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Mark Spoonauer

I just tried the future of smart glasses — and they blow away the Meta Ray-Ban Display

Lumus ZOE glasses with 70-degree FOV.

Don't look now, but smart glasses with displays could be poised to start slowly replacing the smartphones we stare at all day. Right now smart glasses are seen as smart phone accessories, but with steady improvements in the tech and new models on the way from Meta, Google, Samsung and eventually Apple, the phone we used today could eventually be seen as more of a hub for our glasses than as the foremost mobile computing device.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are considered the current gold standard for smart glasses with displays, and Lumus makes the technology behind them. Dubbed waveguides, the transparent optical component beams light from a tiny projector, allowing you to see digital info layered on top of the real world.

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