Optaric Builds Smart glasses for Work

While Big Tech Builds Smart Glasses for Consumers, Optaric Builds Them for Work

Your AI. Your data. Your rules.

Team behind more than 100,000 enterprise wearable deployments unveils Optaric Guard, full-color display smart glasses built as safety eyewear, and Optaric Link, software that keeps AI and data under the enterprise's control

VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 12, 2026: As the world’s largest technology companies race to put smart glasses on consumers, Optaric is focused on a different wearer: the front line worker

Today, Optaric is unveiling Optaric Guard, full-color display smart glasses in a true safety glasses form factor, and Optaric Link, iPhone and Android software that connects them to an enterprise's own AI, data and apps.

Consumer smart glasses typically bundle the hardware, the AI assistant and the cloud in one vendor-controlled ecosystem. Optaric is designed the other way round, around one principle: your AI, your data, your rules.

•      Your AI: enterprises bring their own AI or vision AI provider, through an open Android SDK and Optaric Link

•      Your data: audio and camera data flows to the worker's phone and into the enterprise's own systems, with no Optaric servers in the data path by default

•      Your rules: the glasses work as an accessory to IT-managed phones and with standard MDM and EMM platforms, so they never need to join the corporate network

Optaric Link is an app and SDK for iPhone and Android that sits between the glasses and the enterprise. The enterprise's own apps and AI run on the managed phone, and the glasses act as the hands-free interface. For IT and security teams, that means one less attack surface and one fewer hurdle to deployment.

“Enterprises already know which AI they trust and where their data needs to live,” said Dr. Chris Parkinson, CEO of Optaric. “Consumer glasses were never designed around that. Optaric Link is a CarPlay moment for enterprise smart glasses: the phone and the apps the enterprise already trusts stay in charge, and the glasses become the hands-free interface.”

Optaric Guard is a platform with three variants, from camera-only to full-color display, all built on Qualcomm's AR1+ platform with dual cameras and a full audio system. The full-color model has a binocular waveguide display, weighs under 85 grams and has a hot-swappable battery for full-shift use. It is worn over prescription glasses, works regardless of eye dominance, and is designed to meet ANSI Z87.1 and EN ISO 16321 safety standards.

Founded by the team behind more than 100,000 enterprise wearable deployments worldwide, Optaric has already secured its first enterprise customers and is now delivering working hardware to early adopters focusing on manufacturing, field service, logistics, energy, and public safety industries.

“After years of deploying head-mounted devices in industrial sites, we know what gets worn and what ends up in the cupboard of regret,” said Derrick Sawyer, CRO of Optaric. “For years, enterprises have been demanding a lighter, safer design for wearables. Optaric Guard is built to answer that: safety glasses first, light enough to wear all shift and designed to fit every worker.”

Optaric will show Guard and Link in person for the first time at the Augmented Enterprise Summit in Atlanta, October 13 to 15, and in customer meetings.