Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score2626

Rokid has opened its first global flagship store at Shop 323A, 3/F, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, Hong Kong, billed as the world's first unstaffed self-service AI glasses experience store. Customers can try the latest AI glasses on site and pick up products themselves using in-store robotic arms. Rokid describes itself as the world's No. 1 display AI glasses brand.

Vuzix@VuzixOptics industryOptics and AIAI score3939

#OCPSummit26 has wrapped. Thanks to everyone who met with Vuzix and discussed Causeway™, our optical interconnect evaluation platform for AI computing, which demonstrated 19,200 parallel optical channels over a range of about 30 mm. Next stop: PECC Summit, October 20-21. $VUZI

Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score4444

Rokid's first unstaffed self-service AI glasses experience store has officially opened in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰👓 Today, we held the opening ceremony for our first global flagship store at Harbour City. Special guests Carlos Chan and Benjamin Yuen attended the ribbon-cutting and experienced Rokid Glasses together with guests, partners and community members.

XREAL 👓@XREAL_GlobalOptics industryOptics and AIPicksAI score6363

XREAL has launched the XREAL 1 Pro+, improving brightness, 3D performance and wearing comfort over the XREAL One Pro. The new model delivers 1,200 nits of perceived brightness and supports AI HDR, with native REAL 3D conversion at up to 60 fps. It features a redesigned nose pad, and the X1 chip keeps the virtual screen stable during head movement. It is currently sold only through the official store.

Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score2424

Great to see our smart glasses helping bring on-device native VLMs into real industrial workflows. This is exactly the value an open ecosystem can unlock: models, chips and devices working together to create real-world value. 😎 https://twitter.com/STL_AI/status/2110219163767853414

XREAL 👓@XREAL_GlobalOptics industryOptics and AIAI score3939

XREAL AURA has been named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026. It brings immersive spatial experiences to lightweight glasses, with a 70° field of view, hand tracking and spatial anchoring. A lightweight wired spatial computing glasses powered by Android XR. Read TIME's coverage: https://t.co/KJnFBypy2O Pre-order XREAL Aura now: https://t.co/DOYECoE5Qa #XREALAURA #AndroidXR #SpatialComputing Android XR is a trademark of Google LLC.

Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score4343

Rokid's first global flagship store has officially opened in Hong Kong! 🇭🇰👓 It is also the world's first self-service AI glasses experience store. You can try Rokid Glasses and Rokid Style at your own pace, then watch a robotic arm in the store retrieve the product you selected. Come to Harbour City to discover a new way to experience AI glasses. 📍 Shop 323A, Level 3, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, Hong Kong #Rokid #RokidGlasses #RokidStyle #AIGlasses #WearableAI #HongKong

Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score3636

Good ideas rarely wait until you find somewhere to write them down. Rokid Style lets you record thoughts or set reminders by voice, keeping inspiration close at hand while you stay focused on the moment. 👓 #Rokid #RokidStyle #AIGlasses #WearableAI

Lumentum@LumentumOptics industryOptics and AIAI score4848

Before October 15, visit booth B34 at the 2026 OCP Global Summit to see a rack-scale optical PCIe link demonstration featuring Astera's Scorpio smart fabric switch, @Lumentum's 1060 nm VCSEL-based optical interconnect solution, and Corning's multimode fiber connectivity solution. 🔗 https://investor.lumentum.com/financial-news-releases/news-details/2026/Lumentum-Astera-Labs-and-Corning-to-Demonstrate-1060-nm-VCSEL-Based-PCIe-over-Optics-for-AI-Rack-Scale-Connectivity-at-the-2026-OCP-Global-Summit/default.aspx

Coherent Corp.@CoherentCorpOptics industryOptics and AIAI score2525

Coherent at #OCPGlobalSummit Join Dr. Chris Kocot of Coherent on October 14 for the presentation "Slow and Wide 12.8T VCSEL Solutions." October 14 | 1:50 PM San Jose, California Learn more: https://2026ocpglobal.fnvirtual.app/a/schedule/ #OCPGlobalSummit

XREAL 👓@XREAL_GlobalOptics and AIAI score1818

Brighter, more immersive spatial experiences are on the way. Built on everything you already love, plus more, to make every moment better. Get ready to feel the difference. Click the link to subscribe for exclusive news and a chance to win an XREAL Eye for free! https://t.co/0i6kAQ7mDU #XREAL #ARGlasses #SpatialDisplay

Rokid Global@RokidGlobalOptics and AIAI score3939

Rokid brought display-equipped AI glasses to the Tesla community at X Takeover 2026. 👓 They were showcased at Giga Texas during the event.

