World’s first open, Linux-based ambient computer in the form of glasses for developers and creators debuts in San Francisco, with a 30-degree full-color display built on an Avegant light engine
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — October 29, 2026 — Raven Resonance, Inc., the San Francisco company building the world’s first ambient computer in the form of a pair of stylish augmented reality glasses, and Avegant Corp., a leading developer of light engines for AR glasses, today announced the public launch of Raven Prism. The lightweight, all day-wear design uses an Avegant light engine to bring more than 25 apps into view on a bright, full-color display.
Raven Prism runs RavenOS, a 64-bit Linux-based operating system built for openness. Developers can SSH into the glasses, run native ARM64 Linux apps, and build with an SDK published on GitHub. The glasses ship with more than 25 apps.
Raven Prism is a standalone, monocular ambient computer that needs no phone. A full-color image appears in the right eye through a single waveguide, with a 30-degree diagonal field of view. Raven compares the view to a 16-inch laptop screen at arm’s length.
At the heart of that display is an Avegant light engine, a full-color LCoS design built for slim, all-day eyewear. Its small size and high efficiency let Raven fit a full-color display into a frame that looks and wears like ordinary glasses. Avegant engineers worked with Raven’s display team to tune color balance and uniformity.
Key features:
- Full-color 30-degree display powered by an Avegant light engine
- Under 70 grams, styled for all-day wear
- Hot-swappable “Raven Wings” batteries that change without powering down
- Eye control, with models available from Pupil Labs and Raven Resonance
- Privacy by design: a physical camera cover and illuminated indicators
- Quad-core 64-bit ARM processor with up to 4 GB of RAM
Raven first previewed Prism at AWE USA 2026 in Long Beach. Today’s launch is the first public showing of the full product.
“We built Raven Prism for people who make things and need to access information hands-free,” said Thomas Suarez, co-founder and CEO of Raven Resonance. “That means eyewear that is light enough to forget you’re wearing, with a display bright and sharp enough to work in all day. Avegant’s light engine made a full-color display possible in a frame this small. Their team takes a unique hands-on approach to partnerships, even closely collaborating in-person at our San Francisco lab.”
“Raven Prism is a remarkable product: beautifully designed, open by nature, and genuinely useful from the moment you put it on,” said Edward Tang, founder and CEO of Avegant. “Raven has built an open platform that puts full-color AR in the hands of developers today. We’re proud an Avegant light engine is at the center of it, and we look forward to supporting Raven as they scale.”
Raven Prism is available to order starting today at raven.computer, priced from $1,499. First shipments are expected in January 2027. Raven Prism is also available for enterprise deployments.
About the companies
About Raven Resonance Raven Resonance Inc. (San Francisco) is the developer of the world’s first ambient computer, which is bringing the personal computer directly into the human eyeline. Its first product, Raven Prism, puts an open, Linux-based computer into a pair of glasses form factor. This enables technical creatives to achieve hands-free access to Linux applications optimized for Raven using its full-color display with eye and voice control as well as its on-device AI. Drawing on decades of wearable computing experience, Raven designs its hardware and software in-house, with hot-swappable batteries to support extended use and unmatched privacy protections built into the architecture. The ambition is powerful personal computing that keeps the world in view. Raven is proudly designed and manufactured in the United States. Learn more at raven.computer.
About Avegant Corp. Avegant is a well-funded, venture-backed technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and head-mounted display technologies together with its consumer electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Since its inception, Avegant has developed numerous technologies ranging from the first consumer wearable high quality head-mounted display, to lightfield and foveated displays and, more recently, the smallest LCoS light engine in production, the AG-30L3. For more information, visit avegant.com.
Media contacts
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