HTC’s VIVE Eagle has been on sale across Asia since its 2025 debut, and now it’s finally heading to Europe and the US. Best known for its VIVE virtual reality headsets, HTC is betting that the next big wearable sits on your nose, not over your eyes. Instead of chasing a flashy display, the company […]
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Xreal just spun up a budget sub-brand called X by Xreal, or xbx for short, and the a01+ is the higher-end half of its debut lineup. It sits alongside the base a01 as a pair of tethered AR display glasses built for movies, games, and work on the go, not a standalone headset. The glasses
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Covering a camera lens with a piece of tape has always felt like the easiest privacy trick there is. It has worked on laptops, dashcams, and doorbell cameras for years, and for a while it worked on smart glasses too. Meta just spent an entire newsroom Q&A explaining why that trick no longer works on
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Google just confirmed it: intelligent eyewear with Gemini AI is arriving this fall, built in partnership with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker. When it lands, it will compete directly with Meta Ray-Ban at flagship prices. Right now, before that launch reshapes the category, AI smart glasses under $100 are already delivering real utility. The
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Even Realities just became the latest smart glasses company to hit unicorn status, and it’s doing things differently than pretty much everyone else. The Shenzhen-based company announced today it has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round led by Meituan and Tencent, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The funding comes at what the
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The Gadgeteer is attending Snapdragon Summit 2026. Here is what to expect from Qualcomm’s next phone chip, XR plans, audio, wearables, PCs, and AI devices.
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AI glasses are moving out of the camera novelty phase and into a more practical fight: what can they put in your line of sight without making you look…
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Most gadgets don’t ship with a charging problem. They ship with a charging ritual you slowly stop noticing, right up until the battery quits at the worst possible time. Price: $59 Where to Buy: Meta Smart glasses moved that ritual somewhere strange. You wear them out, fold them into a case, let the case pull
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Smart glasses used to be a $1,500 punchline. This Prime Day, you can walk away with a 4K capture pair for $69.99 or an AR rig that gives your Steam Deck a giant private screen, and the deals run live through June 26. We’ve pulled seven Prime Day 2026 smart glasses worth your cart space,
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The Ray-Ban Meta line proved AI glasses could actually sell. Now Meta wants the next wave branded as Meta itself, and that’s the real story behind today’s launch. Price: $299 Where to Buy: Meta On June 23, 2026, Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced Meta Glasses, a brand-new AI eyewear line that starts at $299 and ships
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Most people thought Apple would lead on face computers, the way it did with tablets and smartwatches. That changed in the past three weeks. Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter reported that Apple pushed its first AI glasses from early 2027 to late 2027. A cheaper Vision Air model slipped to 2028 or 2029. At the
Apple’s Smart Glasses Slipped to Late 2027 and Google’s Are Shipping This Fall Read More
More than a decade later, Snap finally has consumer AR glasses to sell. SPECS got unveiled at Augmented World Expo 2026 (AWE 2026), and they’re a standalone pair of see-through glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France. The pre-order deposit is $200 and refundable, with the full price landing at $2,195. That
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You already know the pitch. AR glasses that replace your monitor, your TV, your second screen. Every company in consumer tech has a version of it right now, and most of them require you to squint past the compromises to find the product underneath. The display is dim in anything brighter than a dark room.
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You don’t need to wait for Apple. The smart-glasses shelf in 2026 finally has ten pairs that earn their price tags, and the gap between “buy now” and “wait for” has never been clearer. Six weeks of cross-checking specs, prices, and on-frame battery claims across the category turned up a pattern: the big brands are
10 Smart Glasses That Actually Earn Their Price Tag in 2026 Read More
Computex 2026 ran out of Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center from June 2 to 5, and the show was heavier on silicon than on finished gadgets. Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and MediaTek each spent the week arguing about whose chip should sit at the center of the agentic AI PC. Jensen Huang opened with RTX Spark
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The smart glasses market keeps adding players, but most of them ask you to choose between looking normal and actually doing something useful. (Here’s where smart glasses stood heading into 2026.) INMO thinks you shouldn’t have to. The INMO GO3, which launched on Kickstarter in April 2026 and is now heading into production, pack a
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Every year, our “must-have” lists fill up with the obvious headliners: the new iPhone, another foldable, a flagship pair of earbuds. The launches are loud, the unboxings rack up millions of views, and three months later most of us go right back to using the same handful of tools we already trusted. The gadgets that
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Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and
Acer Just Undercut Xreal and Ray-Ban Meta With Two New Smart Glasses Read More
Meta Ray-Ban gets the magazine covers. Amazon’s smart-glasses category gets everyone else. And “everyone else” is doing more interesting work than the headlines suggest. AI assistants on open-ear frames, real Micro-OLED AR displays, 4K POV camera frames, and built-in prescription audio glasses are all sitting one search away, often for half what the big names
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ASUS Republic of Gamers is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating the way you’d expect: with a limited-edition handheld that’s louder, denser, and more ambitious than the one it replaces. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 Bundle was announced on June 1, 2026 from Taipei, and it’s the first Xbox Ally with an OLED display, a
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