The Best Smart Glasses to Augment Your Reality

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Other Smart Glasses We’ve Tested

We’ve tested several more pairs of smart glasses—some good and some bad.

Rokid Max 2 Glasses for $529: The Spider-Man style lenses give these comfortable smart glasses a bit of character, though they won’t be to everyone’s taste. They project a 215-inch screen (1,080p, 120 Hz, 600 nits, 50-degree FoV) and boast diopter dials for focus adjustments, but I struggled to eliminate blurring around the edges, and instead of stylish electrochromic dimming, there’s a clip-on plastic blackout shield. I also tried the Rokid Station 2 ($299), which adds an Android TV interface to access entertainment apps but also a trackpad and air mouse for easier control. The original Rokid Station ($139) is a more basic portable Android TV.

Even Realities G1 for $599: The Even Realities G1 Smart Glasses (6/10, WIRED Review) are perhaps the closest smart glasses with a projected HUD that could pass for regular glasses, but they don’t have cameras or speakers. WIRED reviewer Chris Haslam praised them as smart glasses you’ll want to wear, with a hugely impressive HUD projector that displays crisp, green digital text (640 x 200 pixels). They provide notifications and boast AI assistance for turn-by-turn navigation and audio language translation, but neither feature works perfectly, and the Perplexity-powered AI service can be slow to respond to queries.

RayNeo Air 2S for $400: TCL-owned RayNeo has a lot of models, and while the Air 2S glasses are cheaper than our other virtual screen picks, I found them inferior in design, fit, and comfort. They offer a 201-inch virtual screen (1,080p, 120 Hz, 600 nits), but it is blurry around the edges. RayNeo’s software, required for 3 DoF, is very buggy and unpolished. The 2S are only slightly better than the older TCL RayNeo Air 2 XR Glasses (5/10, WIRED Review) with enhanced sound, brightness, and adjustability, but they suffer the same failings.

Amazon Echo Frames for $300: The Amazon Echo Frames (3/10, WIRED Review) are a bit old now, but you can still purchase them. Too bad they don’t do much. They work as sunglasses, filter blue light, and are IPX4-rated. Tech-wise, they have a speaker and microphone in each temple, and you can use them to query or command Alexa, as you would with a smart speaker, but there are no cameras here, making them far less capable than the similarly priced Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Lucyd 2.0 Bluetooth Sunglasses for $149: The Lucyd 2.0 Bluetooth Sunglasses (7/10, WIRED Review) are much like the Echo Frames, with a choice of frames and lenses. They connect to your phone and act like a Bluetooth headset, with speakers and microphones in the temples, enabling you to listen to music, get audio directions, and query your AI voice assistant.

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