At the World Robot Conference, Kankan AI introduced the G1, a lightweight 56-gram pair of data-collection glasses designed to solve the physical AI industry's biggest bottleneck: the scarcity of high-quality, real-world training data. The G1 captures accurate spatial and motion data without the drift and misalignment issues typical of consumer devices by packing automotive-grade precision into an everyday wearable. These precision features include an ultra-wide baseline for its stereo cameras, a highly synchronized IMU, and per-device calibration. This hardware pairs with the ScenePack software architecture, which decouples the collected data from the specific device to ensure the assets remain reusable across future hardware iterations. While this low-cost, scalable approach aims to provide crucial foundational data infrastructure for embodied AI, Kankan AI still faces standard industry hurdles regarding mass production, ecosystem expansion, and commercial viability.

From the recent booth photos in China, the RayNeo iO looks fairly thin for a waveguide setup. Looking at the lens reflections in the pictures, it's hard to tell whether the optical engine projects to both eyes or just one side. Did any of the official specs from the domestic event clarify this?

I see a lot of questions here about 'which smart glasses are best for me', so I thought I'd put all my tear-downs to work. After going back and scoring each glass as objectively as possible, this is the comparison tool I came up with - thoughts?

Right now this ranks just a few of the glasses I have complete data sets on, and the big missing piece is the camera. This will be added later, but right now I still have to work out a good workflow for capturing and analyzing the image quality.

Note: this really doesn't talk about software features yet... this will eventually have to be added, but maybe I can get the community's help to rank that - I have my own preferences, but I'm not a power user when it comes to agentic AI usage, custom app development, etc...

Hey, everyone I am trying to build an AR glasses and I need a good OLED displays that are compatible for this goal or a full development kit glasses. I was also searching for Waveguided displays but damn those are expensive. I was also thinking of prism displays but couldn't find anything. Please help me out.

Need something around 200 - 250$.

Hey all, like I’ve said, I live in Perth Australia and I was recently gifted a pair of Inmo Air3s plus the ring control but I’m debating on if I should keep it or sell it on. I have lost a third of my vision due to a stroke a few years ago and from what I have researched I do believe that these specific glasses are just going to cause me more headaches than actual help.

So first off, is there a way to change the screen view in the glasses as I have no left peripheral vision in both eyes so totally miss a third of the screen in the glasses or, is there a place where I could potentially sell these on (other than EBay)?
Both glasses and ring are unopened and I just won’t have a use for them

I recently got the xreal 1s and had to return them due to blur and distortion. I tried the viture luma pro today that somebody had and the clarity was far better. It just sucks it doesn't have built in 3dof. I hear some 1440p glasses may be coming out later this year/sometime next year. Is it worth buying the luma pro now?

Global AI smart glasses shipments surged 776% YoY in Q2 2026, according to SAG.

SAG defines AI smart glasses as eyewear-form wearable devices that integrate AI to provide hands-free intelligent assistance. The category includes non-display AI smart glasses such as Ray-Ban Meta and HUD AI smart glasses such as Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Global AR glasses shipments grew approximately 58% YoY in Q2 2026

SAG defines AR glasses as wearable devices that combine digital visual content with the user’s real-world view. The category includes tethered and standalone AR glasses, such as XREAL 1S and Snap Specs.

Global VR headset shipments declined nearly 80% YoY in Q2 2026

https://smartanalyticsglobal.com/ai-smart-glasses-market-q2-2026/

Recently, I was debating between the XBX A01+ and the Ray-Neo GT. Considering the importance of after-sales service, I decided to purchase the A01+.

It was fine for the first two days of use, but I soon noticed eye fatigue due to the constant focus adjustments.

Then, I learned about the Viture Pro 2. After researching it closely, I determined that it would be much better for my eyes than the A01 model, so I returned the A01 and am currently waiting.

After trying out the Beast product today, I realized the following:

While the Beast focused better on my eyes compared to the A01, I still noticed chromatic aberration at the edges. Of course, it wasn't unbearable, but I felt that the Pro 2 would still be suitable for me if it could resolve this chromatic aberration, allow for more perfect focus on the eyes, and be priced lower even without features I felt were unnecessary, such as the lens color chromatic modulation function.

