Smart-Glasses News Source Watchlist¶

Last reviewed: 2026-08-05

The weekly sweep starts here and expands outward. Primary sources establish what an organization claims; independent reporting and community evidence test those claims.

Manufacturer and platform newsrooms¶

Components, standards, and regulation¶

Qualcomm newsroom
ams OSRAM newsroom
Bluetooth SIG
FCC Equipment Authorization
Wi-Fi Alliance product finder
USB-IF
NVIDIA newsroom
Google Play and Apple App Store for companion-app versions and operators

Research¶

arXiv search: smart glasses
arXiv search: augmented-reality glasses
ACM Digital Library
IEEE Xplore
Nature search
Google Scholar
Conference streams: CHI, UIST, ISMAR, SIGGRAPH, AWE, SPIE AR/VR/MR, Display Week, CES, Google I/O, Meta Connect, and developer conferences.

Independent reporting and analysis¶

Independent coverage should add testing, sourcing, market data, correction, or context. Do not preserve copied press-release summaries merely to inflate volume.

Community and preservation routes¶

GitHub searches for model names, companion apps, SDKs, firmware, BLE, protocol, teardown, and recovery
Reddit model/vendor communities, treated as community reports
Discord, Telegram, QQ, and forum discoveries when publicly accessible and attributable
Internet Archive and Wayback Machine
APK metadata and lawful archival routes
Retail listings and manual mirrors, labeled commercial/secondary

Search patterns¶

Use combinations of:

"smart glasses" release notes
"AI glasses" firmware update
"AR glasses" SDK GitHub
<model> manual OR FCC OR Bluetooth
<companion app> APK OR privacy OR permissions
site:arxiv.org "smart glasses"
site:github.com <model> firmware
<manufacturer> discontinued OR recall OR security
Chinese-language model numbers, company names, and app identifiers where relevant.