Thinner lenses, brighter colors: Metalens research clears two hurdles for AR and VR glasses

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AR and VR glasses once seen only in science fiction may soon be realized not as bulky stacks of lenses but as a single eyeglass-like optical element. That future is now closer to reality.

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01AR and VR glasses once seen only in science fiction may soon be realized not as bulky stacks of lenses but as a single eyeglass-like optical element.
02That future is now closer to reality.

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