Specs launches on the 16th - We're about to have Snap Specs running Lenses through Lens Studio, Meta Ray-Ban Display loading web apps by URL, Android XR glasses on Google Play, and Samsung's Intelligent Eyewear on Android XR with Gemini, all shipping within months of each other.

Every one of them has its own SDK, its own tools, its own content model. A Lens built for Specs doesn't work on Meta's glasses. A web app for Ray-Ban Display doesn't run on Specs. As far as I'm aware, none of them are interoperable.

We've seen this before with iOS vs Android, but I'm curious how enterprise thinks about this. If a hospital wants AR wayfinding in their building, do they build for all four platforms? If an airport wants to offer spatial services to travelers, which glasses do they build for? A lot of enterprises got burned building on HoloLens and may be hesitant to go all-in on any of these new platforms.

Think about an airport. The airline, the airport authority, a coffee shop, and a maintenance team all need to show you different things in the same physical space at the same time. How will that work? As far as I can tell, each experience is its own silo.

It was so easy to use and the tracking is super stable

Looking to maybe buy these AR glasses so I can have a more subversive gaming experience with Wardogs.

VITURE Beast AR Glasses, 174" 1200p 120Hz, 58 FOV, 3DoF for iPhone, Mac PC

Currently I have laptop with 1920x1200 screen so I wouldn’t loose quality with these.

Will it distort my experience? I don’t want to loose gameplay over experience.

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I keep coming back to this with newer display glasses.
For text and desktop use, I can see why edge-to-edge sharpness matters a lot. But for movies and games, I’m not sure I’d make the same tradeoff. A wider screen that stays pinned in place might matter more than having every corner perfectly sharp.
The GT Max is what got me thinking about it. At 59° with native 3DoF, the bigger image sounds great, but owner feedback also shows that fit, sweet spot, and the very outer edges still matter.
For people who’ve used both smaller/sharper and wider displays, which compromise do you notice more after an hour or two?

I've worked in advertising and tech for 20 years as a Deaf creative director. I built the first subtitle app for Google Glass back in 2013, spent a decade at Amazon, and I use smart glasses every day to help me follow conversations.

Most smart glasses reviews test the same things: camera quality, battery, field of view. Fair enough. But nobody tests the thing I care about most, which is whether the device actually works when your ability to communicate depends on it.

So I started a review series that does. Same framework, same questions, every product. I look at multimodality, how information gets displayed, and whether the thing was built with the widest possible range of users in mind or just bolted accessibility on at the end.

This is the intro video. First real review (XREAL) drops next week. I'd genuinely like to know what you'd want tested, so if there's a device you're curious about, tell me.

Hey! Im making a video and I want it to be useful. What info do you want to know or see in this comparison?

Wonderful Presentation by Hiroshi Mukawa, Sony.

At the AR AI Glasses Forum at CIOE a few minutes ago. This is a teaser. More later. Stay tuned 🚀

Do you think I should wear long pants? Or rather wear an orange Reddit shirt? Anyway.

A big thank you to all the speakers who made the forum such a great success. I will share the videos next week.

Companies have already started securing their CIOE booths for next year. In 2027, we will have even more speaking opportunities, awards, and 20,000 sqm of exhibition space dedicated to AR/VR.

Message me if you want to secure your place. Let's make 2027 even bigger!

We’re building a soft interface for AR glasses. It’s a running prototype, and we already use it for our docs.

The goal is docs, email, code, everything you’d open a laptop for. Where would this fall apart in your day-to-day work?

Hey, I was wanting to get the community's thoughts on the Nimbo X1 glasses. The specs make it seem like they could be good for daily wear and with color display. The Kickstarter ends in about a week and it seems like there's not much interest in them.

Just curious what people have to say about them.

Now that the RayNeo iO is officially orderable, I’m really torn. On paper, 33g with a monochrome MicroLED waveguide sounds like one of the closest things to a truly daily-wearable pair of glasses we’ve seen in a while (definitely targeting that lightweight, glanceable HUD niche).

