Snap used a September 16 livestream to detail the anticipatory AI, content partners and cellular charging case coming to its $2,195 glasses this fall.
IDC’s second-quarter data puts global smart eyewear shipments up 35.3% while China records its first decline.
Nathie gives up his monitors and laptop screen for a week, running everything through XREAL's a01+ AR glasses. The experiment tracks what works, what strains the eyes and where the setup still falls short.
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Cas and Chary spend time with RayNeo's GT Max to judge whether it tops the company's own AR lineup. The review covers optics, comfort and what the prism-lens design means for daily wear.
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Ray-Ban's own channel shows what a working day looks like when a pair of Meta glasses carries the camera, the audio and the prompts. It is a marketing piece, but it is also one of the clearest looks yet at what these glasses are like to live with on a busy schedule.
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Meta is reportedly preparing a camera-free version of its smart glasses, codenamed Luna, for an October ship date.
Even Realities builds AI eyewear that a passer-by would not clock as a computer, and its design team walks through why that restraint is the hard part. The conversation covers frame weight, display placement and the trade-offs that keep smart glasses wearable through a full day.
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Rokid launched a no-code studio for building spatial AI apps at IFA Berlin, while WeChat Pay debuted a smart-glasses payment SDK with Rokid as a launch partner.
Alibaba’s Qwen unit showed a screenless pair of AI glasses built around iris recognition and eye-tracked payments at Shanghai’s Bund Summit.
HTC’s VIVE Eagle AI glasses go on sale in the US, UK, and Europe from $499 with switchable Gemini and OpenAI assistants.