⊲ Immersive Wire ⊳ Tom Ffiske at Immersive Wire asks whether privacy concerns over smart glasses are teething friction for a new product category or something deeper. UK pubs, theatres and cinemas...
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Meta’s Camera-Free Smart Glasses?
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Meta is reportedly developing camera-free smart glasses, codenamed Luna, in two styles called Clubmaster and Burbank, according to The Information. Lacking cameras, the wearables...
Meta’s Slimmer Headset Images Leaked
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked ahead of its expected unveiling at Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September. Serial leaker Luna found firmware footage...
Meta Unveils AI XR Tester
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Meta has introduced XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR tool allowing MCP compatible AI agents to autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR applications. Available...
Factories Become AR’s Key Battleground
⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
Boys Weaponising Smart Glasses Against Girls
⊲ Futurism ⊳ Teen boys are using smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers, with Futurism finding numerous videos involving harassment and bullying of girls. Footage recorded in...
Yes or No to Smart Glasses?
⊲ UC Today ⊳ Largest UK pub chain Wetherspoon has clarified that it has not banned Meta smart glasses from its pubs, despite media reports suggesting otherwise. A spokesperson said the chain has no...
Physics Simulation Gets AI Upgrade
⊲ MIT News ⊳ Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Tsinghua University have developed GeoPT, a pre-training method that teaches simulation models the...
Classic Social VR Finds New Life
⊲ heise ⊳ Microsoft's AltspaceVR, the social VR platform it closed in 2023, is being revived after Shane Harris, founder of SideQuest, a platform that lets developers distribute apps for Meta Quest...
Samsung Advances Premium Wearable Technology
⊲ Seoul Economic Daily ⊳ Samsung Electronics used Galaxy Unpacked 2026 to launch "Intelligent Eyewear" AI glasses and the "Galaxy Watch Ultra2", pitching both as anchors of a premium wearable...
Potential Civil-Military AR Crossover
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus, has revealed a prototype pair of compact augmented reality glasses believed to be under development at Anduril, claiming they deliver...
Snap Launches Premium Smart Glasses
⊲ BBC News ⊳ Snap has unveiled Specs, augmented reality glasses priced at £1,995 in the UK and $2,195 in the US, marking the company's return to consumer hardware a decade after its original...