Lumus showed a 70 degree full-color waveguide at AWE 2026, more than three times the roughly 20 degree field of view of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, and made with regular glass instead of silicon carbide.
Lumus made the lens inside the Meta Ray-Ban Display, so when they show what comes next it’s worth paying attention. The prototype I looked through hit a 70 degree field of view in full color, at a time when a lot of display glasses are still green text only. It’s the difference between glancing at your watch and looking at a monitor. They also pulled it off with regular glass rather than the exotic silicon carbide Meta needed for Orion, which means thinner, lighter, and cheaper to manufacture at scale. The catch is time: glasses makers take years to turn optics like this into a shipping product, so what you can buy today runs lens tech that’s already a few years old.
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So the optics are ready. The industry is the bottleneck.
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