Created by The Forge, the AR experience technically stayed confined to the phone screen, but the real-world immersion was heavily enhanced by the physical environment built around it. Outside the UCI cinema, Umbrella Corporation personnel in white hazmat suits patrolled areas cordoned off with biohazard tape and weathered Raccoon City shipping containers. Visitors were even treated to blood-red ice cream shaped like the iconic Resident Evil logo. Inside the theater, Webedia pushed the atmosphere further for the invited community, guiding them from a sterile, clinical hospital environment through a descent into chaos, ultimately ending up in the snow-covered world of the film.

This is running on the MLVision M6. Because it is based on Android 9 (powered by a Unisoc W527 with 2GB RAM), you can either install APK apps, mirror your screen, or stream video directly to the glasses.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Keio University propose Ground Reaction Inertial Poser. GRIP observes motion using four IMUs and foot pressure data from smartwatches and smart insoles. Full-body motion is reconstructed by driving a humanoid with joint torques in a physics simulator.

Abstract

We propose Ground Reaction Inertial Poser (GRIP), a method that reconstructs physically plausible human motion using four wearable devices. Unlike conventional IMU-only approaches, GRIP combines IMU signals with foot pressure data to capture both body dynamics and ground interactions. Furthermore, rather than relying solely on kinematic estimation, GRIP uses a digital twin of a person, in the form of a synthetic humanoid in a physics simulator, to reconstruct realistic and physically plausible motion. At its core, GRIP consists of two modules: KinematicsNet, which estimates body poses and velocities from sensor data, and DynamicsNet, which controls the humanoid in the simulator using the residual between the KinematicsNet prediction and the simulated humanoid state. To enable robust training and fair evaluation, we introduce a large-scale dataset, Pressure and Inertial Sensing for Human Motion and Interaction (PRISM), that captures diverse human motions with synchronized IMUs and insole pressure sensors. Experimental results show that GRIP outperforms existing IMU-only and IMU–pressure fusion methods across all evaluated datasets, achieving higher global pose accuracy and improved physical consistency.

https://ryosukehori.github.io/grip-project/?trk=public_post_comment-text

The NIMO team will join us in r/SmartGlasses

on August 12th at 8 PM Eastern Time (USA)

Ask them anything about the 29g binocular display glasses

• roadmap (software, mentraOS support, the future of smart glasses)
• crowdfunding
• company

I have tried them briefly, but need a few more days. The version of the glasses that I have uses Microsoft Azure AI Translator and Qwen for translation as well as Bytedance Doubao, Alibaba Qwen, Deepseek, and Moonshot AI's Kimi for AI assistant. I don't know what the international version will use. I can't test navigation yet because it does not have anything yet that works here in Japan. But with MentraOS they will get their Mapbox (?) based navigation app as well as other apps.

The glasses will ship in Q4. more on nimoar.com

Loomos, a brand by SHARGE, will host an Aug. 18 launch event for new camera glasses (pictured here). This product will not have a display.

But they will also launch Loomos S1 later this year. These are 29g display smart glasses powered by an LCoS microdisplay. This is a single 0.2cc bridge-mounted light engine that splits images for a binocular 356x200 display optimized for high-contrast notifications.

Kobe University team publishes policy recommendations, supported by a Japanese scientific research grant. The measures include:

Non-installation of dangerous software functions: Device makers should simply not include high-risk features, like facial recognition or screen-reading, from the very beginning.

Context control: This feature would allow smart glasses to automatically turn off or restrict recording and data sharing based on where the user is, the situation, or the people nearby.

Automatic mosaic feature: This would use real-time AI to blur or mask the faces of bystanders in captured videos, and it would default to masking whenever the AI is unsure.

Refusal signals: This would let people or physical locations send an electronic signal that automatically stops nearby smart glasses from recording them.

Finally, the guidelines suggest explicit policy governance and operational management. This involves setting up independent audits and strict usage rules to prevent surveillance and misuse by large organizations or governments.

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Project page: https://tt-lab.jp/smartglass/

via moguravr.com

Hi r/augmentedreality,

We're the team building URXR One, and we're here for an AMA today. Drop your questions in the comments now, and we'll start answering at 5PM PT and keep going for 2 hours. We're in the middle of our Kickstarter campaign, so this is a good moment to ask what you actually want to know before you back.

