Meta patents AR glasses with lenses molded directly into the frame
Meta describes a head-mounted display design where the eye-side lens is not a separate piece but is molded as one continuous material with the structural frame. This design places a waveguide between the eye-side lens and a world-side lens to direct both digital images and real-world light to the user's eyes.
In the filing’s own words
A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a structural frame, a waveguide, an eye-side lens, and a world-side lens. The waveguide is configured to direct display light to an eyebox region. The eye-side lens or the world-side lens is integrated into the structural frame as a molded contiguous refractive material. The eye-side lens has a first optical power configured to focus the display light to the eyebox region. The world-side lens has a second optical power and the combination of the first optical power and the second optical power focuses scene-light to the eyebox region. The waveguide is disposed between the eye-side lens and the world-side lens.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A head-mounted display comprising: a structural frame; a waveguide configured to direct display light to an eyebox region; an eye-side lens integrated with the structural frame as a molded contiguous refractive material, wherein the eye-side lens has a first optical power configured to focus the display light to the eyebox region; and a world-side lens having a second optical power, wherein the combination of the first optical power and the second optical power focuses scene-light to the eyebox region, the waveguide disposed between the eye-side lens and the world-side lens.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE HAVING LENS INTEGRATED WITH FRAME
- Publication number
- US20260287906A1
- Application number
- 19088573
- Filed
- Mar 24, 2025
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G02B 27/0176 Physics & computingG02B 2027/0152 Physics & computingG02B 2027/0178 Physics & computingMore from Meta in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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