
The main teardown starts with the front of the INMO Go’s, by removing the front of the faceplate (and the attached magnetic shade) and revealing the two lenses (including our waveguide in the right eye), a long flex cable connecting the two temples and an interesting cavity right above the nose bridge. The space here…

Our next teardown is the INMO Go AR Glasses, one of the first glasses to truly tackle an AR design without severely light-lossy optical elements used to project an image like the display glasses from Rokid, Xreal, and many others. This is the first time we are seeing a microLED display in one of these…

[Note: this is updated a month later than intended… you can thank Ron and Kasha at microLED Connect for the delay!] We’ll start this tear-down with the outer coverings around the nose bridge which houses the two static-tint front lenses. The lenses are likely polycarbonate, but we don’t have any clear material markings here to…

Our next teardown is the Rokid Max AR Glasses, despite chronologically being one of the earlier display glasses on the market. It’s likely fair to say a few of the brands we’ve already looked at (aka Viture…) took heavy inspiration from this initial design. This is most apparent with the diopter adjustment mechanism, as well…

Two of the more important metrics I’ve wanted to quantify for display glasses are the power draw of these headsets, as well as the actual display emission spectra which tells us quite a bit about the overall color performance and content reproducibility of the displays – below is a (not so brief) intro to how…

We’ll start this tear-down with the outer face-plate which houses two front lenses, likely polycarbonate with some graded tinting towards the brow. The plate itself seems to be the same AZ91D magnesium alloy that the outer halves of the temple are made of, but the markings are not easily found anywhere on the piece. The…

Our next teardown is the Viture Pro XR Glasses, a set of glasses that’s have been out for about a year. While the display and optics solution are similar to almost all other glasses of this form factor, there are two main differentiation points at a price point very similar to our previous teardowns (<$300):…

While we’ve already looked at the Air 3S’ optics here, given the extensive teardown we had to do to access the lens and display modules I thought it was prudent to take a look at all of the other components that make up the glasses. To start, we can take a look at the outer…

The second video in our series of XR headset teardowns is the RayNeo Air 3S – this is a much newer unit, having launched in April of this year. I wanted to grab a pair and dig into the display & optics hardware because of the impressive price point that RayNeo was able to achieve…

I’ve been an avid reader of Karl Guttag‘s excellent blog covering the latest and greatest in AR and VR optics, and I thought it would be interesting to actually get my hands on some of these products and take a peek at how mass production units actually implement the optical paths we always see in…