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Rokid launched a new crowdfunding campaign (which already passed $700,000 with 1,200+ supporters) for its latest AR headset, the Rokid Glasses. The new AR device utilizes dual Jade Bird Display's monochrome (green) microLED microdisplays, likely its 0.13" VGA ones.

The 49 grams Rokid Glasses is powered by Qualcomm's AR1, NXP's RT600 and it offers 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. There's a 12MP camera, and it supports live translation and ChatGPT5. Rokid says it will start shipping the glasses in November 2025.

According to a report from China, Jade Bird Display (JBD) has successfully completed its Series B1 financing round. The company raised "hundreds of millions" of yuan, which could mean from around $30 million USD to almost $150 million.

The investors in this round include the Anhui Railway Fund, Ant Unicorn Fund, China Merchants China Fund, Fanghua Fund, Guangyue Investment, Hundun Investment, Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund and Xichuang Investment. The company says it will use the funds mainly to accelerate its R&D.

In 2024, JBD raised its A4 round, which was also said to be in the range of "hundreds of millions of Yuan". The company's previous investors include Alibaba, Samsung, BYD and Geely. BYD is said to be working with JBD to develop MicroLED automotive applications.

Chengdu-based Guangyu Gaowei announced their latest smart glasses, the Coray Air2. The company says the AR glasses utilize silicon carbide waveguides - the first of its kind.

In terms of the display engine, the Coray Air2 uses a full-color microLED display engine, JBD's Hummingbird, that enables a 640x480 resolution with a maximum brightness of 6,000 nits. The display engine utilize three monochrome microLED panels.

Alibaba unveiled its first AI Smart Glasses, called the Quark AI. These glasses will be based on the company's own Qweb AI platform, and will feature a voice assistant, full voice control, a front camera and a QR payment system.

The Quark AI will have two models: the basic one without a display, and a display powered one, that will feature a monochrome green microLED display. It is likely to be based on JBD's microdisplays (Alibaba is one of JBD's investors). Alibaba says that it will launch the Quark AI Glasses by the end of 2025.

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).