- Prototype units to be
unveiled at this week's Augmented World Expo USA 2024
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation
(NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of
smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products,
is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Avegant, a
renowned leader in light engine technology, to develop optimized
waveguide optical modules for use in future AI-enabled smart
glasses.
This partnership's objective is to integrate Avegant's compact
LCoS AG-30L2 30-degree light engine with a fully customized version
of Vuzix' next-generation full-color Incognito-enabled waveguide.
Together, Vuzix and Avegant will be creating an optimized and
complete AR display module that is intended to be used as an
optical reference design for AI-enabled fashion-forward consumer
smart glasses. This solution will be highly efficient, full color,
mass manufacturable, and lightweight. Further customization of the
waveguides provided from Vuzix will be available for OEMs including
the outer shape, tilt/rake angles, input/output locations, virtual
image location, and focus.
The first prototypes of this collaboration will be showcased
privately this week at Augmented World Expo USA 2024 (AWE), being held June 18-20 at the Long Beach Convention &
Entertainment Center in Long Beach,
California. Attendees will have the opportunity to
experience the solution's cutting-edge optical performance
firsthand and witness the future of AI-enabled smart glasses. Both
Avegant and Vuzix will be showing the prototype demo.
Building on the momentum from AWE 2024, Vuzix and Avegant plan
to unveil a fully optimized version for OEMs at the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) 2025 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. This version will mark a significant milestone in
the AR industry, showcasing a commercially ready reference design
(employing Vuzix' new integrated vision correction) that combines
the most advanced optical technology stacks from both
companies.
For more information or to schedule a meeting at AWE 2024,
please contact warren_russell@vuzix.com or
remi.lacombe@avegant.com.
"Avegant's AG-30L2 LCoS light engine is a compact full color
device that pairs very well with our industry-leading waveguides,"
said Paul Travers, President and
Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. "This partnership promises to
advance the design and introduction of full-color consumer smart
glasses that people will actually want to buy and wear. We look
forward to working closely with Avegant to further develop and
finalize the combined solutions on which we are currently
working."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and
marketer of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies
and products for the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer
markets. The Company's products include head-mounted smart personal
display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable
high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility,
wearable displays and augmented reality, as well OEM waveguide
optical components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 375
patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields
of optics, head-mounted displays, and augmented reality Video
Eyewear field. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics
solution provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary. The Company
has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation
for the years 2005 to 2024 and several wireless technology
innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public
company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in: Rochester, NY; Munich, Germany; and Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. For more information,
visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and Facebook pages.
About Avegant
Avegant is a well-funded, venture-backed
technology company developing next-generation display technology to
enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The
company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and
head-mounted display technologies together with its consumer
electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that
enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Since its inception,
Avegant has developed numerous technologies ranging from the first
consumer wearable high-quality head-mounted display, to lightfield
and foveated displays and, more recently, the smallest LCoS light
engine in production, the AG-30L2. For more information,
visit avegant.com.
Media contact Avegant Corp.: Remi
Lacombe, contact@avegant.com
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