Vuzix signs CommsPlus as a Pacific value-added distributor, ships a six-figure smart glasses order, and pushes M400 and LX1 into Australia, New Zealand, and selected Pacific frontline markets.
Niantic Spatial and Singapore’s Land Authority signed a September 21 MOU to test whether national geospatial datasets can power a city-scale Visual Positioning System without street-by-street rescans.
Snap staged an L.A. launch event for Specs and revealed Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI service also previewing on iOS and Mac. Preorders sit at $2,195; public try-ons start Oct 1 at Century City.
Snap pairs SPECS with Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Quick, NVIDIA XR AI, Trifork Tandem, and Hololight—hands-free AR aimed at factories, retail, and field service.
Halliday starts mid-September non-prescription G2 batches. Camera-free waveguide glasses list at $599 with Meeting Flow AI and October Rx shipping.
Lance Ulanoff’s TechRadar review of Even Realities G2, published September 13, praises the camera-free waveguide design and teleprompter, then scores the software and price as unfinished for a $599 frame.
The Ghost Howls’ full RayNeo iO review confirms 33g weight and long battery life, then hits comfort, missing speakers, and Life Log privacy hard.
University of Salerno researchers validated a Registration Quality Index that watches AR anatomy overlays for drift on every Varjo XR-3 passthrough frame — lab proof, not OR clearance.
VR Expert and Treeview are offering workshops, prototypes, custom Android XR apps, and hardware lifecycle support for XREAL AURA before the glasses go generally available this fall.
FORVIA HELLA and Helsinki’s Distance Technologies pair a HELLA Ventures check with a joint push to industrialize a mirrorless 3D light-field AR head-up display — navigation and hazards anchored to the road, without the mirror stack that bloats today’s HUDs.