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AR startup Viture is stealthily working on new AI glasses 

Meta is about to get some new competition in the AR-powered smart glasses space: A little-known company called Vonderful Inc. is gearing up to launch its first pair of AI glasses around CES, according to a staging website that appears to have been published prematurely and a recent FCC filing. 

Operating under the Vonder brand, the company promises to make “the most advanced smart glasses ever created” by combining augmented reality and “real-time information and assistance powered by advanced artificial intelligence.”

A tall order, especially given that Meta just launched its $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses, arguably the industry’s most consumer-ready AI glasses with integrated display to date. But Vonderful isn’t starting from scratch: Vonder appears to be a stealth project of Viture, an AR startup that has been building glasses since 2021.

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