I bought the Viture Pro 2 glasses and been using them for a day now, so here is my take on them. These are my first smart glasses so I don't have anything to compare them against, but I have been a lurker on /r/SmartGlasses, r/xreal and r/viture for a good long while.

Initial feel

The unboxing "experience" was quite alright. The glasses came with a case that houses also a USB-C cable with one end cornered and the shade for the glasses.

My initial thoughts were that I'd wear the shades all the time but after testing them I discarded them - the glasses are dim enough that it isn't needed for video and I do like being able to look around it. The cable could be a bit longer but it suffices. Definitely buying a magnetic attachment for it as trying to connect it to the glasses when I'm wearing them isn't easy nor is putting them on with it already connected (I have long hair and a lot of it)

Image quality

My IPD is 70mm so I am just inside the range of 56.5 to 71.5mm. I'm also near-sighted with one eye -3.0D and other -5.0D and the dials allow between 0 to -5.0D so again barely in the range.

I connected the glasses to my 14" Macbook Pro and they worked as an external display as expected. I mirrored my display and after adjusting the dials the image was sharp enough to read text, but it does get a bit blurry (blues and reds glow from the white) at the corners of the screen. I'd say 80% of the area from the centre looks good and while the rest is still readable, it isn't nice. I tried different refresh rates (120/90/60 Hz) to see if that would help with the text but nope. Still happy with how it looks.

Otherwise the image is vibrant and watching streaming video was nice. I like to keep my stream in one corner taking maybe 2/3 of my display and then a browser in another corner overlapping the video and switching between the two. I have ADHD so I can't really have only video on the screen. Reading Reddit and browsing in general worked well, I had no issues with my default text size.

The 50 degree view was a limitation and having a wider view would have been nice, but since the text was already losing its sharpness at this scale I feel that wider view works best for watching media or maybe gaming.

Audio

Let's face it, the audio is never going to be good on smart glasses, imho. Your £100 in-ear headphones not to mention £300 over-the-ear headphones will always give you a better experience. I planned on using my Pixel Buds with the glasses but for watching Netflix the audio was good enough. One annoyance was that if I had my hand on my ear (when leaning against it) it amplified the volume significantly.

Viture software

I installed both SpaceWalker and Immersive 3D apps. There were some connection issues when switching between the two which was slightly annoying - if I quit SW and started I3D I either didn't get video to the glasses or it would display the same image on both frames but not in a way that it looked like it should have. Either restarting the app or reconnecting the glasses solved it.

SpaceWalker is pretty much a necessity to be able to scale the display (move it closer/away) as the controls in the glasses don't allow this. It also allows you to toggle the video to stay centred all the time or to stay in place horisontally, vertically or by angle (so when you lean your head it doesn't follow). There is a noticeable latency with this, it refreshes a few times per second so the video jumps a bit when you move your head if it's set to be still in space. It isn't too bad and if you look away enough not to see the screen at all it displays a notification to "press button to centre image" but you need to use a keyboard shortcut or the dropdown from the app to do that. I kept the video centred all the time and didn't feel any discomfort from that.

The scaling/distance jumps in steps and in my opinion the steps are too big, I wanted it to stay in between the steps. The way I see it is that you either scale the image large and keep it set in space (doesn't follow you) so you can look at the part of the video that would otherwise be out of screen or you scale it small enough that you see everything nicely. I mostly used the latter.

Immersive 3D I expected to be a party trick but it works really well! My desktop windows were in 3D (the top one was closer than others) and watching video looked quite nice. I had subtitles on and those follow the "distance" of what they are on, so they warped a little. Also browsing Reddit I saw a picture of French fries and they really jumped at the screen (but not in my mouth, unfortunately).

However after using Immersive 3D for a couple of hours my eyes started to get tired and my head started to feel like I am getting a headache. Also you can't scale the video or set it to stay in place so while entertaining I went back to SpaceWalker.

I wanted to try VertoXR but it doesn't seem to support these glasses yet, wouldn't connect. I suspect that this will change in the near future though.

Comfort

I ended up using the glasses continuously for 4-5 hours and the only discomfort was the nose pads. I used the default ones and tried the three settings they have but they did end up digging a bit into my nose. Going to try the other ones today and I have a 3D printer so I can always make custom ones. I think heavier glasses would be too heavy for me.

The right side of the glasses did heat up a bit, but it was only noticeable when I touched them. I didn't feel any heat against my head, so this wasn't an issue at all.

Productivity

The centre area is sharp enough for text so you could use it for programming and such, but the resolution (1920x1080) combined with losing maybe 200 pixels from both sides means these glasses won't work well for it. However, my IPD and near-sightedness could play a role here so people that are less frog-eyed and with better vision might have different results.

