Smart glasses are trying to get smarter. In the ongoing quest to find ways to make our faces look more and more normal, companies are trying glasses that promise AI on board that can interact with our lives using embedded cameras. Meta has already paved the way to that future with the present Meta Ray-Bans and future dreams for Meta Orion Full 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 show CES exhibition in Las Vegas and coming this year that are aiming for the same zone.
The RayNeo X3 Pro is an update to the line of AR glasses I've tried beforebut this time they became much smaller. The 3-ounce glasses look pretty everyday normal from the RayNeo photos, but they still feature dual 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 that was on the Quest 2. This time, the glasses use Qualcomm's AR 1 Gen 1 chipset which is focused on reducing the size of glasses and optimizing for artificial intelligence. They still have dual cameras, room tracking and even hand tracking. The X3 Pro is coming later in 2025, at an as-yet-unknown price.
The previous RayNeo X2 glasses were bulky, had limited battery life, and were heavier (4.3 ounces compared to the X3 Pro's 3 ounces). According to reviewersthey also had a very narrow field of view, limiting bright displays to a small floating window.
Will the X3 Pro be better and more reliable? CNET will hopefully be demoing them 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 right now, although it would make sense for them to be at some point.
The RayNeo Air X3 display glasses are similar to those made by Xreal and others, with promised audio and video enhancements.
RayNeo's other new glasses follow familiar shapes: the X3 Air are display glasses, similar to what's available from Xreal and others. The RayNeo promises a 200,000:1 contrast ratio, an equivalent 201-inch virtual display and better sound, but they don't seem to be able to automatically dock screens like the new ones Xreal One cups it can – and there are no specifics on field of view or screen type. The V3, meanwhile, are camera-equipped glasses with audio, similar to Meta's Ray-Bans. All of these glasses look set to arrive towards the second half of this year, but again, no pricing is available yet.
However, what stands out to me is how much smaller the X3 Pro glasses are. AR glasses are starting to arrive that come close to the kind of things Meta promises, though the RayNeo's field of view is undoubtedly much smaller…and its software services are still relatively unknown.