Vuzix to Showcase Full Color, State-of-the-Art, See-Through, Waveguide-Based Smart Glasses Designs at Upcoming CES 2025 Event
Rhea-AI Summary
Vuzix (NASDAQ: VUZI) has announced its participation in CES 2025 (January 7-10, 2024) where it will showcase new waveguide technologies and smart glasses designs. The company will display its new full-color 1.0mm thin waveguide and a super-slim 0.7mm waveguide, alongside various display engines including µLEDs and LCoS projectors. Multiple new OEM Ultralite smart glasses reference platforms will be exhibited, featuring a full-color binocular model with integrated mics, speakers, and camera. The company expects 2025 to be a major industry inflection point, focusing on high-volume, low-cost waveguide production.
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- Development of advanced thin waveguide technology (1.0mm and 0.7mm)
- Expansion of product portfolio with new OEM Ultralite smart glasses platforms
- Strategic positioning for expected industry growth in 2025
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Insights
The upcoming CES showcase highlights Vuzix's technological advancement in AR waveguide technology, particularly with their ultra-thin 1.0mm and 0.7mm designs. While the product demonstration is promising, showcasing integration with microLEDs and LCoS projectors, this news primarily represents a future product preview rather than an immediate business impact. The OEM Ultralite reference platforms could indicate potential partnership opportunities, but without concrete deals or financial projections, the market impact remains speculative.
The timing aligns with growing industry momentum in AR, especially with major tech companies increasing their focus on smart glasses. However, with
Vuzix will be showcasing its new full-color 1.0mm (millimeter) thin waveguide, as well as a super-slim 0.7mm waveguide. These waveguides will be shown alongside several different display engines ranging from µLEDs (microLEDs) to the latest full color ultra-small LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) projectors. In addition, Vuzix will have on display multiple new OEM Ultralite smart glasses reference platforms, including a full-color binocular model with mics, speakers and a built-in camera. Visitors will also be able to interact with the Company's core product mix, which represents the broadest portfolio on the market.
Vuzix will provide more comprehensive details on these products and designs, along with where they can be viewed, closer to this event.
"Bolstered by the advent of AI and increasingly backed by the largest consumer and software products companies in the world, the introduction and broad market adoption of smart glasses is beginning, and our waveguides and product designs are positioned to be at the heart of it," said Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. "We expect 2025 to become a major industry inflection point, and our focus remains on designing and producing high-volume, low-cost waveguides, and the technologies supporting them."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of AI driven 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 400 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields of optics, head-mounted displays, and the augmented reality wearables field. 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:
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward looking statements contained in this release relate to new upcoming product announcements, new waveguide design efforts, their capabilities, new display technologies, new product demonstrations, potential partnerships to utilize Vuzix waveguides, and Vuzix' leadership in the Smart Glasses and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
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