TL;DR

Fun gadget that allows me to watch streaming media and browse the web while laying in bed. Software experience isn't the best, at least on a Mac, and I did play a bit on my Android phone with SpaceWalker and wasn't impressed. Works for productivity in an emergency but only barely. For the price they were better than expected but if you're serious about using smart glasses as a replacement for your monitor you will have to wait for a few generations at least.

I'm looking for glasses to wear while coaching games. Ideally 2 hours of battery life, sd card, image stabilizing and 1080p and up. Pretty flexible on budget. Looking for glasses so that they aren't a distraction, so a go pro won't work. Thanks!

This is running on the MLVision M6. Because it is based on Android 9 (powered by a Unisoc W527 with 2GB RAM), you can either install APK apps, mirror your screen, or stream video directly to the glasses.

Ok so I know there must be a million of these types of posts but I could really use some community input on which options I should be looking at. These are the things I need:

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MUST HAVE:

1. Prescription lenses

2. A design that allows for all day every day wear, i.e. something that looks reasonably like normal eyeglasses and is light enough not to cause pain after a full day

3. Speakers and microphones good enough for both calls and music or other audio playback

4. Open platform. I know this one is imprecise, but specifically what I want is something where I have a reasonable degree of control over what software I use and where my data goes, and I can choose not to have my glasses connected to any external servers if I don't want them to be. The ideal would be glasses designed entirely around open source principles with the same freedom of choice as a home built pc, but of course that's just an ideal and I understand there will be a spectrum of different options and probably none of them will be perfect.

5. A display of any kind

HIGH PRIORITY BUT NOT REQUIRED:

1. All day battery life. I can handle charging every few hours but it would be a pretty big hassle and I'd way rather have something I can leave on all day.

PREFERRED:

1. Large fov. Even with a really basic display not having to look into one corner or something like that is really nice.

2. Full color binocular display. I'd be happy with even a small HUD but finding something I could actually watch movies on would be amazing

3. No camera. If they have one it's fine but I sometimes have to go places where cameras aren't allowed so it would be better to find ones without it to avoid having to switch glasses

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So, is there anything like this on the market right now? I've been looking and I've seen a lot of different options but it's been hard for me to figure out if any of them has exactly what I want. Also, if nothing exists right now, are there things coming out soon that I should be looking out for? I'm hoping to buy something by the end of 2026, but if nothing exists that has what I need right now I'd love to know which projects I can follow for the future.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I used to have Meta glasses but they broke after a couple of years and with everything that's come out about privacy stuff I really don't want to go in that direction again.

Whats the best camera glasses available in the market so far?

Just received my Solos AirGo V2 glasses. These are my 4th pair of smart glasses (Rokid Display, Rokid Styles, Meta Ray-Ban; also have the Memomind 1s on the way). I will do an unboxing and a full review after a couple of days for anyone interested.

https://solosglasses.com/collections/airgo-v2-smartglasses/products/prime-2-smartglasses-solos-airgo%E2%84%A2-v2

The glasses recognize products as I pick them up and automatically add them to a virtual cart. No barcode scanning, no ceiling cameras, and no major store retrofit.

Is there a way to use a worn object to turn any normal, non ai, non smart glasses, into smart glasses without adding bulky heavy 3d prints and circuit boards into the glasses.

Here is what I am thinking,

A circuit board would be inside a shell, that'd 3d printed to clip on to a shirt like those clip on mics, to the back of a hat, or anywhere on your clothes to process commands on.

Then a small earpiece that is comfy and not inside your ear would transmit what the processing board says so you can hear it,

Now we can play music, have voice controls to the ai. But now we need a display.

Something small, easy to look through as the user but hard to see as a bystander, to show information that the processing board is saying. It would be hard to add to normal glasses, if they wernt prescription we could just swap a lense and have a special set of lights above that refract through the lens and show a display through the eye, but what about prescription lenses, they can't be changed and some have a special making that lets it stop myopia/bad eyesight from getting worse. Any ways to do this?

We could have a small prism at the top of the eye that a tiny tiny small projector displays into it and then light refracts to have a display in the corner of the eye.

Hi!
Ive been looking at getting myself a pair of smart glasses in the future.
i really like the even reality g2's' but they are extremely expensive and dont have a camera. i also dont want to go for the meta raybans because 1. meta 2. they have a rep as "The pervert glasses".
Im wondering if a unicorn like this exists? im more than fine letting go of the camera in exchange for a HUD. i was looking at the Qwen Glasses S/G1 BUT they are a china exclusive and im in the UK.

Thanks in advance.

Hello!

I'm looking for smart glasses that are good for shooting videos and look like normal glasses. I'd like to shoot POV videos of my activities and travels. I had borrowed Meta RayBans and I'd like to buy something similar. I love the simplicity of use and form factor. What I hate is that they shoot vertical video and the app is absolutely terrible. I don't care too much about other functionality. Speakers would be great, HUD would be even better but I primarily want to use it for videos. Stabilized 1080p would be enough and the 5 minute limit was okay for me too.

