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In November 2024 Vuzix began shipping its Z100 smart glasses product, which is based on JBD's monochrome green 0.13" VGA microLED microdisplays, with a price tag of $499.

The company announced now that TranscribeGlass, a startup providing AI real-time transcription and captioning services, is basing its product on the Z100, and has now placed follow-on orders for more glasses.

Earlier this year, TCL launched its RayNeo X3 Pro, powered by full color microLED displays, and a few days ago we posted that these are now shipping for around $1,050 with subsidies. The X3 Pro has an ultra-compact 2,500 nits full-color microLED display engine, based on 3 monochrome microLED panels. 

We assumed that these microLEDs are produced by JBD, and the company indeed confirmed that today. JBD also revealed that this is the first time that its proprietary, system-level image-quality engine for waveguide AR glasses (branded as ARTCs-WG) has been fully integrated into an AR product.

China-based MicroLED microdisplay developer Jade Bird Display announced that it has implemented new technologies that enabled it to reduce the average number of defective pixels in its microdisplays from around 100 to around 3 per panel. This increased the company's panel yields quite dramatically.

In addition to the improvement in defective pixels, the company also reduced the rate of its 'dark pixels' (which means pixels with reduced brightness) from around 0.4% a few years ago to only 0.03% today. This, in addition to the company's proprietary demura pixel-level luminance-compensation algorithm has greatly enhanced pixel-brightness uniformity.

Earlier this year, TCL launched its RayNeo X3 Pro, powered by full color microLED displays. TCL now says that the glasses are available, in China only, with a recommended retail price of 8,999 yuan ( about $1,250). TCL says that with subsidies, the price comes down to 7,649 yuan (or around $1,050).

The new optical engine in the RayNeo X3 Pro is ultra compact - and is (according to TCL) the world's smallest "mass-producible" full-color micro-LED optical engine. It is based on three monochrome microLEDs and can deliver up to 2,500 nits of brightness. The microLEDs are likely supplied by JBD.

China-based microLED developer Jade Bird Display (JBD) launched a microLED-powered printhead module. The company says that this printhead offers a compact footprint, high performance, low power consumption, high accuracy and ultra-quiet operation. The company says that the microLED powered printhead delivers significant commercial value for printer manufacturers.

JBD says that traditional laser print modules are based on point-by-point scanning—from a single point to a line—and gradually expose the surface, whereas the new microLED printhead module employs a more streamlined one-dimensional linear LED array. This design enables an entire row to be exposed at once, significantly enhancing printing efficiency. JBD's new module offers a 1200 DPI resolution, and the company has a roadmap to reach 2400 DPI and 4800 DPI in the future. 

Halliday launched their first AR glasses, called simply the Halliday Glasses. These enable a rather unique AR solution, that uses a monocular direct projection into the eyes without waveguides. The display engine is a green monochrome microLED microdisplay - likely produced by JBD.

The Halliday Glasses launched in a crowdfunding campaign, with a price tag of $400 (including a $90 discount for early supporters). The company aims to deliver the first products by April 2025. The company already has over 3,500 supporters and has raised over $1.4 million (with 41 days left to the campaign). 

China-based MicroLED microdisplay developer Jade Bird Display have developed a full-color microLED microdisplay that achieves a brightness of 2 million nits (white-balanced).

JBD says that its Phoenix series RGB microdisplays offer a pixel pitch of 5 micron, an ultra-thin stack of less than 5 micron, native RGB emitters and high color fidelity. JBD hopes to commercialize its full color microdisplays in Q3 2025. 

INMO Technology officially launched its latest AR glasses, the INMO GO 2, that feature microLED microdisplays. The glasses use JBD's Hummingbird Mini II Optical Engine, with the company's 0.13" green monochrome VGA microdisplays. 

The INMO GO2 offers real-time simultaneous translation technology, supporting 40 languages and 90 accents.  The company says the battery life is 150 minutes of use on a full charge. The GO 2 are powered by a quad-core CPU and run on Android 9 with 2GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. 

Rokid announced a new AR headset, called Rokid Glasses, that are based on JBD's 0.13" VGA microLED microdisplays.

The Rokid Glasses offers a Snapdragon Qualcomm AR1 chipset, 12MP camera, 2GB of RAM, a battery life of 4 hours, and a charging carry case that can hold up to 10 full charges. The Rokid Glasses weigh 49 grams and offers several frame colors. Rokid will start selling the new AR headset by June 2025, with a price tag of 2,499 Yuan (around $350).

MicroLED Industry Association member XPANCEO announced a partnership with Jade Bird Display (JBD) to develop integrated microLED displays for XPANCEO's smart contact lens platform.

It turns out the two companies have been working already on two different approaches. The first one (shown in the image above) uses a project and hologram combination, projecting an image at a distance so the eye can focus on it. XPANCEO already tested this approach with JBD's microLED projector, as an external device to the contact lens, and now the two companies are aiming to integrate the microLED projector unto the lens.