Augmented Reality (AR)

The Qwen S1 specs have a heads-up waveguide display etched into the lenses, and serve as a rival to Meta's Ray-Ban Display model (minus the gesture control). My first impression of these AR glasses was that they were light and comfortable to wear -- I wouldn't have known that they were smart glasses by their weight alone. At the end of each arm are swappable batteries, which snap off easily so you can keep the glasses running for longer when you're on the go.

The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.

Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments.

RayNeo further refines its AR formula for the Air series with HDR10 support and improved audio.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Meta sold more than seven million smart glasses last year. This is according to the annual report of the world's largest eyewear manufacturer EssilorLuxottica, which the company published on Wednesday evening. EssilorLuxottica develops and sells the smart glasses together with Meta.

A year ago, it was said that two million smart glasses were sold and that the annual production capacity was to be increased to 10 million units by the end of 2026. In the summer, the company announced that sales had more than tripled compared to the previous year. A quarter later, EssilorLuxottica stated that smart glasses now accounted for a third of its revenue growth and that plans to increase production were being further accelerated.

The mission to boost refresh rates extends to AR glasses

Meta smartglasses "Conversation focus" live demo, new feature that helps you hear the person you're facing

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=he%5C_%5C_FFJX%5C_B4
( direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he%5C_%5C_FFJX%5C_B4 )

This is mainly meant for being able to hear the person you are conversing with in noisy environments. The video demonstrates the amplification and shows that it can also work over longer distances even though that is not really the main use case advertised.

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China’s traffic police are using AI smart glasses to identify vehicles in seconds, reduce inspection time, and improve road safety.

MSC Cruises is the latest one to ban smart glasses and this may be becoming more and more of a problem for people using them.

Previously in Egypt tourists have reportedly been blocked from going to see the pyramids and some museums there also ban them. Saudi Arabian authorities apparently confiscate them at the airport from arriving passengers. Anyone who needs a prescription needs to consider that they may not be able to use them everywhere.

Google offers more details on their upcoming smart glasses and demos features at Android XR event

Google recently shared new information about their upcoming Android XR devices and software features at an event dedicated to Android XR.

Some information from the event that I found particularly interesting:

* in 2026 Google will release a pair of smart glasses without a display as well as a pair with a monocular display as their answer to the different Ray-ban Meta variants currently out
* it sounds like both first-party and third-party app support will be much stronger than for Meta as the SDK is out and devkits are already being offered to third-party devs
* Google is confident they will be able to offer these with a wider prescription range than Meta's Display glasses
* in 2027 they will release a model with two displays
* Google plans to make WearOS watches able to work to enhance the experience of using smart glasses
* project Aurora done in collaboration with Xreal uses a tethered compute puck and will offer the full Android XR spatial computing environment but uses an optical passthrough similar to currently existing display glasses instead of video from cameras
* Google demoed a new feature that lets users transform any content to 3D in real-time using Android XR

More info:
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-xr-glasses-displays-2026/utm/_medium=mastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w%5C_ANVojMDHY

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Gizmodo points out that smart glasses are still in an interesting phase where the there's a lot of experimentation on what exactly the feature set and even the form should look like which is similar to what happened with phones.

Even Realities G2 smartglasses available, no cameras or speakers

The latest generation glasses still support translation, notifications, teleprompter and adds a new "Conversate" feature that adds AI generated contextual information to conversations as well as a controller ring that also tracks health information.

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/even-realities-g2-first-look-this-years-best-looking-new-smart-glasses-still-need-work-151500132.html?utm%5C_medium=activitypub

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30032139

I've been looking for it in reviews, official information, Lemmy and all. Nothing has come up. So let me ask the big obvious question here as an AR curious power user:

What is the FRAMEBUFFER SIZE (not the resolution of the physical display hardware) when using XReal One and One Pro as a USB-C monitor? Is it limited to 1920x1080 (which would me meh) or can one go higher?

When I first got the OG Quest, I setup a thing where a Raspberry Pi beamed a huge (in excess of 7000 x 3000 pixels) Herbstluftwm workspace over VNC on the Quest. The Quest VNC app was 3DOF only, so no peeking closer to see fine details, and of course the Quest didn't quite have the screen to make this usable, but the idea still tickles my fancy. Asking this to find if the time has come to try again :)

I created a simple Bash script that will always disable the default/internal monitor on your laptop when using AR glasses (or any other external monitor). I find this useful for when using AR glasses such as the XReal One which allows you to change the mode from regular mode to ultra-wide mode and when doing this, it will act as your unplugging the XReal ones and plugging in XReal one again in a new mode, causing the interal laptop display to become enabled.

To keep the laptop display always off, weather the laptop lid is either closed or open, this simple bash script will always disable the laptop screen every X seconds (You can change it by changing the wait variable)

Simply copy this script and create a new bash script such as disable-display.sh, make the script file executable and add it to your startup applications and it will run in the background. You will need to run xrandr command with all of your displays enabled to get the names of the displays and change the variable names in the script accordingly.

NOTE: This script may not work with a full Wayland setup and may only work on X11.

Enjoy

#!/bin/bash

#RUN xrandr TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DISPLAYS AND SET THE VARIABLES TO THESE NAMES

readonly default_display="eDP"
readonly external_display="USB-C-0"

readonly wait=5

while true; do
    #Check if there is an external display connected
    if xrandr | grep -q "$external_display connected"; then
        #Disable the internal display
        xrandr --output $default_display --off
    fi

    sleep $wait
done