#ai-smart-glasses

#ai-smart-glasses

Lenskart has now announced that it plans to offer its next-generation AI smart glasses, dubbed B by Lenskart, to developers in the country. Moreover, the company might also sell its upcoming wearables in other countries. Recently, the company revealed that its new line of wearables will be powered by Snapdragon chips. Now, the company has confirmed that the B by Lenskart smart glasses will be equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 SoC.

Remember the Apple Vision Pro? Remember? It was a big, ambitious swing from Tim Cook and Co. - a $3,500 headset that lets you experience "augmented reality" - or, if you follow Apple's demands for branding - " spatial computing." Apple first showed off the Vision Pro in the spring of 2023, and then started selling the device in February 2024, and since then ... you really haven't heard much about it.

The conference kicks off Wednesday, September 17, at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET, with a keynote speech from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to Meta, you can watch as Zuckerberg "shares the latest on AI glasses and lays out Meta's vision for artificial intelligence and the metaverse." Meta should be announcing AI-powered smart glasses, internally codenamed Hypernova, CNBC reports. The glasses are rumored to retail for $800 and have speakers, microphones, and a camera.

It's well known that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are joining forces to release wearable devices powered by Android XR. After all, the three companies have been talking about it for two and a half years and they've made it clear that Project Moohan -- their XR headset to compete with Apple Vision Pro -- will launch before the end of 2025.

Samsung is set to unveil three new devices -- a tri-fold smartphone, its Project Moohan XR headset, and a pair of AI smart glasses -- at an Unpacked event on September 29 in South Korea, according to multiple sources in the Korean media (such as and ). The tri-fold phone isn't a surprise since Samsung has been talking about it all year and ZDNET captured some video at Mobile World Congress in March 2025 .

Interestingly, the Co-Founders of the startup, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are the same Harvard dropouts who developed the I-Xray app and integrated it with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The app went viral because of a demo posted by Nguyen, where he highlighted how the smart glasses technology can be used to doxx (the act of revealing personal information about someone without their consent) people.