⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
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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...
AR Glasses That Tailor View Automatically
⊲ Inavate ⊳ Researchers have developed a new way to make augmented reality glasses show virtual objects clearly without blocking your view of the real world. The system uses light-polarising...
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...
Smart Glasses Banned from Court Buildings
⊲ syracuse.com ⊳ New York's Court System will ban smart glasses and other recording eyewear from all court buildings starting 20 July. Video and photography have long been barred from courthouses,...
Workers Film Themselves Training Robots
⊲ eWeek ⊳ Some Indian factories are requiring assembly line workers to wear forehead cameras and smart glasses, capturing footage used to train humanoid robots. India has become a major source for...
New Chip Drives VR & AR Convergence
⊲ Tom's Guide ⊳ Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon Reality Elite chip, already powering Xreal's Project Aura smart glasses. The chip delivers a 60% faster GPU capable of 4.4K-per-eye rendering, a...
Cheating with Smart Glasses
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Concerns have been raised over students using smart glasses, hidden earpieces and other connected devices to cheat in exams. UK regulator Ofqual warns that rapidly advancing...
Hands On Android XR Glasses
⊲ Android Central ⊳ Writer Derrek Lee tried two Android XR display glasses at Google I/O 2026: Xreal's Project Aura and Google's monocular prototype used as the reference design for Samsung's...
Meta Opens Smart Glasses to Developers
⊲ The Verge ⊳ Meta is updating its Ray-Ban Display glasses with virtual handwriting for all users, powered by the neural wristband. The feature works across WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and phone...