Vuzix@VuzixOptics industryOptics and AIAI score5656

Vuzix offers a new route for AI optical interconnects: the company will showcase its Causeway waveguide optical interconnect evaluation platform at two industry events.

Hamamatsu and MEETOPTICS Partner to Integrate Scientific AI Chat

Hamamatsu Photonics and MEETOPTICS have announced a partnership to exclusively integrate MEETOPTICS' scientific AI chat tool into Hamamatsu's product portfolio, helping users find photonic devices.

XPANCEO partners with Contamac to advance AR contact lenses using FDA-cleared ophthalmic materials

Smart contact lens company XPANCEO has partnered with Contamac to advance the development of AR contact lenses using materials already used in FDA-cleared ophthalmic devices.

SIOM Uses Improved YOLOv8-seg for Intelligent Laser Spot Analysis in High-Power Laser Facilities

The Joint Laboratory for High Power Laser and Physics at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) has proposed a laser spot analysis system based on an improved YOLOv8-seg to meet the need for rapid, precise alignment of optics along the full chain of high-power laser facilities, and has completed experimental validation.

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics Proposes New Framework for Underwater Optical Docking of AUVs

A team led by Guojun Wu at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics has proposed PGF-ULB, an underwater optical beacon detection and localization framework combining physics guidance and geometric constraints, for AUV optical docking in complex underwater environments.

Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics Advances Multidimensional Multiplexed Optical Computing

A team led by Peng Xie at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics has made progress in multidimensional multiplexed optical computing, improving the parallelism of optical computing.

AIOFM Proposes GeoAdapt and Freq-LoRA to Enhance Intelligent Sensing of Aerial Targets in Ground-Based Optical Remote Sensing

A team at the Optoelectronics Center of the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has published two results in Remote Sensing, proposing the lightweight keypoint localization framework GeoAdapt and the frequency-domain low-rank adaptation segmentation method Freq-LoRA for aerial target sensing in ground-based optical remote sensing. GeoAdapt has only 5.95M parameters and achieves PCK@0.05D of 89.3%; Freq-LoRA requires only 559K trainable parameters and reaches a mean intersection-over-union of 0.904 across five simulated weather datasets, achieving 96.1% of full fine-tuning performance.

SIOM Publishes Review of Machine Learning in Inertial Confinement Fusion

The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has published a review summarizing the applications, challenges and outlook of machine learning in inertial confinement fusion.

SIOM Develops Intelligent Distributed Control System for Laser Wakefield Accelerator

The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) has developed an intelligent distributed control system for a laser wakefield accelerator.

Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics Dual-Modal Neuromorphic Device Uses Optical Signals to Boost Machine Olfaction Gas Classification Accuracy

A team led by researcher Li Shaojuan at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics has developed a vision-olfaction dual-modal neuromorphic device based on a MoS2/SnS2 floating-gate heterostructure. The device responds to both optical and gas signals and fuses them at the device level. The results were published in Advanced Materials. The device has an active area of 148 µm² and static power consumption of 3.4 µW. With the optical modality introduced, classification accuracy for 12 gases rose from 52.24% to 98.27%, while recognition accuracy for 51 gas mixtures reached 89.32%.

Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics Accelerates Combinatorial Optimization at Large Spin Scale

The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics has made progress in optically accelerated solving of large-spin-scale combinatorial optimization problems.

SIOM Reports Progress in Optoelectronic Neural Synapses

The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics has made new progress in research on optoelectronic neural synaptic devices.

AIOFM Develops AKAN Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Algorithm for POSP Polarization Scanner on Gaofen-5B

The Optical Remote Sensing Center of the Anhui Institute of Optics and Mechanics published a paper in IEEE TGRS proposing an attention-enhanced Kolmogorov-Arnold network (AKAN) method to retrieve aerosol optical depth from POSP polarization observations by the Gaofen-5B satellite. The team built more than 240,000 matched samples using AERONET ground-based data. The model achieved a coefficient of determination R² of 0.9336 and a root mean square error of 0.0492, with 94.25% of results falling within the expected error range. SHAP analysis showed that the sensitive bands and scattering angle features identified by the model are broadly consistent with radiative transfer principles.

XREAL AURA Opens for Pre-Order as Android XR Debuts at AWE 2026

Google showcased Android XR ecosystem progress at AWE 2026, and XREAL AURA opened for pre-order.

