Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses may be getting competition from a company that makes visor-style AR glasses. A little-known company called Vonderful Inc. (AR Viture)is preparing to launch its first pair of AI glasses around CES ,according to a website that appears to have been published prematurely and a recent FCC filing.
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Operating under the Vonder brand, the company promises to create “the most advanced smart glasses ever created” by combining augmented reality with “real-time information and assistance powered by advanced artificial intelligence.”
That's an ambitious undertaking, especially considering that Meta just released the $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses, which are considered the most consumer-ready AI glasses with a built-in display to date. However, Vonderful isn't starting from scratch: Vonder appears to be a secret project of Viture, an AR startup that's been making glasses since 2021.
The connection was revealed in Vonder’s FCC filings, which were submitted by a Viture employee identified as a “project manager” for Vonder. A landing page for Vonder, complete with a countdown timer indicating an early 2026 launch, is hosted on Viture’s servers. A trademark for Vonder was filed by Eden Future HK Limited, which has been identified in Chinese media as the owner of Viture.
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Viture is one of a handful of companies with Chinese roots that makes visor-style glasses that connect to your phone or computer for power and computing power, essentially mirroring those screens with an AR overlay. These devices typically use “birdbath” optics, which involve a set of mirrors to layer images over your view of the real world — a bulky approach that can’t really compete with the more advanced waveguide used by devices like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses.
These glasses might be an acceptable solution if you want to have a secondary screen for your phone, laptop, or games console, but you wouldn't want to walk down the street with them on unless you're okay with always having a cable hanging from your side connecting your phone and glasses. Without built-in computing power, their AI functionality is also limited to what your phone offers.
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Viture launched its first visor device in 2022 and doubled down on the product category with several new models this summer. In addition to the glasses themselves, Viture also sells a collar that contains the necessary computing power to operate the glasses without being connected to a phone, while also providing some gesture control via built-in cameras.
