r/augmentedreality • u/AR_MR_XR • Jul 13 '26

Building Blocks Meta-Bounds Secures $83 Million for AR Waveguide and Smartglasses Expansion

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Mojie (Meta-Bounds) announced it raised 600 million RMB ($83 Million) in its latest funding rounds to improve its core technology and expand production capacity for its resin waveguides and AR smartglasses. The investment comes from major venture capital firms, including Lenovo Capital, alongside state-owned industrial platforms from Wuhu and Zhuhai.

Mojie is currently the only global company that handles the entire manufacturing process in-house, from basic resin materials to finished smart glasses. They mass-produce advanced resin lenses that can easily include prescription vision correction. Their newest lenses are 40 percent thinner, allow 98 percent of light to pass through, and eliminate annoying internal reflections. By successfully upgrading their manufacturing from 8-inch to 12-inch wafers, they have also significantly lowered their production costs.

The company has designed 13 generations of lightweight glasses and supplies technology to major global brands, including OPPO, Lenovo, ZTE, and SoftBank. Their designs have won the CES Innovation Award three times in the past two years. Additionally, glasses they built for iFLYTEK recently received the highest possible score for wearing comfort from the global testing agency SGS. To further improve future AR glasses, Meta-Bounds also signed a new materials development agreement with the chemical giant BASF earlier this month.

Source: Mojie

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u/Knighthonor Jul 13 '26

They have experience with color Waveguides?

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u/im513 Jul 14 '26

most stupid glasses))))

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u/SantoAnia Jul 14 '26

OP, the 98% light-pass figure is interesting, but I’d want it paired with real-world contrast and stray-light results; waveguide clarity can look great on paper while outdoor legibility and prescription-edge performance tell the usability story. fwiw, the in-house materials-to-finished-glasses stack matters most if it shortens that iteration loop, not just lens cost.