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January 13, 2026

Time: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Selected as “Best Inventions of the Year”

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses were selected by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2025.

December 29, 2025

How Bright Is Bright Enough for AR Glasses – Both Inside and Outside?

In the evolution of augmented reality (AR) eyewear, brightness isn’t only a metric – it’s a make-or-break capability.

December 2, 2025

Two Paths for AR’s Future, and Why Monocular Also Makes Sense

The future of AR is often framed around a single finish line: fully immersive, binocular glasses that seamlessly merge the digital and physical worlds.

November 13, 2025

Everyday Privacy – How AR Glasses with Geometric Waveguides Are Getting It Right

The promise for augmented reality glasses has always been clear: information right where you need it, seamlessly overlaid on the world in front of you.

October 27, 2025

Meta, Google, and the No-Turning-Back Moment for AR Glasses

Every new category in technology eventually crosses a line where it stops feeling experimental and starts feeling inevitable.

September 30, 2025

AR-Driven Night Vision Is Delivering the Right Data at the Right Time – Directly Into the Line of Sight

Night vision has long given soldiers a tactical edge, enhancing visibility in low- and no-light environments to enable movement, navigation, and target engagement under conditions that would otherwise demand total concealment.

Displays Are the Next Logical Step for AI Glasses: Here’s Why

AI glasses have entered the market with a strong momentum, enabling hands-free access to intelligent assistants, contextual computing, and real-time capture, all in natural-looking glasses- form factors.

See Z-Lens in action at AWE 2025

The Z-Lens architecture offers a 50% reduction in volume and weight compared to previous models, enabling the creation of AR glasses that closely resemble standard eyewear in form and comfort.

Geometric (Reflective) waveguides and MicroLEDs – the perfect marriage

Geometric/reflective waveguides perform much better with MicroLED-based projectors than diffractive alternatives.

AR at Volume Needs Optics That Scale. Reflective Waveguides Are Delivering.

For years, the AR industry has debated whether reflective (geometric) waveguides could be mass-produced at scale. At Lumus, we believe that question has been answered.

Developments in the Army’s Pivotal AR Program Signal a Willingness to Visualize Data Differently

Arguably the most important and ambitious augmented reality (AR) program at the U.S. Department of Defense just took a significant step forward.

January 19, 2025

Augmented reality with “Lumus Inside” technology is revolutionizing the medical field

Basic CRT monitors entered operating rooms in the mid-1900s to display heart rate and other vital signs.

December 19, 2024

Lumus-Powered AR Displays for the Military: Ready for What’s Next

Augmented Reality (AR) is a transformative technology in military applications, capable of enhancing operational effectiveness, safety, and training.

December 1, 2024

Lumus is pioneering advanced transparent display technology

Our innovative reflective waveguides feature a unique design that sets them apart in both structure and performance.

November 11, 2024

Lumus Celebrates 15 years working in the defense industry

August 21, 2023

Spatial Computing: The Future of Work & Play

September 19, 2022

Karl Guttag: Lumus-type Waveguides with MicroLEDs – Maybe 10x more efficient than Diffractive Waveguides

“After making the video, I met with Lumus and discussed their efficiency with MicroLEDs."

September 5, 2022

Joe Rogan and Mark Zuckerberg discuss Waveguides

On the world’s most popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Rogan discussed waveguide technology, introducing the advanced display technology to millions of watchers and listeners of the popular podcast.

September 1, 2022

Customer Spotlight: MediThinQ

Dr. Aviv Frommer Presents Lumus 2D Reflective Waveguide – Natural Looking

Lumus 2D Reflective Waveguides Minimize Waveguide Glow video

Dr. Aviv Frommer Presents Lumus 2D Reflective Waveguide Architecture at SPIE (Intro)

The model presented represents the Maximus product family of 2D waveguides that Lumus designs and commercializes with our manufacturing partners.

Karl Guttag Reviews Lumus Maximus “Lumus Maximus may be ~10X more efficient than Diffractive Waveguides”

Renowned Industry influencer Karl Guttag recently tried on and reviewed the latest dev kit from Lumus featuring our 2D expansion waveguide, Maximus.

December 2, 2020

Lumus Interviews Augmedics About xvision – the First FDA Approved AR-Enabled Surgical Navigation System

Interview between David Goldman, VP Marketing of Lumus, and Nissan Elimelech, Founder and CEO of Augmedics, discussing the origins and development of Augmedics, a medical technology company pioneering augmented reality–based surgical navigation.

Press Release: Reflective Waveguides for AR: Lumus and SCHOTT enter into Strategic Partnership

Lumus, the pioneering innovator of reflective waveguide displays for Augmented Reality (AR) devices, has joined forces with SCHOTT, the leading supplier to the growing AR industry.

January 27, 2020

The Future of Battle is Looking Up

While consumer tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Snap, and others are working on solving the challenges of how consumers will engage with AR glasses, the military around the world is already employing spatial computing in their daily activities.

Lenovo ThinkReality AR device Powered by Lumus optics

Lumus is proud to have been chosen as the optics provider for the new Lenovo ThinkReality A6 device at #LenovoAccelerate

Team Lumus – the Future is looking up

A photo of the Lumus team together on a shared activity.

Key Advantages of Reflective Waveguides over other solutions for AR Displays

Ari Grobman, Lumus CEO presenting at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco – Feb 4th, 2019.

