These Smart Glasses Would Adjust Focus on the Fly Based on Your Eye Movements

While some of the world's biggest tech companies including Meta, Google and (reportedly) Apple are eyeing the future of smart glasses, startups are working on a major innovation for the other kind of glasses. The regular kind, worn by billions across the world. 

One of those startups, Finland-based IXI Eyewear, has raised more than $40 million from investors including Amazon to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking.

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In late 2025, the company said it had developed a glasses prototype ...