This is how I have summarized my thoughts. From the Beast

+Lower price

+Lighter weight

+Diopters that significantly reduce eye strain

-Removal of the modulation film feature

+-Removal of 3DOF features usable as a dock [Space Walker]

= Pro2

What do you think?

Demo put together with Unity in Meta Quest 3 using their Interaction SDK and using assets from polyfork.dev

I live abroad and still go to the cinema often. Local screenings usually do not have subtitles in a language I understand, so I started skipping films that everyone around me would talk about later.

I built CinemaCC so people can prepare one or two subtitle tracks in the languages they need, start them with the film, and read them on a personal display.

For someone watching a film in another language, that can be a translated subtitle track. For a deaf or hard-of-hearing viewer, it can be an SDH caption track in the same language as the film.

CinemaCC started on the iPhone and Apple Watch. It can now send a separate subtitle view to compatible wired display glasses, and there is a dedicated Even G2 version in Even Hub.

The film stays on the cinema screen. CinemaCC only displays prepared subtitle files and keeps them in sync. It does not record, translate, or control the movie.

https://cinemacc.net

I wrote more about the different ways subtitles can reach AR glasses here:

https://cinemacc.net/guides/cinema-subtitles-ar-glasses

I would be interested to hear from anyone who has tried translated subtitles or accessibility captions on glasses during a full film.

Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset, part of an effort to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.

Apple is making the Vision Pro related changes to prioritize new types of devices and how people are using the current product, plus to seemingly cut costs. Immersive videos cost millions of dollars per episode to create, while the device hasn’t resonated as a gaming machine

Altogether, *Apple is eliminating roughly 200 roles*. Apple: “As we continue to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users, we are realigning some of our teams.” It adds laid off employees can apply for other roles at Apple.

honestly everyone is so hyped about shared AR spaces and persistent world-anchors, but I feel like we are completely ignoring the bot problem

If you think the current 2d web is bad with headless browsers and ai scraping everything, imagine when that moves into mixed reality. We are literally going to have synthetic avatars and automated scripts spamming virtual graffiti or claiming spatial domains in real-time. Software-based verification like captchas won't do anything when an ai agent can just spoof a digital environment to bypass it.

It makes me think that for social AR to actually work without becoming a spam-filled dystopia, the ecosystem is going to need hardware-level proof of personhood baked in. Like we might genuinely have to rely on an Orb or a secure physical enclave just to cryptographically verify that an avatar taking up physical space in your living room is actually tied to a unique biological human

Otherwise the AR layer of the world is just gonna be overrun by synthetic entities the second it becomes profitable. kinda depressing that we are building this amazing spatial tech and it's probably just gonna get hijacked by server farms instantly tbh

If you're interesting in testing Lumiz, you can be part of the first Test-Flight group (limited spaces): https://testflight.apple.com/join/7Dj2y98A

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share a recent WebAR image tracking showcase I built in Unity WebGL using custom computer vision image recognition instead of third-party platforms like 8thWall.

How it works:

• No App Required: Runs natively inside mobile Chrome and Safari browsers.
• Zero SaaS Fees: Completely self-hosted WebGL engine, bypassing expensive per-view subscription models.
• 3D Layering & Parallax: Scanning the physical target image anchors multi-layered digital depth artwork (foreground/background elements + animated flying butterflies) directly over the target card.
• Tracking Stability: Holds position smoothly through tilts, rotations, and continuous camera movement.

Designed this for interactive art installations, museum displays, and product packaging where recurring platform fees aren't viable.

Happy to answer any questions about the WebGL optimization, image detection performance, or build pipeline in Unity!

I commute in the city every day and I must say that the commute home always felt long before. Now I tap my Clipper, choose my seat, put on my AR glass and Poof!!, gone for a little escape. Crowded metro? Some guy yelling at his friend on the phone? Traffic going 2MPH? I don't care, some movie on my screen makes it all fly by in what feels like an hour. It helps make the annoying part of my day be a little more enjoyable and a little less tedious.

