{"id":112178,"date":"2025-08-26T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:12:06","slug":"these-smart-glasses-have-something-that-meta-ray-ban-owners-desperately-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112178\/","title":{"rendered":"These Smart Glasses Have Something That Meta Ray-Ban Owners Desperately Want"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta might be the splashiest purveyor of smart glasses<\/a> out there, but Zuck\u2019s house isn\u2019t alone in chasing AR eyewear. In fact, if you want a pair of smart glasses with a display in them\u2014frames that are technically more advanced than Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans<\/a>\u2014you can buy one<\/a> right now, and upstarts like Rokid<\/a> are among the few offering that in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Rokid just unveiled its new smart glasses, aptly dubbed Rokid Glasses, which pack a monochrome display in each eye with 1,500 nits of max brightness. Those displays (which are green-colored micro LED) can be used for simple app-like tools like navigation and even a \u201cteleprompter\u201d that can show scrolling text for presentations and keynotes. Game over, regular teleprompters; it\u2019s time for nerd glasses to shine.<\/p>\n

\"Rokid\u00a9 Rokid <\/p>\n

Rokid is also claiming that its smart glasses are the lightest camera-equipped specs that combine audio, AI, and AR. That\u2019s a lofty claim, to be sure, but the Rokid Glasses are objectively light. According to the company, they weigh just 49 grams, thanks to a magnesium-aluminum alloy frame. That\u2019s around the same weight as Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans, which weigh between 48 and 51 grams, though Meta\u2019s don\u2019t have a display of any kind. Arguably more so than the weight, I\u2019m curious about how slim Rokid Glasses look and whether they can match Meta\u2019s regular sunglasses-like form factor.<\/p>\n

Like any modern pair of smart glasses, Rokid Glasses will also come with a camera that has a serviceable 12-megapixel sensor and can record in up to 60 frames per second, though Rokid doesn\u2019t say for how long. One thing I love (at least on paper) about the camera functionality of Rokid Glasses is that Rokid allows you to take pictures and record videos in different aspect ratios (3:4, 9:16, 4:3), unlike Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans.<\/p>\n

There are also speakers for open audio<\/a> (great for listening to music) and a four-mic array for taking calls and using voice assistants like ChatGPT<\/a>. Since we\u2019re already talking about AI; Rokid Glasses will come with a host of AI features similar to Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans, including object recognition, real-time translation, and AI transcription (asking your smart glasses to read text printed on a menu or sheet of paper). Those aren\u2019t novel, but they\u2019re increasingly standard when it comes to the new wave of AI-powered smart glasses.<\/p>\n

One thing I\u2019m very curious about is the battery life. According to the company, the Rokid Glasses have a 210mAh battery, which sounds solid, though smart glasses with a display have a habit of eating up battery life very quickly, and if you\u2019re listening to music and using a voice assistant at the same time, demand on the battery piles up quickly. At least they support fast charging for when you need a quick top-up.<\/p>\n

Rokid Glasses will be pricier than a pair of Meta Ray-Bans, but that\u2019s to be expected given the fact that they can do quite a bit more with two built-in displays. Rokid says a Kickstarter campaign<\/a> will start pricing at $499, and the glasses will MSRP at $599, though there\u2019s no current launch date outside of the crowdfunded launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta might be the splashiest purveyor of smart glasses out there, but Zuck\u2019s house isn\u2019t alone in chasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[13654,8547,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-112178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-meta-ray-bans","9":"tag-smart-glasses","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}