Vuzix OEM waveguide optics, light-engine agnostic AR: microLED LCOS DLP laser, Collins demo

Posted by – January 27, 2026
Category: Exclusive videos

Vuzix is framing its current lineup around practical enterprise wearables: a compact “smart display” you pair with a phone, plus fully stand-alone Android devices for hands-free work. In this interview, Adam Bull highlights how the Z100 sits in the lightweight end of that spectrum, acting as a right-eye heads-up display with a monochrome green microdisplay stack, aimed at glanceable prompts rather than full AR world-lock content. https://www.vuzix.com/products/z100-smart-glasses

On the industrial side, the conversation circles around the long-running M-Series concept: a single-eye, stand-alone Android wearable used for warehouse logistics, picking, and guided workflows, with multiple mounting options depending on PPE needs. The newer LX1 is positioned as a purpose-built “full shift” unit for warehousing, focused on ruggedization and comfort over many hour use, with a large clip-in battery pack and configurations that fit headbands, caps, or safety-rated mounts for the floor.

A key message is that Vuzix wants to help partners ship their own smart glasses faster via OEM reference platforms that scale capability by module choice: mic, speaker, camera, single vs dual display, monochrome vs full color, and different optical stacks depending on target cost and task. The video was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, and it captures how this OEM angle is being presented as much as the end products themselves, especially for teams that need to move from pilot to deployment without redesigning optics from scratch.

Optics is the other pillar: Vuzix describes itself as a waveguide designer and manufacturer, emphasizing in-house waveguide work in Rochester, New York and a roadmap aimed at high-volume output for waveguide-based display builds. They also stress being light-engine agnostic, tuning waveguides for multiple projector types (microLED, LCOS, laser beam scanning, DLP) and for daylight-readable targets, then showing an example helmet integration done with Collins Aerospace as a systems partner for defense-oriented programs, which adds useful context to what “we know light” means in practice.

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