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.

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.

Second-gen all-day AI glasses with a full-color micro-OLED display and voice-driven 'vibe' app building; first units are now due to ship in early August, with the $349 pre-launch price rising to $399 on 27 July.

28.5g 'proactive AI' glasses whose DigiWindow micro-projector beams an invisible display into the top of your vision, controlled by a ring.

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.

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; Kickstarter orders opened in June for summer delivery.

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.

Reference glasses for the Android XR platform, with Gemini built in.

Samsung's first Android XR glasses, shown at Galaxy Unpacked in London on 22 July — a display-free Gemini frame on Snapdragon AR1 with a 12MP camera, directional audio and up to nine hours of battery, in Gentle Monster and Warby Parker styles; price and date still undisclosed ahead of a fall launch.

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.

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