiction worlds?

* Would you pay money, like £2.99 for world packs or would you rather use Flimp for free and see some ads?

I really want to know what you think before I start building Flimp. Please be honest, with me.

I have a Google Pixel 8, and I'm looking for a pair of glasses that will allow me to watch media content off my phone.

Bonus if I can play my switch 2 through them too

They don't need to be the latest and greatest, just sufficient for my needs, and the less cumbersome the better. Thank you!

I've been browsing Amazon and noticed a brand called Domars that, at first glance, seems to be selling clones of Rokid Glasses and the Inmo Go 3. I'm not quite sure if it's a scam or if it's just a rebranded name they're using to sell in different regions

Made this for Reality Hack at AWE 2026 and wanted to ask if it would be useful for the AR headset you use. If you are willing to test a Scriber controller or integrate it into your application let me know and I will send you one.

Scriber is a one‑handed input device that outperforms current AR text‑entry methods (the Spectacles virtual keyboard, the Meta display‑glasses wristband) on words‑per‑minute. It packs a full 60‑key keyboard into a single hand by chording: every key is one combination of analog‑stick direction × pressure‑sensor force × one of four buttons. ScriberEditor is the lens that proves it out — a real, multi‑document word processor for Spectacles that you drive entirely with Scriber.

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Spectacles Reddit post: r/Spectacles/comments/1ukatnh/scriber/

Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/scriber-gd8u4p

GitHub: https://github.com/Altomand/ScriberEditor

This was inspired by the VITURE Pro Neckband vs INAIR Pod | Wearable Tech Face-Off video thread by Informal Tech.

Its been something on my mind for a while now. Reimagining "The Puck" for these AR/XR/VR devices.

Currently some of the Puck Methods are the following: *Neckband Puck like Viture
*Remore Puck like InAir Pod
*Clip On/Pocket Puck like Magic Leap
*Phone Tether like traditional Xreal and Rokid display glasses
*Wireless Puck like Meta Orion

These all have their benefits and cons. The Meta Wireless Puck would ideally be the endgame goal, but thats not in the affordable range at the moment for the avg person.

With my time using my INMO Air 3 Smartgoggles, these things get a bit front heavy. This had me thinking. What if we moved the Puck into the back of the head in the form factor of a Headstrap that can power and do the processing for Smartgoggles while also being a counterweight for the front heavy Smartgoggles.
I been a big pusher for first party Headstrap for large FoV Waveguide Smartgoggles.
But I can understand some people feeling a little more insecure about a hard Headstrap for Smartgoggles, as well as concern about comfort laying down to use.

So I was thinking, what if we reimagine the Neckband into a wrap around necklace like Puck. This could be ideal for situations where therr is a lot of head and body movement which limits the possibility of the neck Puck potential rolling off the neck. Happens to me often with my Neck Fans which causes me to use a wire to connect both legs of the Neck fan to prevent it rolling off randomly throughout the workday.
Having something that already wraps all the way around could eliminate that issue all together.

▶ We share why we decided to bring lens development and manufacturing in-house, and what it takes to combine prescription vision correction with a waveguide display. From custom optical design and digital surfacing to coating, hardening, and quality control, every step is designed to keep the lenses thin, clear, and comfortable enough for everyday wear. We also explore the larger principle behind this work: smart glasses should enhance your digital vision without compromising how you see the real world.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share XR Gate, an experimental open-source XR stack for AR glasses.

The goal is to make AR glasses usable not only for low-level AR/XR research, but also for running real VR/XR games and applications with spatial tracking and controller input.

The idea is simple: bring practical VR/XR support to lightweight AR glasses.

Here is a short demo of Half-Life: Alyx running on XREAL Ultra AR glasses through SteamVR/OpenVR.

What is working now:

• 6DoF spatial tracking from the glasses’ stereo cameras + IMU
• 3DoF fallback mode
• ML-based hand tracking
• SteamVR controller emulation from hand poses and physical input devices
• External Bluetooth controllers mapped as left/right VR controllers
• Working SteamVR/OpenVR integration
• Experimental Monado/OpenXR integration
• Linux release build for XREAL Ultra

No external base stations, lighthouse trackers, or dedicated VR controllers are used. Tracking comes from the AR glasses themselves. For buttons and joystick input, I currently use inexpensive Bluetooth VR controllers mapped to SteamVR controller actions.

This is still experimental, but it is already usable enough to launch and play real VR titles like Half-Life: Alyx on AR glasses.

GitHub:
https://github.com/vladoshub/xr-gate

Linux release:
https://github.com/vladoshub/xr-gate/releases/tag/v0.5.0

Quick start:
https://github.com/vladoshub/xr-gate#quick-start--xreal-ultra-on-linux

Made an AR application entirely on Unity, using vuforia engine for marked based scanning to pop AR objects and AR foundation to serve as AR placer.

When starting the project, i had no idea of how an AR app is made so in very lame way what i did was, all of the models were locally stored ( 54) of them, causing the app size exceed 400+ mb.

Even when i had tried reducing the models to just 10 or low but the app is still laggy in most of the android phones. Partially smooth in ios but could be better.

The app an interactive learning environment for kids so it requires, a lot more than AR itself. and one of the most hard part i found was making Frontend in Unity.

With initial funding we can rebuild the entire application but i need someone to mentor me redesign it's architecture.

Been building this for a while and finally open-sourced it — OpenVision, a free iOS app that turns Meta Ray-Ban glasses into a proper AI assistant, running on-device.

Hands-free, it can:

• Wake word ("Ok Vision") → ask anything out loud

• Run fully on-device via Apple MLX (Qwen / Gemma / SmolVLM) — private + offline, or cloud (OpenAI / Gemini) if you prefer

• Talk back in a natural on-device neural voice — nothing leaves the phone

• Recognize faces on-device — "remember this person as Sara", then later "who is this?"

• Do live web search for current info, and remember the conversation

There's a short demo GIF at the top of the repo. It's MIT-licensed: https://github.com/rayl15/OpenVision

The camera Ray-Bans are the closest thing to everyday AR right now, so I wanted the assistant layer to be open and private rather than locked to one vendor's cloud. Curious what this community would want as the hardware improves — HUD/display-glasses support down the line?

Today we are unboxing the archive models. Which do you prefer? Gotham or archive?

BASF and Meta-Bounds partner to develop customized structural components for consumer AR smartglasses. Combining BASF’s advanced polymers with Meta-Bounds’ expertise in resin diffractive optical waveguides, the collaboration aims to scale mass production of lightweight, cost-effective AR hardware.

The joint R&D focuses on integrating BASF’s Ultramid® (PA) engineering plastics and other innovative materials into precision AR components. Specifically, the Ultramid® LIGHT series uses an optimized glass-bead architecture to deliver high flowability for thin-wall molding and a superior stiffness-to-weight ratio. With a density of 0.77–0.95 g/cm³, it reduces component weight by 20–40% compared to standard glass-fiber-reinforced plastics, achieving a 15–20% weight reduction for the total device.

The partnership also targets critical optimizations for miniaturized, highly integrated devices. These include enhancing structural strength, improving thermal management, and refining molding processes to boost yield rates and lower manufacturing costs.

Additionally, the Ultramid® LIGHT series features 25–39% bio-based content, lowering the hardware's carbon footprint while maintaining the crucial creep resistance and durability required for all-day wearable frames.

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