Meta patents swappable display modules for AR glasses

Meta describes a display unit for augmented-reality glasses that combines lenses and electronic components into a single module. This module uses a mounting system that lets it fit into different frame shapes, allowing users to swap the tech inside various styles of glasses.

In the filing’s own words

A display assembly including one or more lenses, one or more electronic components, and a modular mounting system. The one or more lenses and the one or more electronic components are configured to present an augmented-reality (AR) experience at a pair of AR glasses. The modular mounting system is configured to allow the display assembly to be inserted into a lens frame of a first type having a first shape and into a lens frame of a second type having a second shape that is different from the first shape.

Facts

Company

Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)

Official title

MODULAR DISPLAY ASSEMBLIES FOR USE IN AUGMENTED-REALITY GLASSES DEVICES

Publication number

US20260319261A1

Application number

19574137

Filed

Mar 20, 2026

Published

Oct 15, 2026

Inventors

2

Claims

21

Classified under

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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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