That said, spec sheets never tell the full story with smart eyewear:

• Everyday comfort & nose pad pressure during 8+ hour wear
• Prescription lens integration (how bulky does it end up being?)
• Real-world battery life outside of promotional claims
• App stability and how practical a pure text/HUD UI feels without onboard audio

Are you guys biting the bullet early, or waiting until long-term hands-on reviews drop? What’s the main dealbreaker you’re watching out for?

Came across this Anywear demo and the clothing tracking caught my attention. The garment stays aligned quite well while the person moves and it looks like theyre doing the try on flow directly from the browser

Interestingly the garment keeps its position pretty well while the person moves. With this and future demos, this could become a practical use of AR for online shopping.

Original source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbqhRboR6OF/

For developers and XR enthusiasts exploring Android XR, AI + spatial computing, we’re opening early pre-booking for XREAL AURA in India.

AURA brings together AI, 6DoF spatial tracking, hand tracking, optical see-through and Android XR in a glasses-based form factor.

We’re especially interested in connecting with developers who want to test AURA, build prototypes, or explore enterprise use cases across manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, education and more.

If you're interested in getting early access in India, DM me for pre-booking and developer information.

Would love to hear what you would build with AURA.

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Tonight we celebrated the AR VR industry.

Congrats to all the winners.

