XR Industry News – Seite 19 – spatialcomputing.info

Samsung Android XR Headset Rumored to Release Next Month, Undercutting Apple Vision Pro

Samsung Project Moohan | Image courtesy Samsung

Samsung could be launching its Project Moohan mixed reality headset next month, according to a report from South Korea’s ETNews (Korean), which hopes to take on Apple Vision Pro in the prosumer XR segment. Citing industry sources, ETNews maintains that Samsung’s Mobile Experience division will unveil Moohan (Korean for ‘Infinite’) online on October 21st—likely in the morning of […]

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22. September 2025

Why Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Failed on Stage at Connect

Meta's Connect 2025 Live AI Demo | Image courtesy Meta

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at this year’s Connect wasn’t exactly smooth—especially if count two big hiccups that sidetracked live demos for both the latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) smart glasses essentially bring the same benefits as Oakley Meta HSTN, which launched back in […]

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19. September 2025

New Meta Developer Tool Enables Third-parties to Bring Apps to its Smart Glasses for the First Time

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

Today during Connect, Meta announced the Wearables Device Access Toolkit, which represents the company’s first steps toward allowing third-party experiences on its smart glasses. If the name “Wearables Device Access Toolkit” sounds a little strange, it’s for good reason. Compared to a plain old SDK, which generally allows developers to build apps for a specific device, […]

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Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses

The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the ‘Neural Band’ input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality. But Meta has made several clever design choices that will pay dividends once their true AR glasses are ready for the masses. The Ray-Ban Display glasses are a new category for […]

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18. September 2025

Meta Unveils Ray-Ban Smart Glasses with Display, Launching for $800 This Month

Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses | Image courtesy Meta

At the Connect developer conference today, Meta officially unveiled its next generation of smart glasses built with Essilor Luxottica, essentially confirming yesterday’s big leak, which includes the long-rumored pair with a single heads-up display. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off three new base models during the Connect keynote, which includes a curious switcheroo on the […]

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Meta Reveals Next-Gen Ray-Ban & New Oakley Vanguard Smart Glasses

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 (left),Oakley Meta Vanguard (right) | Image courtesy Meta

Undoubtedly the smart glasses headliner of Meta Connect this year was the new $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses, which pack in a single display into a familiar Wafarer-style package. Alongside it though, Meta showed off two new smart glasses: the Oakley Meta Vanguard and next generation of Ray-Ban Meta. Oakley Meta Vanguard – $499 (available […]

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VITURE Launches ‘Luma Ultra’ AR Glasses with Sony Micro-OLED Panels

VITURE has now launched Luma Ultra AR glasses, which pack in Sony’s latest micro-OLED to go along with spatial gesture tracking thanks to onboard sensor array. Priced at $600, and now shipping worldwide, Viture Luma Ultra is targeting prosumers, enterprise and business professionals looking for a personal, on-the-go workspace. Notably, these aren’t standalone devices, instead […]

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17. September 2025

Meta Leaks Next-gen Smart Glasses with Display Ahead of Connect This Week

It seems Meta has a new generation of smart glasses to show off at Connect this week, and it appears we’ve just got an eye-full of the long-rumored version with a built-in display, previously codenamed ‘Hypernova’. As noted by XR analyst Brad Lynch, Meta seems to have leaked the next slate of smart glasses built […]

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16. September 2025

Snap Releases Spectacles OS 2.0 Ahead of 2026 Launch of Consumer AR Glasses

Snap Spectacles (gen 5) | Image courtesy Snap Inc

Snapchat creator Snap today released Snap OS 2.0, the XR operating system powering its fifth and upcoming sixth gen Spectacles AR glasses, which are expected to launch next year. Snap’s sixth gen Spectacles (aka ‘Specs’) are looking to appeal to consumers, which is a company first. And they’re ostensibly set to frontrun its largest competitors […]

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15. September 2025

Virtualware Seals €5M Deal to Support Virtual Vocational Training in Spain

Virtualware, the Spain-based XR and 3D simulation software company, announced it’s secured a €5 million ($5.8 million) deal to broadly roll out its VIROO platform in vocational training facilities supported by Spain’s Ministry of Education. The six-year contract allows Virtualware to bring its XR enterprise platform VIROO to 66 new ‘Centres of Excellence for Vocational Training’ […]

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