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Color-Display Smart Glasses to Drive Future of Micro LED: Report

Smart glasses and augmented reality will drive a $41 million Micro LED microdisplay market by 2026, reported TrendForce Wednesday. The market is expected to spike $36 million from 2025-2026 due to gradual maturity of technologies such as red chips, laser…

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transfer, wafer bonding and full-colorization, which can improve yield and reduce production costs, said the research firm. Current Micro LED AR smart glasses are dominated by monochrome displays due to a full-color technology “bottleneck”; they can display only basic functions such as information prompts, navigation, translation and teleprompter applications, TrendForce said. After full-color technology matures, it will be used first in specialized applications in the military, medical surgery and testing instruments, and factory environment monitoring and maintenance tools fields, it said. Micro LED is at an early stage of AR application technology development, and design and manufacturing challenges have to be addressed, it said.