New York’s smart glasses ban in courthouses starts on July 20 and includes prescription AI glasses. Companies face a harder decision over smart glasses in the workplace: which devices belong at the do...
A cyclist has been disqualified for wearing video-recording smart glasses during a race. It’s a storm in a teacup but it holds a wider lesson for workplaces: rules around camera glasses need to ...
ArborXR’s Devin Marble and Toriah Teague joined The XR Beat to discuss where smart glasses fit in enterprise, which use cases are forming and why deployment control will be central to workplace adopti...
Meta is reportedly testing ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that could remember far more of what the wearer sees and hears. Camera glasses are also beginning to find workplace uses, where persis...
Even Realities has reached a $1 billion valuation with a camera-free, display-first smart glasses model, as the company expands in the US and bets on optics, information display and privacy. Even Real...
Apple’s reported loss of a senior Vision Pro and smart glasses executive Paul Meade to OpenAI shows how quickly wearable computing talent is being pulled into the AI hardware race. Smart glasses are n...
Meta’s brain-to-text work and Neuralink’s latest implant-surgery update are a long way off everyday headset control. But both have made me think about what XR may need for those scenarios where hands,...
Cover image: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images. Body images: Snap Snap shares fell slightly after the company opened pre-orders for Specs, its new augmented reality glasses, at $2,195. The share price gives E...
IDC says display-less smart glasses grew 167% year on year in Q1 2026, while display eyewear grew 86%. The numbers show why XR companies are moving faster around glasses: cheaper AI eyewear can scale ...
Vuzix CEO Paul Travers speaks to The XR Beat about smart glasses pilots, warehouse workflows, AI glasses, display technology and what enterprise buyers should understand before choosing a wearable str...
EON Reality is putting AI-guided industrial procedures into smart glasses, with Field IQ built around live task guidance, photo checks, supervisor visibility and audit logs for frontline work. The sys...
Wearable Devices has opened early pre-orders for Mudra Pro, a neural wristband aimed at OEMs, enterprise innovation teams, researchers and developers building AI and XR products. The launch brings wri...
Enterprise buyers are moving past hardware trials and asking tougher operational questions about deployment, system integration and long-term return on investment. Vuzix CEO Paul Travers outlines why ...
After Project Aura put XREAL into the Android XR spotlight, xbx a01 gives the company a cheaper display-glasses lane built around portable screens, gaming, travel, casual work and private viewing. Pop...
XREAL’s Project Aura came out of Google I/O with rave reviews. The wired Android XR glasses combine a 70-degree optical see-through display, Gemini support and XREAL’s spatial hardware, giving buyers ...
Meta is giving developers access to the Ray-Ban Display visual layer just as Google I/O brings Android XR, Gemini and AI glasses back into focus. Smart glasses are moving into more testing times, wher...
Samsung’s first Galaxy Glasses are reportedly heading for a July debut. If they arrive with Android XR and Gemini on board, Google’s XR platform will finally have something easier to picture than a he...
Austrian semiconductor behemoth ams OSRAM has sold its CMOS Image Sensor business to indie Semiconductor, freeing uo more focus for AI photonics, digital light and the component layer behind AR smart ...
TeamViewer and Microsoft are adding AI video enhancement to its AR remote assistance solution ‘Assist AR’ to sharpen remote support feeds over poor mobile connections. The update speaks to...
Snap returned to revenue growth in Q1, while CEO Evan Spiegel pointed investors back towards Specs, intelligent eyewear and the company’s upcoming AWE keynote. Snap’s smart glasses push is gaining mom...
