Researchers at Meta Reality Labs and Stanford University have unveiled a new holographic display that could deliver virtual and mixed reality experiences in a form factor the size of standard glasses. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, Stanford electrical...

Brilliant Labs announced it's getting ready to launch its next generation of smart glasses at the end of the month, making it the company's third device since it was founded in 2019. In 2023, Brilliant Labs released Monocle, a developer...

Switzerland-based light field display startup CREAL announced its closed a $8.9 million equity funding round, which the company says will accelerate the miniaturization of its light field module for AR glasses. The equity funding round was led by ZEISS, the...

It was rumored last year that Meta was seeking a minority stake in French-Italian eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica, not only the largest eyewear manufacturer in the world, but also Meta's partner behind its growing line of smart glasses. Now, a...

Smart contact lens startup XPANCEO announced it's secured $250 million in Series A funding, putting its valuation at $1.35 billion and minting it as XR's most recent unicorn. The funding round was led by Opportunity Venture (Asia), which led the...

Meta recently unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN, the company's latest smart glasses created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica. Now, data miner and serial leaker 'Luna' has obtained images of what appears to be Meta's next pair of smart glasses, this time...

Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell announced he's joining former CEO Brendan Iribe and hardware architect Ryan Brown at Sesame, the smart glasses startup that exited stealth earlier this year. Mitchell announced in a LinkedIn post that he's joining Sesame as Chief...

Today at Xiaomi's 'Human x Car x Home' event, the Chinese tech giant revealed its answer to Meta and EssilorLuxottica's series of smart glasses: Xiaomi AI Glasses. Reports from late last year alleged Xiaomi was partnering with China-based ODM Goertek...

Meta today revealed its next smart glasses built in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica— Oakley Meta Glasses. As a part of the extended collaboration, Meta and EssilorLuxottica today unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced HOW-stuhn), the companies' next smart glasses following the release of...

Vuzix, the veteran smart glasses maker, announced it's secured a $5 million investment from Quanta Computer, the Taiwan-based ODM and major Apple assembler. The latest investment was the second tranche following an initial $10 million investment made by Quanta in September...

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, today announced it's working on the next iteration of its Spectacles AR glasses (aka ‘Specs’), which are slated to release publicly sometime next year. Snap first released its fifth generation of Specs (Spectacles '24) exclusively...

Robert Kalin, co-founder and former CEO of online marketplace Etsy, is reportedly building a hand-held, magnifying glass-like XR device. As discovered by Low Pass, Kalin's new startup Dopple Works is developing a mixed reality device reportedly called 'Loop'. An application for the...

Earlier this year, Meta unveiled Aria Gen 2, the next iteration of its research glasses. At the time, Meta was pretty sparse with details, however now the company is gearing up to release the device to third-party researchers sometime next year,...

Eye-tracking company Tobii announced it's partnering with Prophesee to develop its next-generation of eye-tracking for AR/VR headsets and smart glasses, which will be based on Prophesee's unique event-based vision system. In short, Prophesee makes specialized cameras and sensors that work...

Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in...