All these smart glasses and nothing to do

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Follow Follow See All Gadgets All these smart glasses and nothing to do This crop of smart glasses is the most stylish, affordable, comfortable, and capable yet. They still don’t make sense. by Victoria Song Close Victoria Song Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

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Follow Follow See All by Victoria Song Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apr 30, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift Despite only having one face, I made testing work. Victoria Song Close Victoria Song Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Victoria Song is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter.

She has more than 13 years of experience reporting on wearables, health tech, and more. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I’m currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2.

Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I’ve got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their Neural Wristband. In my closet are six pairs of $50 smart sunnies that an overzealous Walmart rep sent me.

Industry Implications

Those sit next to some Xreal, RayNeo, and Lucyd glasses, plus an old pair of Razer Anzu. Later, I’m calling my optician because I’m hoping to test a pair of the new Ray-Ban Meta Optics , which can supposedly handle my challenging prescription. I’m drowning in smart eyewear — and even more is on the horizon.

Right now, it’s difficult to tell these devices apart. Not only do they look alike, but most are similarly unsubtle in their attempts to stick AI on your face. They’re loaded with promises about how wearable AI can change your life: It’ll make you healthier by tracking what you eat, make you smarter by capturing notes on every word you utter, and make you more creative by transforming your surroundings into playlists and date ideas.

But after a year of testing, I’m yet to see anything that lives up to those promises. And if the smart glasses category is going to succeed, it’s going to need a better story for why they should stay on your face all day. A small selection of the smart glasses I’ve been testing over the last six months.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.