Everysight
| Everysight | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Industry | Augmented Reality |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder | Asaf Ashkenazi, Hanan Shamir |
| Headquarters | Haifa, Israel |
| Notable Personnel | Asaf Ashkenazi (CEO), Hanan Shamir (CTO) |
| Products | AR smart glasses (Raptor, Maverick AI) |
| Parent | Elbit Systems (former) |
| Website | https://www.everysight.com |
Everysight is an Israeli technology company that designs Augmented Reality Smart glasses for consumers, with an early focus on cyclists and other endurance athletes. The company was established in 2014 as a spin-off of the defense electronics firm Elbit Systems, and it is based in Haifa, Israel.[1][2] Everysight's hardware grows out of the helmet-mounted display systems that Elbit built for fighter pilots, and the company adapts that aerospace heads-up display heritage into lightweight eyewear that floats data and graphics in the wearer's line of sight.[3][4]
The company was co-founded by Asaf Ashkenazi, who serves as chief executive, and Hanan Shamir, who serves as chief technology officer.[5][6] Its first product, the Everysight Raptor, reached the market in 2018, and the company later returned with the Maverick AI line of full-color glasses in 2026.[7][8]
History
Everysight traces its roots to Elbit Systems, where a team had spent years building advanced helmet-mounted and heads-up display systems for military aircraft.[3][6] The smart glasses effort was carved out as a separate company in 2014 so that the technology could be aimed at consumers rather than defense customers.[1][2] CEO Asaf Ashkenazi described the venture as an attempt to take a fighter-pilot-style helmet display, the kind of system the team had refined over roughly a decade, and shrink it into eyewear that an athlete could actually wear.[6]
The company first showed its consumer ambitions publicly in December 2016, when it announced a test pilot program for the Raptor smart glasses aimed at cyclists and triathletes.[3][6] Everysight finalized Raptor pricing and specifications on October 24, 2017, opened pre-orders on November 15, 2017, and began shipping in the United States in February 2018, with European availability following in April 2018.[7][9]
After the Raptor, Everysight continued to develop its projection display and eventually moved beyond the cycling niche toward a broader, AI-focused consumer product. In March 2026 it unveiled the Maverick AI and Maverick AI Pro, full-color glasses positioned against mainstream rivals such as the Ray-Ban Meta line, and launched a crowdfunding campaign for them on Kickstarter on March 31, 2026.[8][10][11]
Technology
Everysight's defining technology is a projection display the company markets as BEAM. Rather than embedding a screen in the lens or routing light through a Waveguide, a tiny projector near the bridge of the glasses casts an image onto the inner surface of the lens, which reflects it back toward the eye to form a bright, see-through picture overlaid on the real world.[4][10] Digital Trends described the original Raptor system as "a tiny projector embedded in the Raptor's nose rest to shoot light toward the eyepiece's mirror lenses," producing "a hovering, see-through image overlayed on line-of-sight scenery."[4] Everysight presents the approach as more optically efficient than waveguides, which lets the glasses stay bright while keeping weight and power draw low.[4][11]
The 2026 Maverick generation pairs BEAM optics with a full-color Sony OLED panel rated at 5,000 nits, a 1280x720 image, and a 28-degree Field of view that the company likens to a 130-inch screen viewed from six meters.[10][11] The Maverick is built around the Alif Ensemble E7 processor, a low-power chip that combines Arm Cortex-M55 cores, Ethos-U55 neural processing units, and Cortex-A32 application cores to handle on-device tasks such as navigation, translation, transcription, object recognition, and scene understanding.[12]
The Maverick AI Pro adds an embedded Eye tracking module, which the company brands GazeIntent and which Everysight and several reviewers described as the first eye tracking built into smart glasses. The hardware lets the wearer select apps and menu items by holding their gaze, after a short calibration step.[8][10][11]
Products
| Product | Year | Type | Notable specs and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everysight Raptor | 2018 | Monocular AR smart glasses | Announced December 2016; final pricing October 2017; pre-orders November 15, 2017; shipped February 2018 (US) and April 2018 (EU). Runs Android on a quad-core chip with 2GB RAM and 16GB or 32GB storage; BEAM projection display; built-in camera, GPS and GLONASS, microphone and speaker, voice control; IP55-rated Grilamid TR-90 frame; up to 8 hours of battery. Launch pricing 499 US dollars (16GB) and 549 US dollars (32GB), with regular pricing of 649 and 699 US dollars.[7][9][4] |
| Maverick AI | 2026 (Kickstarter) | Monocular full-color AR smart glasses | Crowdfunding opened March 31, 2026; shipping targeted for August 2026. Full-color Sony OLED via BEAM optics, 1280x720 at 5,000 nits, 28-degree field of view, about 47 grams, 8-plus hours of display-on battery, forward-facing AI camera, Alif Ensemble E7 processor, smartphone tethering. Early-bird price 299 US dollars; MSRP 499 US dollars.[8][11][12] |
| Maverick AI Pro | 2026 (Kickstarter) | Monocular full-color AR smart glasses with eye tracking | Same display and platform as the Maverick AI, plus an embedded GazeIntent eye tracking module for gaze-based selection. Early-bird price 359 US dollars; MSRP 599 US dollars.[8][10][11] |
Reception
The Raptor drew attention as one of the more capable AR sports wearables of its era, praised for a genuinely transparent display that kept cycling data in view without blocking the road, though its high price and niche focus limited its mainstream reach.[3][4] Coverage repeatedly highlighted the unusual pedigree of glasses derived from fighter-jet helmet displays.[3][6]
The 2026 Maverick AI Pro generated interest chiefly for its eye tracking and its bright projection display. Hands-on coverage by Gizmodo called the BEAM screen "impressive," noting it matched the brightness of the Meta Ray-Ban Display while offering double the resolution, and praised the 47-gram weight against heavier rivals. Reviewers were more cautious about the eye tracking itself, describing the calibration as "temperamental" and easily disrupted by small shifts of the frame, and summarizing the product as "a good first draft" that still had "a long way to go before it's perfected."[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Everysight". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everysight.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "These AR Cycling Glasses Will Help You Get a Grip". https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3757395,00.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Everysight's smartglasses give cyclists a fighter jet display". December 7, 2016. https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/07/everysights-smartglasses-give-cyclists-a-fighter-jet-display.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Engineered for fighter pilots, Everysight Raptor AR goggles are built for bikers". https://www.digitaltrends.com/outdoors/everysight-raptor-glasses/.
- ↑ "Everysight - Crunchbase Company Profile". https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/everysight.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Elbit Systems' Spin-Off Everysight launches new AR Glasses". https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/27835.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Everysight's Raptor AR cycling glasses start at $499". October 24, 2017. https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-24-raptor-ar-cycling-glasses-pre-orders-begin-november-15.html.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro's Best Features". https://gizmodo.com/smart-glasses-now-have-one-of-the-vision-pros-best-features-2000739142.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Everysight's AR cycling smart glasses landing February 2018 from $649". https://www.wareable.com/ar/everysight-raptor-ar-release-date-price-specs-3410.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 "The World's First Eye-Tracking Smart Glasses Are Intriguing and Unpolished". https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-eye-tracking-smart-glasses-are-intriguing-and-unpolished-2000743475.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 "Everysight: Maverick AI - The lightest, brightest, full color AR+AI glasses". https://comingsoon.co/products/maverick-ai-glasses/.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Edge AI Meets Wearables: Inside Everysight's Maverick Smart Glasses Powered By Alif Ensemble E7". https://alifsemi.com/edge-ai-meets-wearables-inside-everysight-maverick-smart-glasses-powered-by-alif-ensemble-e7/.