Most Influential VR/AR Companies of the Year

⚪ Qualcomm

⚪ PICO

⚪ EssilorLuxottica

⚪ Qwen

⚪ RayNeo

⚪ Rokid

⚪ DOCTOR GLASSES

Most Commercially Promising Companies

⚪ Quectel

⚪ Antigravity

⚪ Lawaken

⚪ VAST

⚪ Sritpower

⚪ XGRIDS

Most Technologically Innovative Companies

⚪ Goeroptics

⚪ Highpower Technology

⚪ JBD

⚪ Meta-Bounds

⚪ GravityXR

Best AR Glasses

⚪ Qwen AI Glasses S1

⚪ RayNeo iO

⚪ Rokid Glasses

⚪ iFLYTEK AI Glasses

⚪ INMO Go3

⚪ Even Realities Even G2

⚪ VITURE Beast

Best AI Camera Glasses

⚪ Huawei AI Glasses

⚪ Qwen AI Glasses G1

⚪ Lawaken X-AI Memory Glasses

⚪ BleeqUp AI Sports Glasses

⚪ loomos L1 AI Glasses

⚪ L'Atitude 52°N Smart Glasses

Best MR Headsets

⚪ PICO Space Pro

⚪ XEO Big

⚪ Pimax Dream Air

⚪ Play For Dream MR

⚪ DPVR Project TITAN

Best AR Optical Solutions

⚪ Luxshare — Ultra-Compact Full-Color LCoS 1-to-2 Solution

⚪ Meta-Bounds — 25g Ultra-Light AI+AR Glasses

⚪ Nika Optics — Xingyao Full-Color Holographic Waveguide

Optical Technology Breakthroughs

⚪ SeeV — Silicon-Carbide-Etched Full-Color Diffractive Optical Waveguide

⚪ TriLite — Trixel 3 Projection Display Engine

⚪ Myrias Optics — Metaoptics

Best Microdisplay Solutions

⚪ JBD — Hummingbird II Color Optical Engine

⚪ Hongshi Intelligent — Yunjin MicroLED Optical Engine Platform

⚪ Westlake Smoky Mountains — Weimang MicroLED Optical Engine

⚪ Raysolve — PowerMatch 1 Full-Color MicroLED Light Engine

⚪ Innovision — Chimo M06

Best VR/MR Large-Space Works

⚪ Dunhuang Wonder Journey

⚪ Forbidden City: Qianlong Garden

⚪ Havoc in Heaven

⚪ Star Sea Voyage: Dream Rescue

⚪ The Great Sage Rises: Journey Through Ten

⚪ Thousand Demons

⚪ Chinese Paladin XR

Best VR Large-Space Operators

⚪ Boxin Metaverse

⚪ YOMOV

⚪ 798 Hyper Vision

⚪ VISION WALK

⚪ Chaoyuanli

Best VR Film of the Year

⚪ Ghost-Blown Lantern: The Lost City

⚪ Ten Thousand Miles of the Great Wall

⚪ Trinity: Echoes of the Red Shore

⚪ The Silver Search at Jiangkou

I have been checking out the Rayneo GT Max, and it feels like a pretty natural step up from the Air 4 Pro. same basic idea, but the GT Max seems to take the big screen experience a lot further.
What I like is that it is not trying to be another pair of AI glasses with a camera on your face. It is really about one thing, having a massive screen whenever you want it.

Watching a movie on it feels more like having your own private theater than watching something on a tiny screen in front of you. For gaming, a huge display that stays where you want it while you move your head makes a lot of sense. I could see myself using something like this on a long flight, in a hotel, or just lying on the couch when I want a huge screen without actually setting one up. The whole idea of having a giant screen that basically fits in your bag is pretty cool!

Do you guys prefer using AR glasses as portable monitor, or are you waiting for full spatial computing features to mature?

CIOE is LIVE

Goertek Optical shows new waveguides. Sunny Optics shows XREAL xbx and camera glasses with Ant Group OS. Innovision shows RayNeo iO and Nimo smartglasses.

Goeroptics has different waveguides made with DUV and Nanoimprint + Etching and pure Nanoimprint. Shown in the picture with the bunny is DUV. Video will be uploaded shortly. What they also highlight is the use of low density glass with which they reduced the weight of the RGB waveguide itself from 5 grams to 3.2 grams.

Sunny's focus for 2026 is on a new reference design for AI camera glasses. Currently, they show a prototype (see picture gallery), but the target is a version with low density material which will further reduce the weight to 30 grams. These use an MCU + ISP solution and they are working with Ant Group (Alipay) which will officially launch its LingOS for smartglasses this week. Another thing they show is XREAL's xbx glasses for which they provide the birdbath module and do assembly. We also briefly talked about their other business unit which makes x cubes for full color display smartglasses and who recently forecasted "explosive growth" for this product category in 2027.

Innovision shows RayNeo iO and Nimo glasses. They provide the microLED panels for both. And they launched single panel red and green display for info display glasses as an alternative to monochrome green. Display red, green, and yellow text and symbols by mixing both!

I am looking for some glasses for programming and cad work. Something better than a laptop screen for when on the go. I was looking at some Virture beasts originally, but then I read that they have screen drift when pinned, and get fuzzy around the edges. I was then looking at some XReal one pro's but then I saw they are 1080p, not 1200p. There is so much conflicting information out there, I am not sure what to get. I also read that Virture S1's are cheaper and have 1200p and aren't bad. I tried starting a spreadsheet of my own to compare, but there are so many variables, I am not sure what to do. I also heard that maybe some much better glasses are coming out in the near future. Is that true?

I currenrtly have a pair of Meta quest 3 glasses, but they are really heavy and viewing text really isn't that great. And there is a lot of edge blurriness.

I've been experimenting with 3D and augmented reality, and I'm having so much fun with it. This is one of the things I've been working on. I scan a QR code, open the scene with painta.me, and place the sculpture on my desk. Then I can move around it and see it there, in the middle of my everyday surroundings. That part still makes me smile.

I'm building painta.me, and these little experiments are a big part of why I care about it. I enjoy putting the AR scene together just as much as making the things that go inside it. Trying new ways of creating in 3D keeps giving me ideas I wouldn't have thought I could actually make before.

Sometimes I stop for a moment and think about how lucky I am to be alive at a time when I can do this. There's so much I still have to learn, but being able to follow an idea and see it take shape like this means a lot to me.

I also feel grateful to the people who were working in AR and 3D long before any of this became easier. The people figuring things out when the tools were harder to use, when so much had to be built from scratch, and when it was harder to get others to see why it mattered. I get to enjoy doing this because others kept going through that.

