If new {hardware} from Magic Leap was on your AR bingo card, congratulations, right now is your day. Seems the once-buzzy AR firm is again in a giant approach with a brand new prototype of AR smart glasses that is being developed in tandem with Google, the tech firm that additionally made big promises with AR glasses and which also flopped hard. Whereas there isn’t a ton of information on the prototype, there are some preliminary photos, and so they appear to be what you’d anticipate from a contemporary pair of sensible glasses with a show, which is to say, loads like the Meta Ray-Ban Display.
Magic Leap is partnering with expertise leaders to speed up their AR glasses roadmap via deep experience and applied sciences that ship visuals that are steady, crisp, and clear. This week at @FIIKSA , @magicleap and @Google are unveiling an AR glasses prototype constructed as a… pic.twitter.com/05bQCt0gQn
— Magic Leap (@magicleap) October 29, 2025
Whereas the new {hardware} might really feel prefer it’s coming from left discipline, Magic Leap and Google really announced a partnership last year, which they’re now renewing, given Google’s pointed curiosity in XR {hardware} and software program. The details are nonetheless sparse, however most likely the most telling part of Magic Leap’s announcement is this one:
By combining Magic Leap’s waveguides and optics with Google’s Raxium microLED mild engine, the two corporations are growing show applied sciences that make all-day, wearable AR extra achievable. Magic Leap’s system providers combine show {hardware} to guarantee visuals are steady, crisp, and clear.
Seems like, whereas Magic Leap is focusing on the waveguides (the display screen inside the sensible glasses), Google is focusing on software program, which isn’t surprising given the launch of Android XR, Google’s AR-focused platform that’s getting used on new headsets like Samsung’s Galaxy XR. What is possibly somewhat surprising is the incontrovertible fact that Magic Leap has entered the AR chat given its historical past of, effectively… failing to try this in varied methods.
Whereas Magic Leap was valued at an estimated $4.5 billion in 2016, the firm really solely ever put out two actual AR headsets. First, there was the Magic Leap One in 2018, which was met with fairly widespread disappointment, and regardless of making its approach to retail through AT&T, by no means achieved any sort of mainstream success. The follow-up in 2022 was the $3,300 Magic Leap 2, which was much more area of interest, with an enterprise focus, and, to nobody’s shock, flopped equally as onerous as the firm’s first endeavor. Magic Leap stopped supporting its first headset altogether practically a 12 months in the past in December 2024.
This, as you might have gleaned, is not a stellar monitor document, which ought to provide you with some pause on whether or not Magic Leap can actually make issues work this time round. That being stated, regardless of Magic Leap’s failure to ship, a lot of corporations with much less expertise and missing the assets of Google are managing to make AR glasses work, so possibly this is the second Magic Leap has been ready for. I wouldn’t put cash on it, however possibly, simply possibly, there’s an opportunity.
Unsurprisingly, there’s no launch date or something like that but, however Magic Leap plans to debut the AR glasses at FII, a convention for future tech that is at present ongoing in Saudi Arabia. What do you assume? Are you taking the (magic) leap of religion this time?
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