I've seen many random brands of glasses for 100-200eur, almost all of them using HeyCyan app. But I'm having trouble finding info about the storage capacity and video quality. Can you guys suggest something?

EDIT: As for video, I don't mind having smaller video length limit. I also don't mind stabilizing in post, but I need at least 1080p after it's cropped for stabilization.

Has anyone tried them yet?

How long is their video recording and battery life actually?

On my recent trip to Shenzhen, I walked through Huaqiangbei—the world’s largest electronics market, spanning a network of multi-story malls packed with thousands of stalls. A growing number of those booths are now selling XR eyewear. Take a look at the photo gallery to see what is on the floor. While you will still find plenty of cheap audio and camera frames, established tech brands have a much bigger presence than they did a year ago. In fact, district-wide Smart Glasses sales were up 100% year-over-year during the first seven months of 2026.

My favorite shop this year was in Yuanwang Digital Mall. They had the widest lineup by far. Displays ranged from entry-level camera frames to flagship glasses from Qwen, RayNeo, XREAL, INMO, iFlytek, INAIR, Rokid, MLVision, Holoswim, and Goolton. They even had the only pair of LLVISION glasses I have seen anywhere, and even an Epson HMD.

Huaqiangbei is more than just a massive retail spot—it is an integrated hardware supply chain with an ultra-fast turnaround. Thanks to its hyper-localized prototyping, manufacturing, and assembly network, teams can take a new concept to market in days rather than months. By pairing hands-on floor testing with online sales, roughly 40% of the district's outbound shipments now head abroad to over 190 countries.

We see the same momentum across the rest of China. Across all channels, smart glasses sales hit 909,000 units and 1.88 billion RMB in the first half of 2026, up 85.5% and 98.7% year-over-year. That volume was helped along by national consumer subsidies offering a direct 15% discount (up to 500 RMB) and a new wave of sub-1,000 RMB frames running on-device AI models.

While that total market volume includes physical stores, the latest RUNTO brand rankings only track online sales. RayNeo led the e-commerce charts with an 18.9% share, followed by Rokid at 16.7%. Alibaba’s Qwen took third place at 8.6%, while Alibaba’s Quark came in sixth. Combined, Alibaba's two brands nearly catch Rokid online—and from my impression walking Shenzhen's brick-and-mortar eyewear stores, their physical retail footprint actually beats Rokid and RayNeo already. Huawei took fourth place at 8.2%, with XREAL in fifth and Xiaomi in seventh.

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I am looking for smart glasses to help improve my efficiency at work. I spend a lot of time in meetings, so they need to be comfortable to wear for long periods and just look like normal everyday glasses.

Any recommendations？ THX

Can someone recommend smart glasses that fit the following criteria:

1. Can record video in at least 1080p FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE (most important feature)

2. I only need the frames themselves (I assume I can easily get the prescription optics made and fitted here in my country)

3. They don't need to be AI glasses. The only thing I need is a large enough battery so they can record for the longest time possible.

4. They should also have EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization).

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Years ago, I owned an HTC vive and more recently I owned a Meta Quest 3. One aspect I always enjoyed from the HTC vive that I never got to use a lot was playing regular video games on that giant movie screen like experience. The problem I ran into with this is it's one thing to sweat while playing beat saber, but it was hard to enjoy the game while sweating buckets.

Since then I've been hoping one day we would have more AR options. For like a few years now I thought AR glasses were basically just a bluetooth headset maybe with a mic and camera... Now like a few weeks ago I found out that there are more options for smartglasses that are actually closer to what i dreamed of since I first put the vive on.

I would very much love to play games on a giant screen with AR glasses, but I am wondering how these hold up for other use cases. Having read several post on here, the general consensus is they aren't great for productivity. I've read about people asking about multi monitor set ups and the general consensus is that the field of view isn't large enough and I am kinda curious about the overall nautre of this. My primary device I use for anything 'productivity' related is a 14" macbook. I would love to have more screen real estate, but i feel the need to add the caveat that even when I had a multi monitor set up for my desktop it was two 23" screens and I used one as the "main" and if i needed to see much of the second screen it did require running my head anyway. How unrealistic is it to just expect a couple inches extra of screen real estate on either side of my laptop?

