Sensible glasses are all making an attempt to get smarter. In an ongoing quest to seek out methods on our faces, firms are pitching ever-more-normal-looking glasses promising AI onboard that may work together with our lives utilizing built-in cameras. Meta’s already laid out a path to that future with present Meta Ray-Bans and future goals of Meta Orion full AR glasses, whereas Google and Samsung have plans for AR glasses utilizing Android XR. RayNeo, one other AR glasses firm, has a pair of compact AR glasses introduced at this 12 months’s CES present in Las Vegas and coming this 12 months that goal for a similar zone.
The RayNeo X3 Professional is an replace to a line of AR glasses I’ve tried earlier than, however they’ve gotten rather a lot smaller this time round. The three-ounce glasses look fairly on a regular basis regular from RayNeo’s photographs, but they’ve built-in twin Micro LED shows which might be projected onto the clear lenses by way of wave guides. RayNeo’s earlier glasses had a VR chip to energy its AR/AI options, the identical chip that was on the Quest 2. This time, the glasses use Qualcomm’s AR 1 Gen 1 chipset that is targeted on shrinking glasses’ measurement and optimizing for AI. They nonetheless have twin cameras, room monitoring and even hand monitoring. The X3 Professional is coming later in 2025, at a still-unknown value.
The earlier RayNeo X2 glasses had been cumbersome, had restricted battery life and had been heavier (4.3 ounces in contrast with 3 ounces on the X3 Professional). In keeping with reviewers, additionally they had a really slim subject of view, limiting the brilliant shows to a tiny floating window.
Will the X3 Execs be higher and extra dependable? CNET will hopefully get to demo them quickly, so we’ll know extra. These glasses additionally are not a part of Google’s upcoming AR- and AI-focused Android XR proper now, though sooner or later it might make sense for them to be.
The RayNeo Air X3 show glasses are much like ones made by Xreal and others, with promised audio and video enhancements.
RayNeo’s different new glasses comply with acquainted varieties: the X3 Air are show glasses, much like what’s accessible from Xreal and others. RayNeo guarantees a 200,000:1 distinction ratio, a 201-inch equal digital show and higher audio, however they aren’t in a position to auto-anchor shows like the brand new Xreal One glasses can – and there aren’t any specifics on subject of view or show kind. The V3, in the meantime, are camera-equipped glasses with audio, much like Meta’s Ray-Bans. All of those glasses appear like they’re arriving towards the second half of this 12 months, however once more, with no costs accessible but.
What stands out to me, although, is how a lot smaller the X3 Professional glasses are. AR glasses approaching the kind of stuff Meta’s promising are beginning to arrive, though RayNeo’s subject of view is undoubtedly far smaller…and its software program providers are nonetheless a relative unknown.
