A man in smart glasses looks across a gallery of ceramics as colour halos surround them. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.

XR / Headsets and devices / Smart glasses

Smart glasses for augmented reality at work

Augmented reality, hands free: a heads-up display for the person on the floor or in the field, no headset to put on.

In a real room

The lightest way to add a layer

A guide in a gallery, a technician at an assembly bay, a grower in a field: the real world stays, and a small display adds to it.

A man in smart glasses looks across a library rotunda as colour ribbons trace the shelves. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.
Colour ribbons trace the shelves of a rotunda.
Blue bands cross a wheat field, seen by a woman in smart glasses. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.
Blue bands cross a wheat field, seen in glasses.
A maker examines a glass form above the workshop bench.
A maker examines a glass form.

Programs

Which programs run on it

Glasses suit the moment after training: a prompt, a step, a route, delivered while the hands stay on the job.

Two guides stand beneath route arrows. A first person VR training scenario for what is augmented reality, seen through the headset.
Guides stand beneath route arrows.

Prompts, steps and wayfinding for the person already at work

An induction that walks a new starter through a site, a knowledge twin whose answer appears in the eyeline, a museum guide’s cue card. Rehearsing the conversation itself stays in a headset or a browser.

A technician works beside assembly cues. A first person VR training scenario for what is augmented reality, seen through the headset.
A technician works beside assembly cues.

What it does in a real room

The families differ in what they show. Ray-Ban Meta carries a camera and an assistant with no display; Meta Ray-Ban Display, XREAL, Rokid and Even Realities each put a small screen or heads-up display in the lens. Even Realities states "up to 1.5 days on a single charge" for the G1.

Augmented reality at PTR covers what the added layer does for practice.

The fleet

What a fleet needs

Most glasses pair with a phone, so the fleet question is the phone fleet and the accounts behind it.

A learner and instructor display AR markers. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.
A learner and instructor display AR markers.

Phones to pair with, and prescriptions to fit

Prescription lenses, a charging case per wearer and the wifi a site allows are the planning items; headsets and equipment lists the IT questions, and governance covers a camera on a face in a workplace.

A museum guide practises directing attention towards a gallery sculpture.
A museum guide directs attention to a sculpture.

Who chooses it

Museums and galleries, field crews, and service teams whose people cannot stop to look at a phone: the layer has to arrive while the work continues.

Government and public sector and mobile experiences describe the fit from their side.

What PTR ships

What PTR ships on it

PTR builds augmented reality for the phone in the pocket and for glasses where a program has them.

Three people display a guidance arrow over a pipe rig. A VR training scenario for what is augmented reality.
A guidance arrow over a pipe rig.

Augmented reality layers, built for the device in use

The AR Business Card, PTR’s live augmented reality build, runs on a phone today; an XR fast build takes the same layer to glasses when a program owns them. Phones and tablets covers the widest-reach route.

Compare it with

Sibling devices, each on its own page

A tablet shows coloured shapes among kitchen objects. A rapid prototyping scenario for fast builds, from idea to working product.
Phones and tablets: the device in the pocket
 A colour passthrough view: the real room kept, digital panels added to it.
Android XR: mixed reality by default
 A wheelchair user gestures in a scenario.
Apple Vision Pro: the room kept in view
 A facilitator adjusts a headset for a seated learner in a workshop room.
Every headset and device, compared

Questions

What do buyers ask about Smart glasses?

Short answers, each with a link to the page that answers in full.

Two people examine a form and its shadow. A VR training scenario for what is augmented reality.
Examining a form and its shadow.

Can staff rehearse a conversation in smart glasses?

Glasses show a prompt or a step; they do not put a counterpart in the room. A rehearsal with a simulated person runs in a headset or with an AI roleplay partner in a browser.

People observe an overlay near a marker. A VR training scenario for what is augmented reality.
An overlay near a marker.

Which glasses does PTR build for?

The pairs a program owns. PTR agrees suitable hardware with you when a build is planned; What is augmented reality explains what each display class can show.

A digital artwork layer anchored on a real wall.
A digital artwork anchored on a real wall.

Is a phone a better start than glasses?

A phone reaches everyone from the start, and the same layer moves to glasses later. Phones and tablets covers that route.

A participant discusses an XR rehearsal with a facilitator.
A participant and facilitator talk after a run.

Bring us the moment on the floor

Tell us the job, the place it happens and what a person needs to see while doing it. Talk to us or book a time with our team.

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Sources

Each manufacturer statement at its source.

A man in smart glasses looks across a gallery of ceramics as colour halos surround them. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.

Even Realities G1

Even Realities

A heads-up micro LED display in a pair of glasses; battery in the maker’s words.

A maker examines a glass form above the workshop bench.

Meta Ray-Ban Display

Meta

Display glasses with an in-lens screen.

Two guides stand beneath route arrows. A first person VR training scenario for what is augmented reality, seen through the headset.

XREAL

XREAL

Display glasses that put a screen in the lens.

A learner and instructor display AR markers. A VR training scenario for augmented reality.

Rokid

Rokid

AR glasses with a display in the lens.

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