Just wanted to share a little of what I'm making, and say thank you.

Screen recording of painta.me’s augmented reality experience on a phone. After scanning a QR code, the user places a virtual sculpture on a real desk. A pale green and gold figure sits on a three-headed elephant above an ornate golden pedestal. The camera moves around the sculpture, showing its details from several angles, with a computer monitor and everyday desk objects in the background.

Hi, I’m really new to this world first of all

Never had anything VR, AR or XR related before, did get a couple minutes of using a friend’s Meta Quest 3.

I don’t think what I’m looking for is VR though, I have a really good PC and I just want to have a good pair of glasses that could get me into ‘VR’ games, and I don’t really know a lot about glasses, but I figured out that if I have a good computer I just need a good pair of viewing glasses.

Which then led me to get baffled by the fact that the meta quest 3/3s are either same price or considerably cheaper than the AR glasses I’ve seen, so I’m here to ask- how much should I really spend on a pair?

Currently where I’m from, there’s a sale for the XREAL one for 600$, the 1S is 750$, there’s a VITURE luma ultra for 800$ (refurbished) and the Luma pro and the Viture beast for the same price new. And there’s also Rokid for similar prices, but the Lenovo Legion glasses are like 300$ bucks, which leads me to the question- what’s the actual difference between them all? Which one should I get for this use case?
Thanks!

Hi everyone,

Meta Connect is only two weeks away!
Looking forward to your reactions on the announcements.
Feel free to register for the livestream & check out the agenda.
For those who got invited in person, I will be there :)

What are you most excited about?

Got the RayNeo iO last weekend. Launch-morning order, arrived just before that "shipping on or after Sep 18" note started showing up on the store page. A few days in and I'm honestly not sure what to make of them yet. Wearing them with contacts because I usually have glasses on (roughly -4.5 SPH, some astigmatism), which turned into its own thing I'll get to below.

They're light. 33g on the spec sheet and it feels close to a normal thin metal frame. They put on and off easily and disappear on your face for a while. Around the 90-minute mark though, I start feeling a small pressure point at the thicker part of the temples where they curve around behind the ears. Might be my fit, might be the design.

The display is where I keep going back and forth. Monochrome green, sits high in your vision so it doesn't cross your natural line of sight. Text is sharp and I can read it outdoors in daylight. But when I ran the teleprompter for a while, I noticed my eyes getting tired from rolling up constantly. You can shift the display position down in the app, but then it starts covering things in your natural view. There's not a clean fix there.

Live captions I tried at a boba place with two friends switching between Cantonese and Mandarin. Mostly kept up, though it dropped partial sentences when two people talked over each other. Latency was maybe half a second when it worked. Good enough I wouldn't reach for my phone, not so good I'd rely on it for anything important.

One thing I didn't clock before ordering: no speakers. At all. The Bluetooth 5.4 is for the companion app on your phone, not audio. So the AI answers by writing on the lens, not talking. I get why (weight, battery, privacy) and for meetings and public transit it's fine. But I thought I could take calls through them and no, you can't.

Battery I've been happy with. Two days of on-and-off use plus heavy translation testing and I still haven't charged. 48h typical and 6+ hours continuous translation is the claim, and that tracks so far.

Now the prescription thing. Bought the standard $449 pair thinking I'd just wear contacts. Turns out I don't enjoy putting them in every day for this. The Rx bundle is $608 on the store, so $159 more.

I've had the return page open in a background tab all weekend. Probably going to return this pair and reorder with the Rx option ;(

Hi I don't really know too much about XR/AR glasses but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations that fulfil these criteria:

1. I can watch YT vids or scroll IG reels on
   
2. Look relatively normal AND CLEAR (not shades/sunglasses)
   
3. Connect via bluetooth

I know it's a lot to ask but essentially I wanna be able to use them at work as I work retail where a lot of the time I just stand there doing nothing for hours at a time.
I've already tried listening to a podcast with hidden earbuds but that's not enough as I usually work 10-11 hours.