AIOFM Develops Digital Hydrogel Fluorescence-Enhanced Microsphere System for Amplification-Free Relative Quantification of CRISPR Nucleic Acids

The Optoelectronics Center of the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics published a paper in Analytical Chemistry describing CrisprDEM, a digital hydrogel fluorescence-enhanced microsphere detection system based on CRISPR/Cas12a that enables amplification-free relative quantification of nucleic acids. The system uses hydrogel microspheres to enrich fluorescent reporter molecules, boosting the fluorescence signal by a factor of about 1,000. A microfluidic chip then spreads the microspheres into a monolayer for imaging, and a K-means algorithm distinguishes positive from negative microspheres, with the proportion of positive microspheres used for quantification.

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics Reports Series of Advances in Silicon Photonic Interconnect Chips

Teams led by Wang Binhao and Zhang Wenfu at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics have made a series of advances in silicon-based photonic interconnect chips.

Google: Smart Glasses to Launch This Fall, with New Frames from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker

On May 19, Google unveiled new frames for Android XR smart glasses from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, set to launch this fall.

Theoretical Breakthrough in Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy

The State Key Laboratory of Ultrafast Optics Science and Technology has established a prior-free digital reconstruction theory in the field of FPM.

AI and Optical Micromanipulation Enable Precise Microparticle Transport

The Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics and Northwest A&F University have combined AI with optical micromanipulation to achieve precise microparticle transport.

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics Makes Progress in Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

Wang Quan's team at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics has made new progress in zero-shot anomaly detection and localization.

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics Advances Medical Time-Series Signal Processing and Brain-Computer Interfaces

The Biomedical Spectroscopy Laboratory at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics has made progress in medical time-series signal processing and brain-computer interfaces.

Guangzai Technology CO2 LiDAR Used to Validate High-Resolution Urban Carbon Emission Model

Guangzai Technology, an incubated company of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, collaborated with the University of Cambridge, Southeast University and others to publish a paper in Sustainable Cities and Society, proposing SCE-Model, a spatiotemporal carbon emission model optimized by machine learning and validated by LiDAR. The model output is highly consistent with coherent differential absorption LiDAR observations (R² = 0.79; ±5 ppm), enabling hourly, block-level carbon emission mapping.

Galaxy XR New Features and a Preview of Future Devices

Google unveiled new features for the Galaxy XR headset and previewed future devices at The Android Show.

Liutong Photonics Integrated Sensing and Communications Equipment Powers Digital Track at the 15th National Games

Guangdong Telecom, Sun Yat-sen University, and the Su Bingtian Speed Research and Training Center, among others, used integrated sensing and communications equipment and a digital twin system from Liutong Photonics, a company incubated by the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, to build a digital track based on communication optical fiber and a smart transportation demonstration project around the venue. The system captures vibration signals through hundreds of meters of fiber laid beneath the track and uses AI algorithms to calculate stride length, ground contact time, and other parameters, while the traffic sensing network extracts vehicle speed, trajectories, and traffic density from urban communication fiber cables.

Russell Center at Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Achieves Continuous Hollow-Core Fiber Drawing Beyond 15 Kilometers, with Minimum Loss Below 0.3 dB/km

The Russell Center at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has made progress in hollow-core microstructured fiber drawing, achieving continuous drawing lengths exceeding 15 kilometers with minimum loss below 0.3 dB/km in the telecommunications band. Related industrialization is being advanced by Xinkong Guanglian (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., established by the Russell Center, targeting high-speed interconnects for intelligent computing centers and 6G communication networks. The team said this validates the feasibility of long-distance hollow-core fiber drawing and lays the groundwork for mass production of ultra-low-loss, ultra-long-distance hollow-core microstructured fiber.

Aiou Optics Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan A+ Round

Aiou Optics, a company incubated by the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, has completed an A+ financing round of tens of millions of yuan, jointly invested by the Daohe Tuojing Chip Chain Fund and Juntong Capital. The funds will mainly go toward product development and capacity expansion to meet demand from the domestic semiconductor equipment industry for high-end lasers. Aiou Optics' intelligent stabilized lasers target applications including laser debonding, silicon wafer stealth dicing, glass through-hole processing, and display panel processing.

Samsung Launches First Android XR Headset, Galaxy XR, Priced at $1,799

Samsung has launched Galaxy XR, its first device based on Android XR. Google said it integrates Gemini, which can understand what users see and perform actions across apps, with voice, gesture and eye-tracking interaction.

Liutong Photonics SC-DAS-1550-FA Integrated Sensing and Communications Device Monitors Typhoon Hagiwara via Submarine Cable

During Typhoon Hagiwara, Liutong Photonics used the SC-DAS-1550-FA integrated sensing and communications device to turn the submarine communication cable of the Guishan Offshore Wind Farm into a distributed acoustic sensor array, monitoring in real time ocean waves and currents, as well as the impact, vibration and deformation of wind turbine foundations, towers and submarine cables.