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Volcom partners with Loubsol for Europe
Volcom, a sportwear brand owned by Authentic Brands Group (ABG), has partnered with French eyewear and protective headwear specialist Loubsol to design, manufacture and distribute its sunglasses, optical eyewear, sports goggles and helmets across Europe. The first Volcom eyewear collection with the new partner launches in Spring 2027, followed by ...
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Tokai Optical launches new progressive lens brand, targeting first-time wearers
Tokai Optical has launched SMART SELECT, a new progressive lens brand aimed at presbyopic wearers in their 40s and beyond, on September 1, 2026. The Japanese lensmaker positions the line as easing the transition for first-time progressive wearers, citing rising complaints about near-vision strain linked to smartphone and computer use. ...
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Meta tightens AI glasses' privacy LED as venue bans multiply
Meta VP of AR Alex Himel announced on Threads last week that Meta is closing a known loophole in its AI glasses’ privacy system. Previously, the capture LED only blocked recording if covered before it started; users could begin filming, then cover the light to keep recording covertly. Himel said ...
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ArticleMigraine lens maker gets FDA approval to establish category
Avulux – trade name of Matap II LLC (Aventura, Florida) – has received De Novo authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Migraine & Light Sensitivity Lenses. De Novo authorization establishes a device category. Avulux’s product, for precision optical filters, defines the predicate for future devices ...
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News briefsGerman digital-rights group takes on the smart-glasses supply chain
HateAid, the Berlin digital-rights group, has filed a criminal complaint against the management of Meta, the brands Ray-Ban and Oakley (both EssilorLuxottica units), and four retailers: Fielmann, Apollo-Optik (also part of EssilorLuxottica), Mister Spex and MediaMarkt. Filed Aug. 12 with Frankfurt’s cybercrime unit, ZIT, the complaint targets the Ray-Ban Meta ...
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News briefsDuckDuckGo spoofs Meta with $35 ‘dumb’ sunglasses
For years it has been CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grand design to change the “form factor” for mobile computing. Now the public has devised a nickname for Meta’s solution: “pervert glasses.” The often indiscrete footage filmed with Meta’s smart glasses has led to a class-action lawsuit and to stricter policies at ...
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Want ad prompts speculation over biometric glasses from Apple
A want ad posted by Apple’s Vision Products Group has led to speculation about what the tech giant might be planning in the way of smart glasses. The ad specifies no sensor, feature or even device. What it does is call for a “strategic product design leader” to “define the ...
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ArticleZEISS bets on eye-tracking as smart glasses learn to look inward too
ZEISS Ventures has led a €2.2 million investment round in SeeTrue Technologies, a Finnish tech company developing miniaturized eye-tracking technology, the group announced on August 5. Superhero Capital and North Karelia Growth Fund also participated, alongside other investors. The funding is aimed at accelerating the commercialization of SeeTrue’s low-power eye-sensing ...
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Ocuco significantly upgrades its Innovations lab software
Ocuco has anoounced the launch of Innovations 3, a new version of its lab management software (LMS) for optical labs, after15 months of development and its largest investment in the platform to date. The release migrates the system to Microsoft SQL Server, which the company says brings advanced encryption, role-based ...
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Apple reportedly pushes smart glasses launch to late 2027
Apple’s first smart glasses, codenamed N50, will be unveiled at the group’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2027 rather than late 2026 as previously planned, with consumer release now expected by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The delay reflects both engineering refinements and the challenge of shaping the ...
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Maui Jim launches first prescription eyewear collection under Kering Eyewear
Maui Jim has introduced a prescription eyewear collection, its first since joining Kering Eyewear’s portfolio, now available through authorized opticians and partners. The range includes cat-eye, round, rectangular and square frames in acetate, injection-molded material, metal and titanium, with details including elongated hinges and the brand’s Hawaiian pattern. It is ...
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Meta pauses smart glasses feature paywall test
Meta has paused a plan to limit free access to Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses that amplifies a speaker’s voice in noisy environments. The company introduced usage caps in early July, restricting free users to three hours per month unless they subscribed to ...
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ArticleSamsung’s new AI glasses: same silhouette, same guts, still no price tag
Samsung used its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on July 22 to give its clearest look yet at two AI glasses models developed with eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, neither of which received a standalone product name. The Gentle Monster edition is a slim black frame with a ...
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ArticleSENZ and the bid to bundle AR’s visual stack
On June 17 Applied Materials announced an OEM system for smart glasses, comprising waveguide optics, a light engine, sensing, vision correction and electronic dimming. Called SENZ, the system is pitched as cutting time-to-market and manufacturing complexity for brands seeking to build AI-powered display glasses. Applied says it is addressing a ...
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ArticleMeta tightens camera privacy controls while reportedly exploring always-on recording
Meta seems to be pulling in two directions at once with its smart glasses. The company itself announced on July 7 that it will be making it harder to disable the warning LED on today’s cameras, with their on-demand recording. On the morrow the Financial Times (FT) reported that Meta ...
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ArticleXpanceo and JBD tackle the smart contact lens’s toughest circuit
Xpanceo and Jade Bird Display (JBD, Shanghai) are co-developing a micro-display specific to the smart contact lens. According to their joint press release (July 7), they have reached a second phase of their partnership. JBD has been dealing in microLED microdisplays since its founding, in 2015, and became in 2020 ...
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ArticleMeta (expectedly) adds paywall to smart glasses function
Meta has updated the support documentation for its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses to cap free use of Conversation Focus — a tool that amplifies the voice of whoever is speaking to the wearer — at three hours per month, The Verge and other news outlets have reported. ...
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Prada and Gentle Monster partner on capsule collection
Prada is partnering with South Korean brand Gentle Monster on a capsule collection of three titanium frames launching next month in Japan and South Korea, and later this summer in China. Limited in scale and geography, the initiative appears to be a one-off marketing operation aimed at a niche consumer ...
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Innovative Eyewear finds lens partner for its smart glasses
Innovative Eyewear, the US-based smart eyewear company, is partnering with Encore Optical Laboratory, a VSP-accredited lab, to supply prescription and other specialized lenses in support of its online sales channels. The range includes Chemistrie clip-on sun lenses and ZEISS PhotoFusion X photochromic lenses for Innovative Eyewear’s Lucyd-branded AI glasses, as ...
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ArticleHOYA advocates for more public support after ‘generation leap’ in myopia control science
The ARVO meeting last month in Denver was rich in myopia management presentations by lens manufacturers, as has been the case in recent years. However, HOYA Vision Care’s (HOYA) presentation of its latest MiYOSMART iQ clinical trial data drew particular attention, as the company spoke about “halting” myopia in children—while ...
