Amazon has responded to The XR Beat after a Bloomberg interview raised concerns about image capture around customers’ homes. The company says unblurred originals aren’t stored and third pa...
At its ‘Meta Connect 2026’ event, Meta has unveiled 100g VR Glasses for virtual screens and video calls, introduced camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and started selling Meta Ray-Ban ...
Smart glasses spending on major Chinese platforms has more than doubled. RayNeo, Alibaba and XREAL are pursuing growth through displays, AI and international partnerships, although Meta retains a subs...
Remote assistance, AI-guided work and hands-free capture are three of the leading enterprise applications. But buyers still need clear answers on hardware, trusted knowledge, privacy and fleet control...
Japanese multinational TDK AIsight acquired what it describes as all OQmented assets in May 2026 and hired the company’s team. TDK has told The XR Beat that it acquired all OQmented assets and hired i...
Even Realities estimates that 30% to 40% of its G2 customers work in sales-related roles. Co-founder Li Wang explains the emerging workplace use cases, the company’s privacy position and what remains ...
Meta has disabled camera access on thousands of AI glasses after detecting capture-light tampering. The white LED identifies photography, video and livestreaming, although some camera-based AI functio...
The label now covers camera assistants, display eyewear, audio wearables and industrial systems with different jobs and risks. Privacy pressure could force the industry to name them properly....
EssilorLuxottica says revenue from AI glasses developed with Meta almost doubled in Q2, while the Q2 Meta earnings call confirmed that strong AI-glasses growth outweighed lower Quest headset sales, li...
Apple is reportedly considering camera-free smart glasses, or cameras restricted to sensing rather than photography and video, ahead of a possible WWDC 2027 reveal. Meta has proved there is demand for...
Snap is assembling its own Fantastic Four for Specs, with four senior industry leads covering healthcare, higher education, manufacturing and retail. They’re also recruiting two sidekicks to han...
David Tanghe spent around 30 years working in construction before starting Tersarai, an early-stage smart glasses company shaped by problems he encountered on building sites. Tanghe began working in c...
Magic Leap is preparing to cut approximately 193 roles at its Florida headquarters as the company restructures around waveguide manufacturing, device integration and partner-led AI glasses development...
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...
ByteDance has reportedly abandoned its original Doubao AI glasses design and moved ahead with two second-generation devices, as competition around camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies in China. Imag...
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...
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...
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...
