Advancing AI Smart Glasses with Maxic’s Sensors and Power Management ICs
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Release Date2025-12-12
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The wave of smart terminals is expanding from the palm-sized screens in our hands to an entirely new visual frontier. Following the smartphones and smartwatches, smart glasses—a wearable smart terminal integrating micro-displays, stereo sound, voice interaction, environmental sensing, and even artificial intelligence—is becoming the catalyst for the next trillion-dollar market. By breaking the physical limits of traditional screens, they seamlessly overlay information and services onto the real world, delivering a new experience of hands-free, always-available information.
Global shipments of AI smart glasses and VR/MR headsets continue to surge, with leading technology brands such as Meta, Apple, Huawei, and Samsung ramping up their investments. As devices evolve toward lightweight, long battery life, and multimodal interaction, the industry is placing higher demands on chip integration, compact package, and high-precision sensing capability.
Maxic’s multiple intelligent sensing and power-management ICs deliver core solutions for AI smart glasses, including optical key detection, wear detection, ambient-light sensing, eye-tracking, and wireless charging.
■ Optical Tracking Sensor: More Precise Key Control
The rotary key on smart glasses features both key press confirmation and rotation adjustment functions, and its precision is largely determined by the built-in optical tracking sensor. Maxic has the industry’s first sensor that integrates both rotation detection and key detection. With a 24×24 large-area pixel array and rotation angle resolution accurate up to 0.1°, it delivers clearly distinguishable rotational feedback and precise press confirmation, fully meeting the accuracy requirements of key-based interaction.
In addition, the chip adopts compact and low power design, integrating an 850nm VCSEL, IR receiver array, high-precision ADC, and high-speed digital image processor. This enables broad compatibility with the design needs of AI and VR/MR smart-glasses applications.

■ Proximity Sensor: More Reliable Wear Detection
Smart glasses incorporate proximity sensors to detect wearing status—automatically waking when brought close to the face and entering standby mode within seconds after removal. This interaction enhances convenience while improving power efficiency. Maxic’s intelligent proximity sensor achieves precise wear detection, auto play/pause, and efficient power management, featuring extremely low operating power and near-zero standby power.
In addition to its ultra-low power design, the chip leverages intelligent control and sleep mechanisms to further reduce system-level power consumption, significantly improving both user experience and device battery life. It is widely used in AI and VR/MR smart glasses, TWS/OWS wireless earbuds, smartwatches, and other portable smart devices.

■ Ambient Light and Color Temperature Sensor: Adaptive Brightness and Color Temperature Control
In AI smart glasses, ambient light sensing is fundamental to delivering an intelligent and seamless user experience. Maxic’s ambient light and color temperature sensor is a highly integrated RGB with flicker detection device that serves as both an “environmental observer” and a “display regulator.” By accurately capturing surrounding illumination conditions, it provides essential data to support automatic display brightness adjustment, true-color photo display, anti-flicker photography, and context-aware AI interactions.
Beyond this, the sensor also supports intelligent camera-indicator control and obstruction detection. It has evolved from a simple “experience enhancer” into a critical component tied to core system security and user privacy. This allows AI glasses not only to intelligently “see the world,” but also to intelligently “manage themselves,” ensuring steady progress toward broader social acceptance and regulatory compliance.
With broad applicability, the sensor can be equipped in TVs, tablets, smartphones, laptops, and other display-based terminals, as well as camera modules, wearables devices, smart glasses, smart homes, industrial IoT devices, and a wide range of instrumentation.

■ AI Sensor: Real-Time Eye-Tracking Interaction
Eye-tracking is a key interaction method for AI/AR glasses. By capturing eye-movement data and processing it through on-device AI algorithms, the system identifies the user’s gaze direction and focus point in real time, enabling natural “gaze-based interaction.” Users are freed from manual operations and can trigger functions simply by looking—such as locking onto an object for instant introduction or translation, focusing on a route to generate navigation guidance, or initiating photo and video capture by gazing at a target area—delivering a true “see-and-act” experience.
Maxic AI Sensor captures subtle eye movements with high precision and, combined with advanced algorithms, enables low-latency data processing. This enhances gaze interaction and intent recognition performance, significantly improving interaction efficiency and scenario adaptability of intelligent devices.

■ Wireless Charging Chip: Simple, Aesthetic, and Convenient Power Charging
AI glasses support multiple charging options, including USB-C wired charging, magnetic contacts, charging cases, and wireless charging. Wireless charging aligns with the trend toward thinner, lighter smart devices, offering water/dust resistance and aesthetic simplicity. Integrated into the temples of AI glasses, the receiver enables effortless charging by aligning with a corresponding transmitter. Devices such as AI-glasses cases and VR controllers can likewise leverage wireless charging technology to eliminate cable dependence.
Maxic’s wireless charging transceivers support high-frequency operation, Qi 2.2 specification, and MPP, EPP, BPP. Its high integration and compact package enable precise adaptation to this industry trend.

As AI glasses build a seamless bridge between users and devices, and between the real and virtual worlds, Maxic believes this represents not only product innovation but also a steadfast commitment to the AI edge interaction market.
Amid the AI wave reshaping the smart wearable industry, Maxic is increasingly focusing on AI solution layout, precisely capturing the trend of industry development. Looking ahead, we will continue to iterate technologies and refine products, delivering solutions tailored to AI scenarios. By leveraging our expertise, we aim to empower smart wearables and diverse terminal applications, partnering with industry partners to accelerate the industry toward a new era of “seamless, intelligent interaction”.
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