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This week, reports stemming from Reuters highlight how Amazon is employing AR smart glasses to optimise its delivery options. Amazon is planning to deploy its new bespoke smart glasses for delivery drivers. What does the Future hold for Amazon Smart Glasses? We otherwise don’t comment on our product roadmap.
This trend is expected to continue in 2025, but there should be a rebound in 2026. More info A good deal on Quest 3S You can find the Quest 3S (256 GB) on sale on Amazon US and other regions at $400, including a $30 digital Amazon credit. According to the company, the headset sales volumes fell by 10% in 2024 to 6.9
It honestly doesn’t surprise me: we had a similar report about Meta , which was supposed to launch its first consumer AR glasses in 2024 and then was said to have postponed this launch to 2026. The press release says that the government is going to invest money so that the country arrives at shipping 25 million XR devices by 2026.
In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. billion by 2026. It has certainly made some serious advancements in recent years with the release of applications such as Pokemon Go and products like HoloLens.
billion by 2026 according to ARtillery Intelligence. Indeed, Amazon is already experimenting with such technologies as it continues its physical retail conquests. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space. This field?—?including could grow from $2.78
And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. My educated guess is that the process will start in 2026-2027. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.
He said that for these reasons, Luxottica wants to invest even more in the product, and it is planning to expand the production to more than 10 million units by the end of 2026. Good sales and good retention are two characteristics of a successful product. This is impressive.
We had all the indications that this Q4 would have been good again, like the fact that the Meta Quest companion phone app was the first on the iOS store, that 1 Million people had played Batman Arkham Shadow, or that the Quest was the most sold console of 2024 on Amazon. The fact is: we didnt consider Ray-Ban Meta into the equation.
This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026. Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset.
In late September, the Chinese firm debuted preorders for the Apple dongle on Amazon for $59 as part of an extended deal with the online marketplace to distribute the Nreal Air device on its Prime service for US customers. Most recently, reports in November claimed that Apple is delaying its MR device until 2026 due to design issues.
In any case, even if you do that, you’ll still be able to play SteamVR content only through November 2026. If you want to avoid your headset being bricked, you have to block the update and stay on version 23H2, with all the security risks that this implies. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’
Only the second edition in 2026 will be actually released to the market. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. Cosmonius High is releasing a new update with lots of accessibility options. Learn more. FXG’s Nikk Mitchell has reviewed the new KAT Walk C2. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.
Furthermore, Microsoft is stopping compatibility on 1 November 2026 for Windows Home and Pro users on 1 November 2027 for Windows Commercial. AWS Highlight Apple Vision Pro Spatial Computing Developer Tools Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping developers create spatial applications on Vision Pro.
At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. Each lens is as thin as a medical lens, and XPANCEO plans to launch a “perfect all-in-one smart contact lens” with XR features by 2026, as demonstrated at MWC 2024.
Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon. Instead, a buyer must go through professional channels – “because we really want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.
billion USD by 2026 and $99.76 Augmented Reality (AR) technology is set to become one of the fastest-growing and most promising technologies among extended reality. According to reports, the AR market is set to reach $88.4 billion USD by 2028. This includes compound annual growth rates (CAGR) from 46.8 percent from 2021 to 2028.
Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon, instead, going through professional channels – “because we want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.
Together with these commercial smartglasses, we also got to know that, according to Reuters, Amazon is working internally on some glasses, too. The report also notes that Amazon is working on an embedded screen for future Echo Frames glasses that could show up sometime in Q2 2026.
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