Lumus Z-30 waveguide is the foundation for AR glasses.
Lumus Z-30 waveguide is the foundation for AR glasses.
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Lumus and Schott aim to make lightweight AR glasses into mainstream products

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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If you take a look at the Lumus Z-30 Optical Engine for augmented reality glasses, it looks pretty much like an ordinary pair of glasses.

It’s lightweight, yet it features an AR screen based on the Z-Lens 2D waveguide architecture with a small 30-degree field of view. This allows it to fit seamlessly within standard glasses sizes, offering major functional and aesthetic benefits. They’re a step down from the more powerful Z-50, but they serve the purpose of fitting inside an ordinary pair of glasses. This progress is an example of how the tech is moving forward to something practical for mainstream uses.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.