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Meta Sold Over 7 Million Smart Glasses Last Year, Effectively Tripling Sales in 2025 Alone

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) | Image courtesy Meta

EssilorLuxottica reported its Q4 2025 financial results, revealing the company sold over seven million smart glasses last year. The French-Italian eyewear conglomerate has been making smart glasses in partnership with Meta since the launch of the original Ray-Ban Stories in 2021. Now, in its fourth-quarter results, EssilorLuxottica revealed it sold over seven million smart glasses […]

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12. Februar 2026

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an experimental prototype that Google AI subscribers can try today. Granted, you can’t generate VR world on the fly just yet, but we’re getting tantalizingly close. The News Project […]

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30. Januar 2026

XREAL Rolls out Automatic Real-time 3D Conversion Feature for Its AR Glasses

XREAL has rolled out a real-time 3D conversion feature to its flagship AR glasses, which the company says converts any 2D content to 3D. Xreal initially launched its ‘Real 3D’ software on Xreal 1S AR glasses earlier this month, however now the company has rolled out an update to Xreal One and One Pro that brings […]

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Snap Forms ‘Specs Inc’ to Insulate AR Business Ahead of AR Glasses Launch

Snap Spectacles Gen 5 (2024) | Image courtesy Snap Inc

Snapchat maker Snap announced it’s formed a new business dedicated to its upcoming AR glasses. The News Called Specs Inc, the wholly-owned subsidiary within Snap is said to allow for “greater operational focus and alignment” ahead of the public launch of its latest AR glasses coming later this year. In addition to operating its AR […]

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29. Januar 2026

Snap Forms ‘Specs Inc’ to Insulate AR Business Ahead of AR Glasses Launch

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Virtuix Goes Public During a Turbulent Moment for Consumer VR

VR treadmill creator Virtuix is going public, as its Class A ordinary shares will start trading today on the Global Market tier of the Nasdaq. The company’s stock market debut comes as consumer VR investment and first-party content spending have slowed across the industry. The News Founded in 2013 by CEO Jan Goetgeluk, Virtuix initially started its […]

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27. Januar 2026

Lynx-R2 Headset Revealed With Surprisingly Wide Field-of-View in a Tiny Package

Lynx has unveiled the Lynx-R2, a significant upgrade over its original R1 mixed reality standalone which aims to capture the enterprise and prosumers market. The France-based startup considers R2 is a significant step forward, featuring new aspheric pancake lenses from Hypervision which are said to deliver 126° horizontal field-of-view (FOV)—notably larger than R1’s 90°, or […]

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21. Januar 2026

Distance Technologies Reveals Military AR Goggles for Battlefield Awareness

Distance Technologies has unveiled the Field Operator HUD (FOH), an AI-enhanced AR system designed for military vehicles ranging from light utility platforms to main battle tanks. FOH is said to combine Distance’s own optics with AI-assisted data processing, which the company says improves situational awareness, survivability, and visual workload management in land combat environments. Having […]

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Sleeper Hit ‘UG’ Has Become One of Quest’s Most Popular and Top Earning Games in Less Than 6 Months

While a flurry of VR studio cuts and closures in the last 12 months has painted a picture of a deeply struggling landscape for VR developers, modern Quest success stories have largely flown under the radar. The free-to-play title UG, for instance, has exploded in both popularity and earnings, matching top titles like Gorilla Tag and Beat Saber in […]

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20. Januar 2026

VITURE Calls XREAL Lawsuit “patent-troll-style” in Escalating AR Glasses IP Battle

AR glasses maker XREAL is taking its competitor VITURE to court over a patent dispute, claiming that it’s selling and/or importing units into the US that infringe on its intellectual property. Viture claims however that Xreal is using the suit as a weapon to unfairly compete in the market rather than as a legitimate defense of […]

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