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Cellid Puts AR Glasses Into a 1,036-Store Japanese Optical Chain

Megane Top will sell AR glasses under its own brand with Cellid leading development. Crowdfunding opens October 23, and the component catalog already publishes figures the product page leaves to launch.

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Vuzix Ships Shrike Evaluation Units at 40 Degrees, Eye Box Published

Vuzix published field of view, resolution, brightness, eye relief and eye box for its new defense display platform. The last two figures appear in none of the 157 other posts on this site.

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California Vetoed Its Camera Glasses Indicator Mandate, and Neither Objection Addresses It

SB 1130 would have made a visible capture indicator a condition of sale from 2028 and banned the tools that defeat one. The veto message answers the bill's other half.

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Cellid Puts AR Glasses Into a 1,036-Store Japanese Optical Chain

Megane Top will sell AR glasses under its own brand with Cellid leading development. Crowdfunding opens October 23, and the component catalog already publishes figures the product page leaves to launch.

Read more
News

Vuzix Ships Shrike Evaluation Units at 40 Degrees, Eye Box Published

Vuzix published field of view, resolution, brightness, eye relief and eye box for its new defense display platform. The last two figures appear in none of the 157 other posts on this site.

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News

California Vetoed Its Camera Glasses Indicator Mandate, and Neither Objection Addresses It

SB 1130 would have made a visible capture indicator a condition of sale from 2028 and banned the tools that defeat one. The veto message answers the bill's other half.

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Reports

The XR Spec Gap

Across 125 live posts, 197 cells read Not disclosed or Not published. Vendors withhold the four fields buyers ask for first and publish the one specification that no longer separates anything.

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Reports

Who Owns XR

A shortlist that names a company and its parent is naming one supplier twice. Who owns the XR hardware brands, software platforms and development suppliers on current lists, with the page that proves each one.

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Reports

XR Hardware Price Index

The most expensive item in XR is not a headset. Every manufacturer's own published price for headsets, glasses, treadmills, trackers, haptics and accessories, each with the date it was read.

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Listings

Top Product Visualization Companies

Threekit is ranked in three BestInXR configurator lists and its own homepage now leads on AI-Native CPQ, with the words 3D, visualization and augmented absent from the page.

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Listings

Top Virtual Tour Companies

Most comparisons rank products you subscribe to against companies you hire as if they were one purchase. One ends when payment stops and the other ends with something you own.

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Listings

Best Companies for VR Virtual Field Trips for Schools

The content libraries all look alike, so the decision is really about who owns and charges the headsets. Four different purchases hide behind one phrase, and only one supplier publishes a price.

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