XR Industry News – Seite 22 – spatialcomputing.info

Meta & Stanford Reveal Ultra-Thin Holographic XR Display the Size of Glasses

Researchers at Meta Reality Labs and Stanford University have unveiled a new holographic display that could deliver virtual and mixed reality experiences in a form factor the size of standard glasses. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, Stanford electrical engineering professor Gordon Wetzstein and colleagues from Meta and Stanford outline a prototype device that […]

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30. Juli 2025

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Revenue Triples Year-over-Year, Fueling Meta’s $3.5 Billion Bet on EssilorLuxottica

EssilorLuxottica released its second quarter earnings report, revealing that Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have tripled in revenue year-over-year. Released in 2023, Ray-Ban Meta is the companies’ second-gen smart glasses, serving up music, photo/video capture, and Internet searches via Meta AI. Starting at $300, the smart glasses have done remarkably well for themselves, prompting Meta to […]

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29. Juli 2025

Brilliant Labs to Launch Next-gen Smart Glasses on July 31st

Brilliant Labs announced it’s getting ready to launch its next generation of smart glasses at the end of the month, making it the company’s third device since it was founded in 2019. In 2023, Brilliant Labs released Monocle, a developer kit which included a single heads-up display that was meant to be clipped onto existing […]

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25. Juli 2025

Sharp Unveils Prototype VR Controller, Combining Haptic Gloves & Standard Buttons

Sharp announced it’s releasing a prototype VR haptic controller in Japan, which aims to reproduce the sense of touch in VR while serving a familiar button layout. Japan-based Sharp says its VR haptic controllers can let users sense texture thanks to “multi-segmented tactile elements” placed on the device’s fingertips. Various vibration patterns on the surface are meant […]

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22. Juli 2025

Meta Researchers Reveal Compact Ultra-wide Field-of-View VR & MR Headsets

Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meat’s Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel optics to maintain a compact goggles-style form-factor. Published in advance of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies conference, the research article details two headsets, each achieving a […]

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18. Juli 2025

Pico Reportedly Developing Slim & Light Mixed Reality ‘Goggles’ to Rival Next-Gen Meta Headset

Pico, the XR headset maker owned by TikTok parent ByteDance, is reportedly developing a mixed reality device aimed at rivaling Meta’s next-generation XR headset. According to a report from The Information, Pico is currently working on a pair of mixed reality “goggles” codenamed ‘Swan’, which are said to be thin and lightweight—reportedly weighing around just […]

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‘Freeaim’ Motorized Shoes Give Your Feet Tiny VR Treadmills, Kickstarter Now Fully Funded

UK-based startup Freeaim kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign yesterday to support the release of a pair of motorized shoes designed to enable natural walking in VR, essentially giving your feet two independent treadmills to walk on. VR treadmills are usually pretty costly and bulky, which means they mostly appeal to enterprise. Now, Freeaim has […]

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16. Juli 2025

Beyond Military, Meta is Eyeing an XR Expansion into the Medical Field

Image courtesy Meta, Orbis, FundamentalVR

It was announced recently that Meta is partnering with military tech company Anduril to bring XR technology to the battlefield. New job listings indicate the company is also looking to expand its XR tech into the medical field. Meta is of course best known for in the XR space for its consumer VR and MR […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

14. Juli 2025

CREAL Secures $8.9M Funding to Miniaturize Light Field Display for AR Glasses

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11. Juli 2025

Meta Reportedly Invests $3.5 Billion in EssilorLuxottica, Further Strengthening Smart Glasses Partnership

Oakley Meta HSTN |Image courtesy Meta, EssilorLuxottica

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10. Juli 2025