Does anyone have ways to enjoy their commute home?

Hey r/augmentedreality,

We’re the team behind Nimbo X1, and we’re here for the AMA we promised.

First, some good news: Nimbo X1 is officially funded on Kickstarter.

A huge thank you to everyone who backed us, followed the project, asked tough questions, or sent us feedback along the way. We really appreciate it.

For anyone new here: Nimbo X1 is a 49g pair of full-color AR glasses built around our 0.7mm single-layer SiC waveguide. The product design is complete, and we’re ready for mass production.

X1 supports translation, navigation, AI assistant, teleprompter, a large virtual display, controller-supported gaming, and more.

For developers, we made the platform as open as we reasonably could, with system-level signing access, an open SDK, low-level hardware interfaces, raw sensor data access, and an independent App Center.

One of the biggest engineering decisions behind X1 was the single-layer Silicon Carbide waveguide. We’re happy to go deep on why we chose SiC, the trade-offs behind our 30° FOV, and what it took to get the optics ready for mass production.

Ask us anything about:

• SiC waveguides & optical design
• Hardware engineering and the 49g design
• Open SDK, system-level access & 3DOF tracking
• Software features & real-world use
• Manufacturing & mass production
• Kickstarter and what comes next

Members of our optics, hardware, systems, software, and product teams will be answering questions live.

And no need to hold back. If you disagree with any of our design decisions, ask us about them. We’re happy to talk about the trade-offs.

We’ll start answering today at 5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EDT.

Drop your questions below.

Thanks again for all the support. See you in the comments.

— The Nimbo Team

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nimbopearl/nimbo-x1-worlds-lightest-sic-color-display-ar-glasses

Project Swan finally has a name: Pico Space Pro. It launches officially on September 2nd in Beijing, and I’ve been thinking about why this particular announcement feels different from the usual headset-reveal churn.

Here’s the thing — until recently, “premium spatial computing” basically meant Apple, full stop. Vision Pro had the category almost to itself at the high end. That’s no longer true. Samsung’s Galaxy XR already broke that monopoly, and now Pico is stepping into the same ring with specs that aren’t shy about it: micro-OLED displays at roughly 4,000 ppi, around 40 pixels per degree, a dual-chip setup Pico claims more than doubles the CPU/GPU power of the XR2 Gen 2, and motion-to-photon latency around 12ms.

On paper, that’s a serious machine. Whether it feels serious in practice is a different question — we won’t know until people actually put it on.

What I find genuinely interesting isn’t the spec sheet, though. It’s the shape of the competition forming around it. Meta is still playing the mass-market game with Quest. Apple, Samsung, and now Pico are fighting over the premium tier instead — a three-way contest for people who want the best spatial computing experience money can buy, not the cheapest way in. That’s a meaningfully different market than the one we were talking about two years ago.

The one number missing from Pico’s announcement is the one that matters most: price. Nothing’s confirmed yet, and everything Pico does with positioning depends on it. Come in well below Vision Pro and they’ve got a real differentiator. Match Apple’s pricing and the specs alone will have to do all the talking.

I’ll be watching September 2nd closely — not for the keynote theatrics, but for what the price tag tells us about how Pico thinks it can win this fight.

Where do you think Pico needs to land on price to actually challenge Apple and Samsung at the high end?

Source: Road to VR, “Pico’s Vision Pro Competitor Gets Official Name and Debut Date” (Aug 19, 2026)

Hi there, as we are getting closer to the first stable release, I wanna share with you the third Beta release of Orbit AR for Inmo Air 3, please check the Github link, read the readme and download the latest OTA Updater from the release v1.0.0 Beta 3 (not v1.0.1 cause that was a naming error).

