Vuzix Corporation announced that the Company intends to offer the design and manufacture of diffractive waveguides using plastic, in addition to glass. Vuzix will be displaying new early samples of these waveguides during Augmented World Expo USA 2024 (AWE), by appointment only, which begins and runs through June 20 at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California. Plastic waveguides offer several potential advantages over glass, most notably greater impact resistance and lighter weight.

They can offer refractive indexes of 1.70 or greater, below that of high-index glass formulations, but still sufficient for certain field of view (FOV) waveguide configurations. Like glass, plastic waveguides can be made extremely flat, which is necessary for adding integrated vision correction.