Forbes December 18, 2025
John Werner

Have you actually ever seen someone wearing AR glasses?

Maybe not, but are you around the kind of crowd that would include these early adopters?

After all, Meta’s Ray-Bans are here, and so are a number of contenders, and merchants are shipping units. GPT estimates that 5-10 million users have AR glasses to date. That’s more than a few people, more than would fit in a number of stadiums.

So with that in mind, the conversation around what AR glasses can do is more than just theoretical. These wearables can make us smarter, help us to deal with things like auditory challenges, even save our lives.

And their engineering didn’t just happen by accident.

Making it Real

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