- Superhexa: Backed by Xiaomi, Superhexa is a Chinese startup that has launched “Jiehuan” branded AI glasses that provide access to large language models (LLMs) and offer voice-guided navigation and AI chat features.
- Solos: Hong Kong-based Solos has introduced its AirGo Vision smart glasses, which enable voice access to Open AI’s ChatGPT. The glasses also have a detachable camera, which enables multimodal AI via GPT-4o.
- Even Realities: This Shenzhen-based startup makes G1 glasses featuring LED microdisplays. Although they don’t have speakers, they do output information in the form of visible green text.
- Liweike: Based in Hangzhou, China, this company developed smart AR glasses, unfortunately branded as Meta Lens S3 glasses. They integrate sports functionality with AI-powered voice interaction with the company’s AI chatbot. One standout feature is an integrated 120-degree ultra-wide 2K high-definition sports camera.
- Sharge: This company’s OptoX AI Glasses have a camera, speakers, and all the trimmings. Users can access ChatGPT-4o by talking and listening. Also, they can function like a dashcam, constantly recording and deleting while retaining only the last 30 minutes of video, which you can watch or keep.
As you can tell from this list, some companies are making audio-only AI glasses, some of which will cost less than $100. Other glasses add holographic heads-up displays, which could cost a few hundred dollars a pair. At least two of these products offer both cameras and interaction with the advanced GPT-4o chatbot, able to essentially do all the stuff from the May 13 OpenAI Spring Update (everything, of course, except get Scarlett Johansson’s voice), but through glasses instead of a smartphone.
Great glasses or cheap glasses?
To oversimplify the coming AI glasses market, the American companies will make them great, and the Chinese companies will make them cheap. The result will be an incredible selection of variable features, quality, and styles.
As a result, we’ll quickly arrive at a place where the question won’t be, “Why buy AI glasses?” It’ll be: “If you’re going to buy glasses, why wouldn’t you buy AI glasses?”