February 14, 2019

Ari Grobman Presenting “Reflective Waveguide Displays for Mass Market AR” at SPIE Photonics West

Ari Grobman, Lumus CEO presenting “Reflective Waveguide Displays for Mass Market AR” at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco – Feb 4th, 2019.

January 28, 2019

Augmedics’ Goggles Are Like Surgical X-Ray Specs

Augmedics’ surgical “X-ray specs” are really an augmented-reality headset (powered by Lumus transparent waveguide displays) that superimposes CT scans and other images over a patient’s body, helping surgeons map an operation without looking away.

January 2, 2019

The State of Augmented Reality – Interview with Robert Scoble

We had such a great time discussing the future of Augmented Reality.

December 18, 2018

Lumus will be at CES 2019 – The Global Stage for Innovation

We are excited to be at this year’s CES conference in Las Vegas Jan 8-11.

August 13, 2018

3 Unexpected Ways You’ll Soon Find AR/VR in Healthcare

Medical technology is changing faster than it ever has before, and it’s now clear Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality will play a role in the standard care we receive.

9 Powerful Real-World Applications Of Augmented Reality (AR) Today

The growth of augmented reality applications in recent years can be attributed to solutions that allow consumers to visualize products and imagine what it might feel like to own the product or experience the service before actually purchasing it.

Want to make the most of AR? Here’s how consumers are actually using it.

Many brands are beginning to understand the definition and impact of augmented reality.

Facebook, Apple, Snap and Others Are Already Monetizing Augmented Reality

Though it’s still early days for the technology, tech companies large and small are finding ways to profit from augmented reality that have nothing to do with selling headsets.

5 Best Augmented Reality Use Cases

Interest in augmented reality (AR) is exploding as innovators explore the business relevance and roles AR can play in workforce enablement and customer experience and interaction.

Are You Ready To Use Augmented Reality To Train Your Workforce?

Corporate training is evolving, with powerful tools, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), becoming the norm.

Is Facebook winning the augmented reality war?

At F8’s keynote recently, Facebook showed a “floating heart” selfie filter – signifying their next advancements of AR experiences for their users.

From AR to VR: After games, what’s the next big market for ‘extended reality?’

Microsoft, Google, and Apple are leading the way in AR, VR and extended reality.

Augmented Reality Heading To 3 Billion Devices, $85 Billion Revenue

With the advances of AR, the future holds significant promise for hardware sales, ad spending, app store revenue and location-based entertainment, and the largest AR business model is likely to be e-commerce.

What Is Customer Experience Technology?

It used to be that customer experience technology meant only CRM, or customer relationship management, however, there has been an explosion of customer technology that is changing the customer experience.

Augmented reality apps are seeing fast success on iOS

Apps that are using Apple’s ARKit have been installed more than 13 million times since it was released on September 19, up from the 3 million installs recorded in October 2017.

Explainer: How AR Lets us overlay a Digital World

Other than gaming and entertainment, how else can AR be used?

Augmented Reality Trends

Augmented Reality has reached an inflection point in time for AR to take the spotlight!

AR is Changing the Game for Oil and Gas

AR is expanding way beyond gaming.

How AR will Transform Travel, Healthcare and Construction

With the global AR market predicted to be worth approximately $133 billion by 2021, augmented reality is undoubtedly one of the most exciting technological innovations around.

U.S. Troops are Testing Augmented Reality to be Ready by 2019

Lumus AR displays can be found in the US Air Force helping their pilots.

5 Ways Augmented Reality Is Disrupting the Supply Chain

Nearly everything we eat, wear and buy moves through a supply chain.

Get ready to don your AR glasses, eventually coming to a nose near you

According to ABI Research, there will be 32.7 million total smart glasses shipments in 2022, growing from 225 thousand in 2017.

Daqri Worksense lets workers tag and scan their environments in AR

Daqri Worksense is a productivity suite of AR applications that enables the most common AR tasks, helping organizations improve existing business processes.

Augmented Reality Marketing: Three Companies That Have Done It Best

As innovation has made AR much more accessible to the masses, brands have taken notice.

What is the future of AR and Mixed Reality?

How much will augmented reality (AR) grow in 2018?

New AR App Features a Cool Optical Illusions

For some time now, several of the best-known tech brands have been championing the benefits of augmented reality.

Divergent Realities: Augmented vs Virtual Reality

What’s the Difference Between Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?

January 1, 2017

Augmented Reality Companies: Know the Major Players in AR

The early gamers of the 1970’s could never image the hyperrealism of today’s games. All it takes is a quick comparison between the classic game of Pong and today’s Tennis on the Wii.

December 27, 2016

Why We’ll All Be Wearing Our Next Computer: The Future Of AR/ VR

Pokemon Go is just the beginning.

December 12, 2016

Lumus at CES 2016

My first CES was an experience. I think I maybe saw 1/100th of what there was to see.

December 8, 2016

Lumus at CES 2016

My first CES was an experience. I think I maybe saw 1/100th of what there was to see.

December 8, 2016

An Interview With AR/ VR Thought Leaders: Brian Wallace From Nowsourcing

Virtual reality and augmented reality have moved at a blistering pace, and the buzz around these technologies is rising. Is this the year that AR finally makes its breakthrough as a mainstream technology?