Events, conferences, meetups and exhibits

Where glasses developers meet — soonest first, past dates drop off automatically. Filter by company, glasses class or event kind.

Showing 17 of 17 events

Year-roundMeetupAWE NitesAWE's local AR meetups, run monthly by volunteer chapters in more than thirty cities — Berlin, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Helsinki, Brisbane and on. Each chapter picks its own night and topic, so read your city's listing rather than this row.Worldwide

Autumn 2026ConferenceDevFest 2026Hundreds of local conferences run by Google Developer Groups. Android XR sessions turn up at the larger ones, but the programme is set chapter by chapter, so check your local listing rather than assuming.Worldwide

Oct 1, 2026 – Mar 28, 2027ExhibitExtended Reality: Visions of the FutureA six-month exhibition at the Computer History Museum that puts more than 100 devices from six decades of extended reality in one room, and the glasses are the reason to go: Google Glass prototypes, Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Aria research devices sit in the same line as the head-mounted display Ivan Sutherland built in the 1960s. The museum frames it as wearable computing becoming the next platform, with AI and computer vision as what changed. Hands-on demonstrations run on select Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. for ages 13 and up: Oct 3 and 24, Nov 7 and 21, Dec 19 and Jan 2.Mountain View, USA

Oct 5 – 9 Oct 2026ConferenceIEEE ISMAR 2026The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality brings the field to Bari for five days, and this is where the science inside smart glasses is published first: head-worn displays, tracking, interaction and perception research, with industry practitioners alongside the academics. The premier venue whose name leads with augmented reality, registration open, and ACM SUI runs at the same venue right after (October 10 to 11) with a discount for attending both.Bari, Italy

Oct 7 – 9 Oct 2026ConferenceXR Creator Con 2026 ShowcaseThe Berlin end of the XRCC next.app hackathon. Twenty finalist teams demo their glasses builds at CityCube Berlin across three days, on a showcase floor inside xr&mobile-gamesCon, in front of investors, publishers, platform teams and enterprise buyers. Display glasses will be on hand to look through, per the organizers, so the floor is worth walking for the hardware as much as the projects.Berlin, Germany

Oct 27 – 29 Oct 2026ConferenceAI+AR Smart Glasses Industry Expo 2026Three days at Shenzhen World devoted entirely to the smart-glasses supply chain, from optical modules and light engines to finished frames and the lines that assemble them, with AR forums and investor matchmaking beside the floor. Where the eyewear fairs reach toward smart glasses frames-first, this expo starts from the components and works outward, in the city most of them come from.Shenzhen, China

Nov 13 – 15, 2026 (dates being finalized)HackathonImmerse the Bay 2026Stanford XR's annual hackathon puts 400 plus builders on campus for a weekend with hands-on access to over 300k dollars of XR equipment, and the glasses are on the device tables: XREAL sponsors at Gold and Snap AR at Silver, so teams can build for real frames rather than simulators. All skill levels and backgrounds are welcome, not just students, and applications are open now on the event's portal. The organizers still mark the November dates as being finalized, so check the site before booking travel.Stanford, USA

Nov 30 – 2 Dec 2026ConferenceXR Kaigi 2026Japan's largest XR conference, three days at Port City Takeshiba. The 2026 programme puts smart-glasses and on-device AI case studies on the main stage. Sessions are Japanese-first.Tokyo, Japan

Dec 1 – 4 Dec 2026ConferenceSIGGRAPH Asia 2026The graphics research conference's Asian edition, in Kuala Lumpur for the first time. Waveguide, display and hand-tracking work turns up in these papers a year or two before it reaches a shipping pair.Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dec 7 – 9 Dec 2026ConferenceUnitedXR Europe 2026What replaced AWE EU: AWE and Stereopsia merged their European events into one. Vendor-neutral like its parent, so competing glasses platforms are demonstrated in the same room.Brussels, Belgium

Jan 6 – 9 Jan 2027ConferenceCES 2027Trade-only, but the January show floor is where the challenger makers put their next frames in front of developers first.Las Vegas, USA

Jan 30 – 4 Feb 2027ConferenceSPIE Photonics West 2027SPIE fills Moscone Center for its flagship photonics week, and what puts it on this calendar is the co-located AR, VR and MR track: conferences on the optical architectures (optics, displays, sensors) behind the next generation of smart glasses, with the waveguide, light-engine and micro-display suppliers on the exhibition floor from February 2 to 4. Over 24,000 attendees, more than half of them in research and product-development roles, make it the place the parts inside future frames get shown first.San Francisco, USA

Feb 6 – 8 Feb 2027ConferenceMIDO 2027The eyewear trade's own fair. It matters to this industry from the frames end — lens suppliers, hinges, fit — which is the half of a wearable pair that no SDK fixes.Milan, Italy

Mar 1 – 4 Mar 2027ConferenceMWC Barcelona 2027The mobile industry's yearly gathering. Carriers, chipmakers and phone brands announce their glasses tie-ins here, and the Android XR partners usually bring hardware to the floor.Barcelona, Spain

Apr 7 – 9 Apr 2027ConferenceLaval Virtual 2027France's long-running XR week, in its 29th edition. The programme leans industrial and enterprise, so it shows glasses being worn for work rather than demonstrated on a stand.Laval, France

Jun 14 – 17 Jun 2027ConferenceAWE USA 2027The largest independent AR gathering — vendor-neutral, so it is the one week where every glasses platform is demonstrated side by side.Long Beach, USA

Jul 14 – 16 Jul 2027ConferenceAWE Asia 2027AWE's Asian edition, and the shortest trip to see the Chinese glasses makers' line-ups side by side rather than one launch at a time.Shanghai, China