At the Rokid Glasses 2 launch event, Leqi unveiled the Rokid Color as a One More Thing announcement — its first full-color waveguide glasses, featuring a custom 0.16cc Micro-LED full-color optical engine with 16.77 million colors and 167% sRGB color gamut volume.
On October 27, consumer AR brand Leiniao Innovation officially unveiled its fourth-generation binocular full-color AI glasses, the Leiniao iO+, along with photos featuring actor Jiang Qiming. The new model features rounded frames and retro tortoiseshell elements, and is equipped with the fourth-generation binocular full-color Micro LED waveguide technology. Detailed specifications and launch date have not been disclosed yet.
Qianwen AI Glasses launched upgraded N1 and N1 Pro models. The N1 supports 4K Ultra HD recording, multi-axis stabilization, smart composition and all-day environmental awareness; the N1 Pro is the industry's first AI glasses with real-time vital signs monitoring, capable of tracking heart rate, blood oxygen and skin temperature, and supports eye-tracking interaction and iris-based authentication.
Looktech, a brand under Chehui Technology, unveiled its next-generation AI smart glasses at SILMO Paris, claiming them to be the world's first AI glasses with a brain-computer interface. The product integrates EEG sensors, motion and light sensors, and a WUQI Micro audio chip, supporting health monitoring and AI interactions, with a total weight under 30 grams.
Xreal has officially launched the Android XR-powered Aura smartglasses and opened pre-orders starting at $1,279. Weighing under 95 grams, the device connects to a compute module running Android XR, supports Google Play and Gemini, and comes with a Snapdragon Reality Elite chip, hand tracking, a 70-degree FOV, Bose audio, and two sizes with two storage configurations.
At its Connect developer conference, Meta showcased a new integration with the New York Times Cooking app, bringing its recipes to its display glasses and non-display AI glasses. The feature, not yet available, will add a hands-free mode allowing users to pair their glasses for audio cooking guidance, while Ray-Ban Display glasses will show recipe steps as swipeable cards.
Rokid's second-generation full-featured AI glasses with a display made their global debut at the Global Digital Trade Expo, introducing the world's first multimodal meeting-minutes feature that combines microphone audio and camera image recognition to generate complete meeting notes.
At the 2026 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm and PrismML ran a 2-billion-parameter 1-bit quantized Bonsai vision model locally on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses platform.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta announced a collaboration with Blackpink member Lisa on two Meta Glasses by Lisa models — the Meta Adventurer Lisa Edition and the Meta Capri Lisa Edition — featuring custom frames, charging cases and pet-shaped charms, with support for Meta AI, audio, camera and prescription lenses. The company also updated its Kylie Jenner collaboration with an Ivory Starfire frame, introduced a $249 black Meta Adventurer with plug-in charging case, and priced the Lisa and Kylie styles at $399.
Meta announced that users can opt out of having visual data from its smart glasses used for AI model training; after opting out, such images will not be shown to third-party contractors abroad, and visual data from requests like translating a menu will only be used for immediate answers, not training or human review. Previously, Meta allowed images and video captured through Meta AI to be used for training and sometimes sent them to overseas contractors for labeling.