Smart glasses, compared

Camera-and-audio glasses with always-listening Meta AI and longer battery.

Meta's first consumer glasses with a built-in 5,000-nit display, driven by a neural wristband.

Meta's first own-brand camera-and-audio glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica and sold in 26 style combinations — the first pair to ship with Meta AI running on the Muse Spark model.

Flat-prism upgrade with a wider 57° field of view, in-house X1 chip and Bose audio; optional Eye camera module.

Slim oval 'Starfire' edition of Meta's own-brand glasses, co-designed with Kylie Jenner — an optional Kylie AI voice, a gem at the lens corner, and a mirror in the charging case.

Tethered XR glasses with dual Sony micro-OLED panels projecting a 174-inch virtual screen across a 58° field of view.

Snap's first standalone consumer AR glasses — a 51° field of view, dual Snapdragon chips and gesture control — shipping this fall in the US, UK and France, with a consumer launch event set for 16 September.

China's answer to Ray-Ban Meta — 40g display-free frames on Snapdragon AR1 with a 12MP Sony sensor, 2K video and a battery rated at over eight hours, sold with optional electrochromic lenses.

Second-gen frames with a 75% larger micro-LED display, 48-hour battery, IP65 and R1 ring control — still camera-free.

Ultralight 49g AR glasses pairing a dual-eye monochrome micro-LED waveguide and 12MP camera with a multi-LLM AI stack.

Budget 'X by Xreal' display glasses — a 62g camera-free pair projecting a 147-inch virtual screen from dual 120Hz micro-OLED panels, with a spatial anti-shake mode for commutes.

Full-color binocular AR glasses with dual 6,000-nit micro-LED displays and Gemini-powered AIOS, limited by a small battery.

HTC's 48.5g camera-and-audio AI glasses pair 3K capture and live translation with Gemini or OpenAI models and a privacy LED that disables recording if obscured.

Camera-free 33g AI glasses with a binocular monochrome micro-LED waveguide, live captions and meeting notes, head-gesture input and up to two days of everyday use.

Qwen-powered glasses sold in two tiers — the S1 pairs a monochrome green display with Snapdragon AR1 and a low-power coprocessor, while the 40g G1 drops the display — leaning on translation, navigation and Alipay and Taobao tie-ins.

Second-gen all-day AI glasses with a full-color micro-OLED display and voice-driven 'vibe' app building; its storefront still lists a Q1 2026 shipping start without a current fulfillment update.

USB-C display glasses built around 1080p 120Hz micro-OLED panels, native 3DoF screen anchoring and Bang & Olufsen-tuned quad speakers, with a wider 59° Max option.

Camera-free meeting glasses with dual 600×300 micro-LED waveguides, a 12-hour battery, live captions and AI summaries; orders are open, with non-prescription units scheduled to ship from September 15.

40g translation-first AI glasses with a resin waveguide display, a 5+1 mic array and a GlassClaw agent that handles real-time translation across 122 languages.

Open-source camera glasses running MentraOS, with a MiniApp store for livestreaming, captions and AI notes.

Cycling-focused AI sports glasses combining an adjustable 16MP camera, open-ear audio and ride-safety detection with automated 3K highlight editing.

Camera-and-audio travel glasses from a Berlin startup, pairing a 12MP Sony camera and photochromic lenses with a Gemini-powered 'Goya' assistant for live five-language translation and AI tour-guiding, in Berlin and Milan frames.

Slim audio-AI glasses with a 16MP stabilized camera and a SolosChat stack spanning ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek.

58g everyday AI glasses centered on real-time 98-language translation and AR navigation, with a monochrome micro-LED display and swappable battery.

Camera-free memory glasses that transcribe what you hear onto a private dual-waveguide display, with 60+ language translation.

XGIMI's first AI glasses — dual-eye displays with translation, summaries and a multi-LLM assistant; mass production has begun, with the first non-EU shipping waves scheduled for September.

Affordable 35g camera glasses with 8MP hands-free capture, open-ear audio, AI translation and object recognition, and interchangeable photochromic lenses.

45g AI glasses from the audio brand, built around a tinted shatter-resistant resin waveguide and an on-device vision pipeline that stores and uploads nothing; the Kickstarter opened 17 July.

Warby Parker's first smart glasses and the accessible tier of the Android XR eyewear Google and Samsung build together — a light nylon frame, clear or sun, on the shared platform Samsung detailed at Unpacked on 22 July: display-free, Gemini, Snapdragon AR1, a 12MP camera, directional audio and up to nine hours of battery, due this fall.

The Seoul label's Android XR debut and the design-led tier of the same Google and Samsung platform, detailed at Unpacked on 22 July — display-free frames with Gemini on Snapdragon AR1, a 12MP camera at the hinge, directional audio and up to nine hours of battery, backed by a $100M Google stake and due this fall.

Xreal's first Android XR glasses, pairing a 70° see-through display and Gemini with a Snapdragon Reality Elite split-compute puck; reservations are open ahead of a fall launch in the US, UK, Japan and Canada.

Reported display-free camera-and-audio glasses with Siri, planned for a WWDC 2027 unveiling and a late-2027 ship; Apple is said to be prototyping privacy hardware and software — including cameras that feed AI but cannot record photos or video — to answer the category Meta defined.

Conversational eyewear from the team behind a startlingly human voice — Sesame now lists display-free, audio-first frames for hands-free agent conversation as coming in 2027.

All-in-one binocular full-color AR glasses pairing a 25° Micro-OLED waveguide, 12MP camera and on-glasses Android compute with hot-swappable batteries; an Indiegogo launch is set for October 27.

Standalone Linux 'ambient computer' in eyewear — local processing, hardware eye-control and hot-swappable batteries.