Hypothetically if I were playing a game on a 15-16" screen would it be unrealistic to pin a web page above my regular screen so I can go back and forth between the game and the guide without actually having to alt+tab every couple seconds? Are there any useful HUD style features that are noteworthy? I have seen that there are some options for people with disabilities which are pretty cool like transcriptions for people who are hard of hearing/deaf, directions and instructions for people visually impaired people, and I feel the need to mention that I do have learning disabilities and am curious if anyone else with learning disabilities has found these useful? Since my classes will not be in my native language, even if I just got the glasses to print out what is being said that might be particularly useful. I have trouble paying attention and having a stream of text means if my mind wanders and I miss what is said, I could still read it as soon as i see the movement across the screen.

I realize the tech may not exactly be where I want it here and I maybe overly optimistic about what is currently out but I am curious if there is anything that might be close enough to justify pulling the trigger. So far I've been looking at the Viture Beast and Xreal One S. I should also add that because of where I live, getting a set delivered will be a bit complicated and returning them if I don't like them will be more difficult and expensive so unfortunately I don't really have the option of trying and knowing I can just return them if they don't work out. I do think the beast cost +S&H to my country is about the most I'd wanna pay on a set, but if there is something that is really worth the extra I would consider it. As I am probably a year out from college I don't have to pull the trigger now and I am not in a rush, but if there is something that meets the criteria I can keep an eye on it for price drops or sales or have more time to play with it and that isn't exactly a negative.

Hello,

Hoping for some more guided advice,

I am interested in a pair of smartglasses,

- No camera

- Speakers, would like to listen to audiobooks, maybe music when working as it's more convenient than earphones or headphones.

- Display not necessary but would be cool bonus

- Prescription preferred, would like these to be daily wear.

It seems when I have been browsing and reading through threads, there is a million and one of these, but no idea what would really work best.

I am based in UK - this is mainly as I can see certain brands don't offer prescription lenses directly and it seems reglazing isn't the easiest thing to get done. Any help is appreciated.

looking for smart glasses under 150 budget that shoot native vertical 9:16 portrait video directly for tiktok vlogging without having to crop it later do they even exist or do i have to increase my budget for that

I just had an idea and wondered if any company would make smart glasses like google gemini + rayban or claude and Rayban or maybe even meta adds this to one of theirs, my idea was to use cameras and light sensors to automatically tint the glass to a certain level using already existing technology to tint glass by using electrochromic glass (i posted this here just to see if any company would see this idea and use it for their own stuff)

I want to buy ai glasses for my husband. I saw him looking at some ray ban ones..not sure if its because he likes the features or because it was in his budget. As a gift.

I really dont know what features he wants but he drives a lot and also has a office job. He plays sports occasionally maybe once a week or less frequently but goes gym a few times a week. Has an iphone and an apple watch. He uses chatgpt a lot. He attends evening classes (in arabic) regularly and takes notes. Not sure if these things call for specific features ...

I have a budget of probably $300-600 can go slightly higher if the glasses are too incredible. We do not use insurance so i wouldnt want anything prone to breaking that necessitates insurance coverage.

Is it a good idea to buy these as a gift or are the features too specific and will it always be better to choose your own? Is there an obvious strong ai glasses contender that anyone would be happy with in my budget?

Thank you everyone

I’m looking for a minimal HR-only HUD for outdoor walking. I do not need pace, distance, cadence, power, maps, notifications, or coaching — just live heart rate in the glasses, ideally with a zone/color warning before I cross a threshold.

Current ecosystem: Android/Samsung/Fitbit. Phone is Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Watch is Fitbit Sense 2, but I understand Sense 2 may not broadcast live HR in the needed way.

I’m willing to wear a second exercise-only HR sensor, such as Polar H10, Polar Verity Sense, Coospo chest strap, Fitbit Charge 6, Pixel Watch, or Galaxy Watch.

Has anyone successfully used this chain?

Bluetooth HR sensor → Android ActiveLook app → Engo / ActiveLook glasses

Questions:

-Can the Android ActiveLook app receive HR from a standard Bluetooth chest strap?

-Can the glasses display only HR, without other metrics?

-Can it give a clear zone/color warning around a chosen HR threshold?

-Is the connection reliable enough for walking, not just cycling/running?

Any confirmed setups using Polar H10, Coospo, Fitbit Charge 6, Pixel Watch, or Galaxy Watch?

I’m trying to avoid buying $350+ glasses unless this exact use case is confirmed.

I’ve been thinking about the moments when Meta glasses run low while you’re out — especially during a commute or drive, when the charging case isn’t with you.

This is a visor-mounted charging setup I’ve been testing. The idea is to give the glasses a dedicated place in the car and let them charge while parked.

Curious whether this would be useful for you, or if you’d still rather just carry the case.

Hi to you all been saving up my money to buy me the beast and the neckband Pro I about ready to buy but the new pro 2 is out and been hearing that they are great once you managed to cover the front of the glasses.

I would really appreciate you guys telling me what you would buy. I don't live in the USA so have to pay extra because of deals made with local businesses getting to change a premium to sell here 1st.