Ask us anything about:

The hardware, the optics, the design tradeoffs

The Kickstarter, the tiers, fulfillment, timelines

The roadmap and what's coming next

The wider XR landscape and where we think it's going

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/urxrone-glasses/urxr-one-lightweight-spatial-display-glasses?ref=9wgs1k

N+ unveils Volkswagen branded electric bikes, a smart helmet and smart glasses ... with eye tracking? How do you interprete this statement: "A deliberate eye movement to the top right activates and deactivates the Head-Up Display seamlessly."

The N+ VW smart glasses weigh just 47 grams and utilize a single Sony Micro-OLED display with a 640 x 640 pixel resolution, projected onto the right lens with a 20 degree FOV. They are rated for an 8-hour battery life, support both Android and iOS, and integrate directly with Google Maps in addition to streaming the live feed and blind-spot alerts from the e-bike's rear-facing HD camera and radar system.

»The Volkswagen-licensed Smart Glasses take the connected safety systems to another level.
Working in conjunction with Smart View, the Smart Glasses allow riders to access key riding information without unnecessary distractions, keeping their focus on the road while remaining informed.

Inspired by a modern motor vehicle heads-up display (HUD) navigation prompts, rear-view blind spot alerts and intelligent ride information are presented within the rider's natural field of vision. Intentional eye movement top-right activates and deactivates the Head Up Display seamlessly. Developed by the same engineers who invented the fighter-pilot HUDs - presenting telemetry to the pilot onto the helmet lens, where milliseconds matter. The Smart Glasses are not limited to the eBike, they can be used as the ultimate smart glasses for anything from action sports to a spirited motorcycle ride or drive.

Stylish sunglasses you will want to wear everywhere.«

You can pre-order the glasses now for €499 (or $699 / £499), and they will ship in the fourth quarter of 2026.

This week at AWE, vibe code hand interactions for XR and test the new high end EMG wristband by Mudra in an exclusive private session. The new SDK enables B2B customers to easily customize hand interactions into their application! Whether to control smartglasses, headsets, ... or drones! Anything is possible.

Apply for a Private Session: https://wlds.fillout.com/awe-innovationsprint

"Join the private Mudra Innovation Lab at AWE 2026 and prototype a new interaction for your product in under 45 minutes.

AI devices use voice and vision.

We're exploring what happens when you add intent. Discover the missing interaction layer for your AI and XR products."

On June 3, 2026, the Chinese technology giant Ant Group hosted a private meeting in Hangzhou with half of China's AI glasses industry. According to a report by XR Vision, the biggest revelation from the event was the company's official glasses strategy: Ant Group will not launch its own AI glasses. Instead, they are introducing an open-source platform called the GPASS AI Operating System. Previously, GPASS was known only as a trusted connection framework that ran on top of existing systems to handle secure payments and biometrics. Now, Ant Group is expanding it into a complete foundational operating system initiative. Ant Group is a major technology corporation best known for creating Alipay, one of the world's largest digital payment and lifestyle platforms. Their new strategy aims to control the service and software layers of the emerging smart glasses market.

Crucially, this new GPASS OS is being built specifically for lightweight AI glasses designed for all-day, everyday wear. It is not intended for heavy virtual reality or mixed reality headsets. The long-term goal is to allow AI to blend seamlessly into daily life by leveraging Ant Group's massive ecosystem of local lifestyle services. This will expand on features the company has already quietly deployed to existing smart glasses, such as look-to-pay technology, shared bike scanning, and parking fee payments.

Ant Group's decision to pivot toward a full operating system comes directly from its own recent struggles. Over the past year, the company tried to port Alipay's core digital lifestyle services to various AI glasses and earphones. They found this to be incredibly difficult because AI hardware faces strict limits in computing power and battery life. More importantly, the hardware market is extremely fragmented. There are currently more than 30 different chip combinations for AI glasses, completely different display types, and diverse input methods like eye tracking or smart rings. Ant Group realized that simply acting as an upper-layer app developer was merely treating the symptoms, not the disease.

Because of this fragmented hardware, there is a lack of a unified software ecosystem. If the system layer remains disjointed, apps cannot be built efficiently, developers will not participate, and AI glasses shipments will struggle to achieve a real breakthrough. This experience led Ant Group to the conclusion that a unified operating system and standardized hardware are both absolutely necessary to fix the industry's foundation. To achieve this, the GPASS project will provide the industry with not just the software, but also complete hardware reference designs and full development kits. By taking care of the complex underlying system migrations and deep hardware adaptations over time, Ant Group wants to allow eyewear brands to focus entirely on physical design while they build out the solid software backbone.

Source: XR Vision

Image: Previous GPASS trusted connection framework announcement

https://www.gentlemonster.com/int/en/intelligent-eyewear