Smart glasses are all trying to get smarter. In an ongoing quest to find solutions to our faces, companies are offering ever more normal-looking products. glasses promise on-board AI who can interact with our lives through built-in cameras. Meta has already charted the path towards this future with Meta Ray-Ban and the future dreams of Meta Orion Complete AR Glasseswhile Google and Samsung have plans for AR glasses using Android XR. RayNeo, another AR glasses company, has a pair of compact AR glasses announced at this year’s and upcoming CES Las Vegas show this year that are aimed at the same area.
The RayNeo X3 Pro is an update to a line of AR glasses I already triedbut they became much smaller this time. The 3-ounce glasses look pretty normal for everyday use based on RayNeo’s photos, but they feature two built-in Micro LED displays that are projected onto the clear lenses via waveguides. RayNeo’s previous glasses had a VR chip to power its AR/AI features, the same chip found in the Quest 2. This time, the glasses use Qualcomm’s AR 1 Gen 1 chipset which focuses on reducing the size of glasses and AI optimization. They still have dual cameras, part tracking, and even hand tracking. The X3 Pro will arrive later in 2025, at an as-yet unknown price.
Previous RayNeo X2 glasses were bulky, had a limited lifespan, and were heavier (4.3 ounces compared to 3 ounces on the X3 Pro). According to reviewsthey also had a very narrow field of view, limiting the light displays to a small floating window.
Will the X3 Pros be better and more reliable? Hopefully CNET can demo it soon, so we’ll know more. These glasses also don’t appear to be part of Google’s upcoming AR and AI-focused Android XR at the moment, although at some point it would make sense for them to be.
The RayNeo Air X3 display glasses are similar to those made by Xreal and others, with audio and video improvements promised.
RayNeo’s other new glasses follow familiar shapes: the X3 Air are display glasses, similar to those available from Xreal and others. RayNeo promises a 200,000:1 contrast ratio, a 201-inch equivalent virtual screen, and better audio, but they don’t seem to be able to automatically dock screens like the new one. Xreal One Glasses can – and there are no details on field of view or display type. The V3s, for their part, are glasses equipped with a camera and an audio system, similar to Meta’s Ray-Bans. All of these glasses appear to be arriving around the second half of this year, but again, no pricing is available yet.
What strikes me, however, is how much smaller the X3 Pro glasses are. AR glasses approximating the type of promising Meta stuff are starting to arrive, although RayNeo’s field of view is undoubtedly much smaller… and its software services are still relatively unknown.