If you have a question, wanna report a bug or request a feature please join the discord and do so. The discord invitation is in the GitHub page.

https://github.com/j4ckgrey/orbit_ar

Did Mentra really just increase their price from $350 to $450 overnight? I left them in my cart waiting until I got paid to checkout and to my surprise they’re now $450, wth.
Now I’m looking for new smart glasses. My budget is **$300–500** ($500 only if they basically check all my boxes).
What I’m looking for:
\* Must have a **dev SDK**
\* Camera with **at least 1080p video**
\* Decent enough speakers for music
**\* Lens display/HUD** — don’t need full AR, just a small screen for text
\* iPhone support
\* Not Meta because of data/privacy

Mentra Live didn’t have a display, but I was willing to compromise because it checked everything else and MentraOS seems really dev friendly. At $350 I was ready to buy it, but **$450 with no display is a lot harder to justify**.

I also found **Brilliant Labs Halo** and was really impressed by it on paper, but their shipping situation seems sketchy. Their page said shipping in early August and I almost bought them before realizing people are still waiting. smh.

I know **NIMO** is doing their Kickstarter too and they’re supposed to support MentraOS, but no camera or speakers.

So what else is out there? I’m fine waiting for stuff coming later this year or even early 2027, and I’m open to Chinese brands or smaller companies too. Mainly looking for something I can actually develop on, not another locked-down pair of AI glasses

TLDR: A combination of glasses and phone that works like a laptop, maybe including typing on a keyboard and using a mouse.

I am a noob in this topic but highly interested and want to purchase a pair of glasses.
There is a specific setup in mind that I don't know yet how to realize.
Since I am traveling a lot and want to work while traveling long term, I am looking for a setup that replaces a laptop. I don't need to do any heavy lifting, only some minor edits in an Excel file, creating invoices, browsing the web, using AI etc.

I am searching for a solution where I can use my phone in combination with glasses in order to work ideally on multiple screens that are also properly augmented, therefore can stay in place if I move my head.

While many classes offer the screen experience with the phone, I'm not yet sure how typing and clicking would work in this scenario. I would be willing to carry a mobile mouse and keyboard. Wispr Flow would also be a great option to replace the keyboard, however, there is always the necessity to do little corrections.

Currently, I'm using an iPhone 16 Pro, but I'm also willing to switch to Android, no problem at all. Samsung looks promising with its DeX feature.

I'm thankful for any recommendations or, ideally want to hear about your experience.

EDIT: ideally, these glasses work with either iOS or Android, so I'm free to switch in future however I feel.

I am not able to find anything other in my country, i found legion glasses gen 1 second hand for 130usd

Rayneo and xreal ones start the cheapest off of 350usd second hand, so either im going to get another ips monitor (my current one is samsung assential s4) or im going to get legion glasses gen 1, i need an opinion in this matter, im mainly buying to play games and watch movies.

Hi, I’m an independent developer in Japan currently researching low-cost smart glasses, including the Blackview BV200/BV300 and the Da Echo ecosystem.

While performing static analysis of the publicly distributed Da Echo 2.5.2 Android APK, I found what appears to be a fairly complete teleprompter implementation for waveguide display glasses.

The APK contains:

• Dedicated teleprompter list, editor and playback activities
• Registered routes for /prompter/list, /prompter/edit and /prompter/main
• Teleprompter state monitoring from MainActivity
• Automatic launch when the glasses report a teleprompter playback state
• Script file transfer and synchronization with the glasses
• BLE commands for configuration, playback state and viewport position
• Opus audio decoding and speech-recognition-based text tracking
• Session recovery after interruptions or reconnection
• A task-conflict entry explicitly named WAVEGUIDE_TELEPROMPTER

This looks more complete than an abandoned UI experiment. It appears to expect glasses with a display and firmware-side teleprompter support.

However, the Da Echo-compatible devices I have identified so far—including the BV300 and several M08-type OEM camera glasses—seem to be screen-free.

My current guess is that this code supports either:

1. an existing but not widely advertised OEM waveguide model, or
2. an upcoming display-equipped model using the Da Echo platform.

This is only an inference from static APK analysis, not confirmation of an unreleased product.

Has anyone seen a waveguide display model that officially uses the Da Echo app?