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The week in smart glasses
The topics the wire covered most, Sep 7 to Sep 13 — ranked by stories and outletsMeta
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Untranslated, newest firstUpcoming events
The next dates on the calendar — the full list holds the restConferenceDreamforce 2026Salesforce fills Moscone Center for three days on the agentic enterprise, and what puts it on this calendar is Agentic Enterprise City: Salesforce says Snap SPECS run an agentic concierge inside it, taking visitors from discovery through support. A consumer AR pair working an enterprise show floor rather than a launch stage. The programme also streams free on Salesforce plus for anyone not in San Francisco.San Francisco, USA · Online
ConferenceSPECS Launch 2026Announced in newsroom.snap.com: “See for Yourself: Watch the SPECS Launch on September 16”. Programme and registration are on the organiser's page.Los Angeles, USA · Online
Competitions & grants
The next application deadlines — hackathons, contests and funding to enterHackathon
Immersive Insiders
XRCC next.app HackathonA three-week online build aimed squarely at smart glasses, with team matching in the first week and mentor reviews through the sprint. A panel picks 20 finalist teams, who demo in Berlin in October with the travel fund covering the trip. The organizers pitch it at mobile developers as much as XR ones, so no headset work is assumed. Pre-registration is open now and the full sign-up portal is still marked as coming.
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Hack the North
Hack the North 2026Canada's largest student hackathon, 36 hours at the University of Waterloo. Snap has lent Spectacles and run an AR track in past years — check this year's sponsor list before you plan a build around the hardware.
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Latest from each maker's press desk and coverageMetaMeta glasses
CoverageThreads Apps Arrived On Quest & Meta Ray-Ban DisplayUploadVRCoverageThe first images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked — and there's a reason it's so thin and lightTechRadarCoverageMeta's Next-gen MR Headset Appears to Have Leaked Ahead of ConnectRoad to VRCoverageThanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening as you go about your day — but Apple may be risking a Meta Glasses-style backlashTechRadar
All Meta →GoogleAndroid XR
CoverageGalápagos: The Last Eden Is An Android XR Interactive Wildlife ExperienceUploadVRCoverageNew Trailer Reveals Project Hail Mary: Journey Among The Stars GameplayUploadVRCoverageGoogle Reportedly Working on New Live Translation Feature for Android XRRoad to VRCoverageGoogle is working on a big Live Translate upgrade for Android XRAndroid Authority
All Google →AppleApple glasses
CoverageApple Watch can now rewind your conversations, and that’s kinda creepyAndroid AuthorityCoverageApple will be launching its first pair of smart glasses next year: Here’s what’s coming9to5MacCoverageA new patent filing shows that Apple wants to address smart glasses privacy violationsApple World TodayCoverageFitness+ and fitness tracking could come to a future version of Apple’s smart glassesApple World Today
All Apple →SnapSpecs
CoverageAI/XR Beats: Anthropic Revenue Surges, Snap Takes AR Long ViewAR InsiderCoverageSnap Q2 Earnings: CEO Says Its AR Glasses May Not Go Mainstream For YearsUC TodayCoverageSnap CEO addresses Specs preorder interest during Q2 earnings callMashableCoverageSnap to Show In-depth Look at ‘Specs’ AR Glasses in September EventRoad to VR
All Snap →ChallengersXreal · Rokid · Samsung
RayNeoRayNeo's iO camera-free smart glasses boast an AI-agnostic version of the Siri Recap feature coming to Apple Watch — and I’m not sure if I love or hate itTechRadarEven RealitiesEven Realities G2 smart glasses show the limits of speaker- and camera-free framesTechRadarRayNeoI tried the RayNeo GT Max, and they're easily the most comfortable AR glasses I've worn yetTomSamsungSamsung might've started racing ahead to Android XR glasses with a color displayAndroid Central
All Challengers →Industry news
The market, the supply chain and the rules — stories no single maker ownsRelease dates, upcoming models and the release clock now live in the buying guide.Buying guide →