{"id":"0d9b1a3f-62e3-49fc-980c-f5b641940201","companyId":"30407587-587e-4688-bfee-45887f7189a4","modelName":"Vuzix Z100","slug":"vuzix-z100","description":"Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI; founded 1997 in Rochester, New York by founder and CEO Paul Travers) is a long-established enterprise smart-glasses maker. Its current AI-glasses product, the Z100, is a 38-gram pair of monochrome green microLED waveguide heads-up-display glasses with up to 48-hour battery, which reached general availability in November 2024 at $499 and targets enterprise use in warehousing, logistics, and field service, with some consumer features such as notifications, navigation, and a teleprompter through the Vuzix Connect app. The company is genuinely commercial but small and shrinking, reporting first-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.4 million, down 12 percent year over year, a $7.1 million net loss, and a strategic pivot toward OEM waveguides, display systems, and engineering services, including shipping Ultralight Pro OEM glasses to Amazon in the second quarter of 2026. On AI substance, this should not be inflated as an AI wearable: the Z100's AI is an interface layer that surfaces intelligence computed elsewhere, through cloud large-language-model integrators such as SimplyVideo wrapping OpenAI, transcription and translation engines, and warehouse and ERP integrations, with no verified first-party on-device AI model, so it belongs in the registry as enterprise augmented-reality display hardware with AI-integration capability. Its earlier Blade and Blade Upgraded glasses are discontinued, with Blade 2 as the current enterprise successor.","formFactor":"wearable","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI; founded 1997, Rochester NY; founder/CEO Paul Travers) is a long-established enterprise smart-glasses maker. The Z100 (38g monochrome waveguide HUD, up to 48hr) reached general availability Nov 2024 at $499. The company is small and shrinking: Q1 2026 revenue $1.4M (down 12% YoY), net loss $7.1M, pivoting toward OEM waveguides / display systems / engineering services (e.g. shipping Ultralight Pro OEM glasses to Amazon Q2 2026)."},{"label":"AI-substance: THIN / partner-mediated","value":"Do NOT inflate as an 'AI wearable'. The Z100's 'AI' is an interface/delivery layer that SURFACES AI computed elsewhere (cloud LLMs via integrators like SimplyVideo wrapping OpenAI; transcription/translation engines; WMS/ERP integrations). There is no verified first-party on-device AI model. Belongs in the registry as enterprise AR/display hardware with AI-integration capability."},{"label":"Lifecycle note","value":"Blade / Blade Upgraded are DISCONTINUED (on Vuzix's discontinued-support page); Blade 2 is the current enterprise successor. The Z100 is the current commercial AI-glasses product."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Any first-party/on-device AI model on the Z100 (evidence = partner/cloud-mediated only); Z100 unit-sales / install base; a named flagship consumer AI partner; Z100 display resolution (third-party 640x480 / 30 deg is secondary, unconfirmed by primary source)."}],"specs":"Z100: 38g monochrome green microLED waveguide HUD; up to 48-hour battery; general availability Nov 20 2024 at $499; enterprise focus (warehouse/logistics/field service) + some consumer features (notifications, navigation, teleprompter) via the Vuzix Connect app. Blade / Blade Upgraded: earlier consumer/enterprise AR glasses, DISCONTINUED (Blade 2 is the current enterprise successor).","formFactor":"wearable (enterprise monochrome-waveguide HUD smart glasses; AI via partner integrations)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://ir.vuzix.com/2024-11-20-Vuzix-Announces-General-Availability-of-Z100-Smart-Glasses","title":"Vuzix announces general availability of Z100 smart glasses (Nov 20 2024; $499)","sourceName":"Vuzix (investor relations)"},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vuzix-reports-first-quarter-2026-results","title":"Vuzix Q1 2026 results: revenue $1.4M (-12% YoY); pivot to OEM waveguides","sourceName":"Vuzix (PR Newswire)"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuzix","title":"Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI; founded 1997, Rochester NY; Paul Travers)","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"url":"https://www.stocktitan.net/news/VUZI/vuzix-reports-first-quarter-2026","title":"Vuzix Q1 2026 (net loss $7.1M; engineering-services +36%; Amazon OEM Q2 2026)","sourceName":"StockTitan"}],"aliases":["Vuzix Z100","Z100","Vuzix Blade"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:57.036Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:57.036Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/vuzix-z100","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/vuzix-z100","name":"Vuzix Z100","alternateName":["Vuzix Z100","Z100","Vuzix Blade"],"description":"Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI; founded 1997 in Rochester, New York by founder and CEO Paul Travers) is a long-established enterprise smart-glasses maker. Its current AI-glasses product, the Z100, is a 38-gram pair of monochrome green microLED waveguide heads-up-display glasses with up to 48-hour battery, which reached general availability in November 2024 at $499 and targets enterprise use in warehousing, logistics, and field service, with some consumer features such as notifications, navigation, and a teleprompter through the Vuzix Connect app. The company is genuinely commercial but small and shrinking, reporting first-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.4 million, down 12 percent year over year, a $7.1 million net loss, and a strategic pivot toward OEM waveguides, display systems, and engineering services, including shipping Ultralight Pro OEM glasses to Amazon in the second quarter of 2026. On AI substance, this should not be inflated as an AI wearable: the Z100's AI is an interface layer that surfaces intelligence computed elsewhere, through cloud large-language-model integrators such as SimplyVideo wrapping OpenAI, transcription and translation engines, and warehouse and ERP integrations, with no verified first-party on-device AI model, so it belongs in the registry as enterprise augmented-reality display hardware with AI-integration capability. Its earlier Blade and Blade Upgraded glasses are discontinued, with Blade 2 as the current enterprise successor.","identifier":"0d9b1a3f-62e3-49fc-980c-f5b641940201","category":"wearable","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}