This time,Metathe possibilities of smart glasses have been pushed a step further.
Beijing Time 9 Month 24 Day,Meta Connect 2026 opened in California, USA. In this launch, personal AI Agent Muse officially evolved into AI glasses, making them not just your“eyes and ears”, but also a AI partner capable of understanding you, remembering for you, and handling tasks on your behalf.
As the key terminal carrying this capability,Meta also introduced several new products:Meta VR Glasses integrating display, perception, and interaction in a lightweight form of approximately 100 grams, while achieving greater computing power through an external compute box;Ray-Ban Meta(Gen 3) further upgraded imaging, battery life, and AI interaction;Ray-Ban Meta Audiodirectly removed the camera, integrating 43 grams lightweight body with AI and audio experience, offering up to 12 hours of battery life.
From AI intelligent agents to AI glasses, and then to VR devices, Meta is transforming glasses from merely“seeing the world”to“understanding the world and participating in the world”, exploring more possibilities as the next-generation computing entry point.
Figure1 Muse,Meta's personal AI agent (Image source:: Expresso Company)
Figure2 Meta VRGlasses (Image source:: Meta)
Figure3 Meta AI Audio Glasses (Image source:: Meta)
Figure4 Mata Ray-Ban Gen3 (Image source:: YouTube)
As a domestic enterprise deeply engaged in the wearable analog chip sector, awinic solutions currently cover over XREAL,Meta, ByteDance, and Rokid. With extensive brand coverage and full-link chip capabilities, it is hailed by the industry as the 90% of mainstream AI glass brands including Rayneo,“AI Prince of Glasses”. Multiple self-developed chips are also applied in this Meta series of new products, laying a solid hardware foundation for the miniaturization, low power consumption, and high-reliability operation of terminal devices.
01Full-link chip control covering diverse smart glasses requirements
As AI glasses evolve from single-mode audio interaction toward display, visual perception, and richer intelligent interactions, their product forms continue to advance, imposing higher demands on chip integration, power control, and space occupancy. Addressing the needs of smart glasses in power management, signal protection, interaction control, status indication, and audio processing, awinic has formed a matrix of chip solutions covering multiple key links, including load switches, signal protection,GPIO expansion,LED drivers, audio processing, and other components, providing underlying chip support for smart glasses from power and signals to interaction and audio.
Facing smart glasses products with different forms and functions, awinic can provide modular and flexibly combinable chip solutions, helping smart glasses achieve higher integration and richer functional experiences within limited space and power constraints.
Figure5 AIGlasses Application Block Diagram
Figure6 awinicAIGlasses Solution Product List
02 Multiple chips deployed, covering diverse smart glasses applications
This Meta new generation of smart glasses incorporates multiple self-developed awinic chips, providing chip support for different functional modules. Regarding shooting privacy, althoughMetahas begun experimenting with removing cameras, the convenient shooting function remains crucial for manyAIglasses users. As a key solution for shooting privacy, the shooting indicator light is standard equipment forMeta AIglasses. awinic's4channel breathing light driver supports white shooting indicator lights on a single chip + charging indicatorRGBlight driver, perfectly adapted forAIglasses applications.
Figure7 Typical Application Diagram of Four-Channel Breathing Light Driver
In external computing solutions, adopting an external computing box significantly reduces the weight and heat generation of theVRheadset portion, making the quality and reliability of data transmission viaUSBcables particularly important. awinic'sUSB 2.0interface expansion+protection switch not only features a high-bandwidth switching switch but also provides high voltage resistance andOVPprotection functions, safeguardingUSBport safety.
Figure8 USB 2.0Interface Expansion+Protection Switch Typical Application Diagram
VR The increase in functional modules of head-mounted displays also increases the demand for the number of control interfaces on the main control chip,GPIO expansion chips can assist in completing the IO control of various functional modules without requiring an upgrade to the main controller specifications.
Figure9 GPIOTypical Application Diagram of Expansion Chip
Furthermore, power consumption control has always been a top priority for various head-mounted display devices. Load switches featuren A-level ultra-low quiescent current and can control the startup/and shutdown sequence, ensuring normal system operation, making them excellent assistants for system power management.
Figure 10 Typical Application Diagram of Single-Channel Load Switch
03 Empowering the Edge, Jointly Promoting the Upgrade of the Smart Glasses Industry
Looking to the future,AI large models continue to move towards the edge, and smart glasses and mixed reality devices are accelerating to become important human-computer interaction portals following mobile phones. Terminal products will continue to evolve towards being thinner and lighter, having longer battery life, and enabling more natural multimodal interaction, which also places higher demands on the integration, power consumption control, and package size of analog chips.
awinic will continue to deeply cultivate mixed-signal chip products in the smart wearable field. With the strength of domestically developed analog chips, we will deeply collaborate with global terminal customers to continuously empower the next generation of smart glasses and mixed reality hardware, integrating smart experiences into the daily lives of more people.
Just as Meta CEO Zuckerberg depicted in his opening——Future for everyone.
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