Month: June 2026

As vehicles become autonomous, visibility becomes critical

As vehicles become autonomous, visibility becomes critical

Published on
June 5, 2026
Words by
Vedika Daswani

This is part of a series exploring how Miru dynamic glass is being applied across industries including automotive, architecture, wearables, and autonomous systems. 

Vehicles today are taking on more driving tasks than ever before. Automakers continue to expand the capabilities of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and move toward increasingly assisted and autonomous driving.

Features such as lane keeping, automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control, and hands-free highway driving are all powered by ADAS. Together, they help vehicles monitor their surroundings, identify hazards, and support driving decisions in real time.

Cameras have become one of the most important safety systems on modern vehicles, enabling ADAS to “see” and understand the world around them.

Like the human eye, however, cameras are vulnerable to light and glare. Low sun angles, oncoming headlights, and strong reflections can reduce image quality and make it more difficult for systems to accurately interpret their surroundings.

Today, the glass surface protecting these cameras remains static. The surface allows all light to pass through, including the stray and scattered light that causes flare and reduces contrast. Static glass has increasingly become a limitation for camera-based safety systems. 

The same dynamic glass platform behind Miru’s automotive and wearables applications applies here. Miru integrates electrochromic technology directly into the glass surface protecting ADAS cameras, managing incoming light before it reaches the sensors.

This creates two advantages:

Dynamic flare reduction: The dynamic glass responds to changing light conditions, including low sun angles, direct glare, and strong reflections, helping cameras maintain image quality and clarity under all lighting conditions.

Neutral color: ADAS systems rely on color information to interpret traffic signals, brake lights, road signs, and other critical visual inputs. Miru’s technology manages light without introducing significant color distortion.

ADAS performance ultimately depends on the quality of what the camera “sees”. By transforming sensor-facing glass into an intelligent surface, Miru helps create a more reliable foundation for the next generation of assisted and autonomous driving systems.

Explore how Miru Dynamic Glass is being deployed across ADAS, wearables, automotive and other industries: https://mirucorp.com/industries/autonomous-vehicles/

The future of wearables starts with smarter glass

The future of wearables starts with smarter glass

Published on
June 4, 2026
Words by
Vedika Daswani

This is part of a series exploring how Miru dynamic glass is being applied across industries including automotive, architecture, wearables, and autonomous systems. 

Smart glasses and augmented reality devices are moving into everyday environments, where they need to perform across bright sunlight, shaded streets, office lighting, vehicles, storefronts, and constant indoor-outdoor transitions. In each of these settings, one factor has an outsized impact on the user experience: light.

Bright sunlight washes out displays. Reflections reduce readability. Rapid transitions between indoor and outdoor environments create inconsistent viewing. 

Many smart glasses today compensate with brighter displays, fixed tint, or added software processing. These approaches can help, but they can also increase power use, reduce comfort, and limit usability.

The better solution starts at the optical glass layer.

Wearable systems rely on transparent surfaces to layer or project digital information onto the physical world. Dynamically controlling glare, brightness, heat, and visible light transmission is critical to system performance.

This is where Miru sees a major shift emerging.

The next generation of wearable devices will not rely on static optical surfaces. They will require intelligent optical control that continuously adapts to changing environmental conditions.

Miru dynamic glass actively manages light in real time for wearable and augmented reality systems.

Our electrochromic platform reduces glare, improves display visibility, and maintains optical clarity across changing lighting conditions, while supporting thin, lightweight, low-power and curved form factors required for seamless wearable integration.

The future of wearables and augmented reality depends on how effectively these devices perform and interact with the physical world around them.

Miru is building the intelligent dynamic glass that drives that transition.

Explore how Miru dynamic glass is being deployed across different industries: https://mirucorp.com/industries/wearables-augmented-reality/