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February 17, 2026

Mobile Smart Glasses Forecast 2026-2031

Smart Glasses surge through period, with strong MNO opportunity for latency-sensitive AI inferencing services

A new wave of Extended Reality (XR) devices is rapidly entering the market. As excitement builds, this report delivers a comprehensive assessment of the true commercial opportunity across the XR ecosystem.

We provide detailed forecasts for annual shipments and installed base through 2031, covering Mobile Smart Glasses, VR headsets, and Lean-back Glasses – offering stakeholders a clear view of how the XR devices market is expected to scale over the next five years.

Crucially for MNOs, we examine the AI inferencing opportunity behind smart glasses. With limited on-device processing, workloads will shift to external compute. Can MNOs use edge infrastructure to capture this latency-sensitive demand, or will hyperscalers retain control?

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