Trace, a startup founded by former Magic Leap engineers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality creation platform the company hopes will become the "Canva of AR". The News Trace says it's targeting everyone from global brands to independent...

It's been a long-held assumption that the human eye is capable of detecting a maximum of 60 pixels per degree (PPD), which is commonly called 'retinal' resolution. Any more than that, and you'd be wasting pixels. Now, a recent...

Magic Leap announced this week at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia its latest AR hardware plans along with a renewed partnership with Google. The News Google and Magic Leap announced in May 2024 a “strategic technology partnership”...

Meta announced it’s shipping out Project Aria Gen 2 to third-party researchers next year, which the company hopes will accelerate development of machine perception and AI technologies needed for future AR glasses and personal AI assistants. The News Meta debuted Project...

A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future. The News Traditional emissive displays are shrinking, but they face physical limits; smaller pixels...

Sesame, an AI and smart glasses startup founded by former Oculus execs, raised $250 million in Series B funding, which the company hopes will accelerate its voice-based AI. The News As first reported by Tech Crunch, lead investors in Sesame's Series...

Amazon announced it's developing smart glasses for its delivery drivers, which include a display for real-time navigation and delivery instructions. The News Amazon announced the news in a blog post, which partially confirms a recent report from The Information, which alleged that...

Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s military tech company, unveiled EagleEye, its XR headset system built in collaboration with Meta. The News Anduril announced in May it was partnering with Meta to build XR systems for soldiers, which the companies said would aim to deliver “the world’s...

iFixit got their hands on a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, so we finally get to see what's inside. Is it repairable? Not really. But if you can somehow find replacement parts, you could at least potentially...

Hideo Kojima's production company and Niantic Spatial released a new teaser showing off a concept for an AR game that the studios see as a "significant moment for both companies." The teaser, seen below, follows a player wearing a futuristic...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at this year's Connect wasn't exactly smooth—especially if you count two big hiccups that sidetracked live demos for both the latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen...

At the Connect developer conference today, Meta officially unveiled its next generation of smart glasses built with Essilor Luxottica, essentially confirming yesterday's big leak, which includes the long-rumored pair with a single heads-up display. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off...

Undoubtedly the smart glasses headliner of Meta Connect this year was the new $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses, which pack in a single display into a familiar Wayfarer-style package. Alongside it though, Meta showed off two new smart glasses:...

VITURE has now launched Luma Ultra AR glasses, which pack in Sony's latest micro-OLED to go along with spatial gesture tracking thanks to onboard sensor array. Priced at $600, and now shipping worldwide, Viture Luma Ultra is targeting prosumers, enterprise...

It seems Meta has a new generation of smart glasses to show off at Connect this week, and it appears we've just got an eye-full of the long-rumored version with a built-in display, previously codenamed 'Hypernova'. As first reported by...