Smart glasses, compared

Slimmer third-gen camera glasses adding Aviator and Zena frames, a customizable Meta AI button, nine-hour battery, six-microphone noise reduction and 3K video with upcoming Dolby Atmos spatial audio.

Meta's first consumer glasses with a built-in 5,000-nit display and neural wristband, now sold online in the US, Canada and UK ahead of October 13 availability in France, Italy and Germany.

Meta's own-brand camera-and-audio glasses now span Adventurer, Fury, Capri and Nova styles plus LISA and Kylie editions, with the plug-in-case Adventurer on sale from $249.

Shipping flagship refresh with 1,200-nit AI HDR, 60fps 2D-to-3D conversion and a redesigned nose-pad system, while retaining the 57° field of view, X1 chip and Bose audio.

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.

Android XR glasses with a 70° see-through display, Gemini and a Snapdragon Reality Elite compute puck; public orders start at $1,099 through December 2026, with first shipments expected in mid-November.

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 public hands-on demos beginning October 1 in Los Angeles.

Meta's first camera-free Ray-Bans put six microphones, open-ear audio and Meta AI into Clubmaster and Burbank frames, with 12-hour battery life; sales and shipping began October 13.

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.

China-reservation successor with Android and RTOS dual-chip operation, 4K capture, five microphones and a larger 263mAh battery, with Rokid Ring gesture control.

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.

Shipping camera-and-audio AI glasses with a 50MP sensor and swappable temple batteries; the N1 Pro adds eye tracking, iris-authenticated payments and continuous heart-rate, SpO₂ and temperature monitoring.

Now-shipping second-gen all-day AI glasses with a full-color micro-OLED display, published hardware designs and firmware source, and voice-driven 'vibe' app building.

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.

Tethered spatial-display glasses pairing dual 2448×2064 micro-OLEDs and a 90° field of view with on-frame 6DoF, hand tracking and video passthrough; its $1.29M Kickstarter now targets October 30 for the first test shipments.

Camera-free meeting glasses with dual 600×300 micro-LED waveguides, a 12-hour battery, live captions and AI summaries; batch-two non-prescription orders ship within three business days.

Camera-free, display-free prescription-ready AI glasses with stereo audio and a Personal Memory Graph for voice notes, reminders and context; preorders are open ahead of November shipping.

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.

Camera glasses running MentraOS with open-source app software, direct Bluetooth developer tools and phone-hosted miniapps currently limited to local testing in MentraOS 3.0.

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.

Second-generation assistive-listening frames with stronger amplification, clearer speech in noise, on-frame controls, iPhone call handling and up to 10 hours of battery life.

Slim audio-AI glasses with a 16MP stabilized camera and a SolosChat stack spanning ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek; an optional $79 Privacy Kit adds a physical camera shield and non-powered transparent temple.

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

Jackson Wang-designed, display-free AI glasses with an 8MP POV camera, three microphones, open-ear audio, live translation and voice navigation; the official store still lists a $169 sale price and 3–7-business-day shipping.

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

Shipping prescription-ready hearing glasses in Harmony, Symphony and Aria frames, using SpeechSense AI to isolate speech for private open-ear amplification, music and calls with 10+ hours of battery life.

XGIMI's first AI glasses — dual-eye displays with 53-language two-way translation, summaries and a multi-LLM assistant; initial website-backer units are now shipping, while Nomad orders remain due in December.

Limited-run sports HUD with 3D-printed titanium temples, putting 40+ running and cycling metrics in a sunlight-readable color OLED display for 24+ hours.

Caption-focused display glasses using four beamforming microphones to show real-time captions, translate 60+ languages and generate AI meeting notes; current orders ship in 7–14 business days.

Standalone Linux 'ambient computer' in eyewear with hardware eye-control and hot-swappable batteries, now reservable with a $49 refundable deposit for expected January 2027 shipments.

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; its Kickstarter campaign ended 14 September.

Two-part spatial-computing glasses pairing a 5K micro-OLED display and color passthrough with eye and hand control, Dolby Atmos audio and an external Snapdragon Reality Elite compute-and-battery puck for a spring 2027 launch.

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, launching in November.

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 launching in November.

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.

Full-color Micro-LED display glasses announced in China with 64GB storage and optional Rokid Ring gesture input, with shipments expected from April 2027.

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.

Camera- and speaker-free binocular display glasses built around volume-holographic waveguides, prescription support and a 48-hour battery; refundable reservations are open ahead of an early-November Kickstarter, with shipping timing to be announced during the campaign.

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.

In-development agentic health glasses pairing a single-eye green waveguide with cameras, voice capture and temple-side wellness sensing; a 200-place Founding Access program targets 2027 shipping after about 100 earlier alpha units.

Early-access designer eyewear from the AirCaps and TranscribeGlass team, pairing camera- and display-free open-ear audio with four-channel microphones, conversation memory and a voice assistant.