Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and augmented reality technologies, today announced that it has begun shipping its first Causeway™ waveguide bridge samples to select prospective customers and ecosystem partners, and is making a broader optical interconnect evaluation kit available for AI data center optical interconnect applications, including co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures.

Industry forecasts point to significant growth in this emerging market. TrendForce forecasts that the combined co-packaged optics and near-…