With the increasing awareness of physical health and reasonable exercise among people, the smart wearable market has gradually expanded. According to Precedence Research data, the global smart wearable device market is expected to reach $86.65 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 19.59%, and is projected to reach $431.74 billion by 2034! In recent years, the form of smart wearable products has also evolved from top worn, finger worn, wrist worn to body worn, with smart rings and smart glasses showing the most vigorous development trend.

*The image material comes from the internet

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Smart Ring:

exponential growth

The global scale is expected to exceed 1 billion US dollars.

The smart ring market is expected to experience explosive growth by 2025, with a global market size projected to exceed $1 billion by 2032, representing an annual growth rate of 24.1%. Chinese brands have performed outstandingly, with RingCon setting an industry record with a crowdfunding amount of $4.4 million, and its products account for 90% of overseas markets. At the technical level, AI algorithms achieve a closed loop from health monitoring to personalized recommendations, and medical level functions such as sleep apnea screening have become new highlights; In terms of functionality, the smart ring's linkage with laptops and interaction with smart glasses greatly expands the usage scenarios of smart rings; At the level of market competition, giants such as Apple and Samsung are accelerating their layout, promoting the development of products towards lightweight (only 2 grams) and long battery life (over 100 days). In addition, consumers' demand for sensory free wearables and health management continues to drive market expansion. (Some of the data in the paragraph comes from the internet)

*The image material comes from Ringcon's independent overseas brand website

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Smart glasses:

The fate of new energy vehicle manufacturers

Accelerate the layout of AI hardware entrance.

The smart glasses market is expected to experience explosive growth by 2025, with global sales projected to reach 13.448 million pairs, a year-on-year increase of 350.82%. The performance in the Chinese market is particularly outstanding, with sales increasing by 107% year-on-year to 2.75 million units and a scale exceeding 4.69 billion yuan. On the technical side, the thickness of the optical waveguide module has been reduced to 1.5mm, and the cost of MicroOLED has decreased by 15%, pushing the terminal price down to the consumer level range of 2000 yuan; At the application scenario level, smart glasses have expanded from industrial maintenance to multiple fields such as intelligent photography, AI voice interaction and control, real-time translation, and health monitoring. The localization deployment of AI large models has made them "scene based AI assistants". In addition, it should be noted that new energy vehicle manufacturers have also begun to accelerate the layout of AI hardware entry for smart glasses. For example, the well-known domestic new energy vehicle manufacturer Ideal has already released its first smart glasses, which can be linked with new energy vehicles. (Some of the data in the paragraph comes from the internet)

*The image material comes from the internet

The overall trend of the smart wearable market is showing a diversified explosion: smart rings have become the new favorite of health management with their seamless wearing and medical grade monitoring functions; Smart glasses enter industrial and consumer scenarios through innovative applications such as intelligent photography, AI voice interaction, AR navigation, and real-time translation. For the explosion of the smart wearable market, some media even claim that 2025 is the year of AI hardware. In the face of the explosion of the smart wearable market, Xinyuan Optics uses sapphire cover glass and ceramic accessories to assist in the manufacturing of smart wearable devices.

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New Source Optics:

31 years of focus on smart wearable devices

Sapphire cover glass manufacturing.

Xinyuan Optics was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. The company started with the manufacturing of sapphire precision watch cover glass and has now customized sapphire glass mirrors, sapphire bezel, sapphire dial, sapphire case, etc. for many well-known high-end watch brands. With excellent product quality and high-quality service, it has been rated as an "excellent supplier" by many customers. At present, Xinyuan Optics is the drafting unit of the Chinese industry standard for synthetic sapphire glass, making important contributions to the Chinese watch manufacturing industry.

Xinyuan Optics adheres to the business philosophy of survival through quality and development through efficiency, operates with integrity, keeps pace with the times, and gradually expands its scale. At present, the company produces over 20 million pieces of various types of sapphire lenses annually, ranking among the top in the sapphire industry in terms of scale and strength. Among them, sapphire watch mirrors account for over 30% of the global watch appearance market share. The company passed the ISO 9001 quality management system certification in 2008, and its product quality meets the EU REACH and RoHS standards, demonstrating strong competitiveness in the international market.

*The picture shows customized sapphire watch glass products from Xinyuan Optics

*The picture shows the customized sapphire smart ring shell (exterior part) of Xinyuan Optics

In December 2025, Xinyuan Optics held a kick-off meeting for the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) project at its Heyuan production base (Jingyuan Optics), marking a crucial step forward in Xinyuan Optics' digital and intelligent transformation of production. This is not only a technological upgrade, but also a strategic measure to build a smart factory and reshape manufacturing competitiveness in the era of Industry 4.0!

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New Source Optics:

Incubate new projects

Zirconia ceramic smart wearable accessories (structural components).

Xinyuan Optics established its Special Ceramics Division in 2024, specializing in the research and development and production of smart wearable ceramic accessories (smart watch ceramic bezel, ceramic smart ring exterior parts, etc.) at its Heyuan production base. Xinyuan Optics adheres to the excellent technology of processing sapphires with higher hardness, and has formed a quality system specifically for processing and polishing zirconia ceramics. It has high yield, good precision, and high degree of automation, and the polished products have the characteristics of high strength and high toughness. At present, Xinyuan Optics has established customized cooperation with several well-known smart ring (ring) brands.

*Process Flow Chart of Appearance Parts for Xinyuan Optical Ceramic Ring (Ring)

*The picture shows customized appearance components (structural components) of Xinyuan Optical Ceramic Smart Ring

success cases

*The picture shows a customized case of Xinyuan Optical Ceramic Smart Watch bezel