If you would like a pair of glasses with hands-free video recording and an AI voice assistant, there aren’t a variety of choices, and the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are the clear leader. However Solos, whose good glasses at present solely characteristic audio, says it’ll promote a camera-equipped model later this 12 months — with OpenAI’s new GPT-4o AI model to let the digital camera acknowledge objects and reply questions on what you’re seeing.
The Solos AirGo Imaginative and prescient additionally embody the identical swappable body system as Solos’ different glasses so you may swap out the digital camera — for those who’re going someplace a digital camera wouldn’t be socially acceptable, or for those who’d simply relatively have a different look or some sun shades instead. Further frames price between $89 and $129.
The Imaginative and prescient may even have notification LEDs to warn you of incoming calls or emails, the corporate says, and the corporate claims they may also be built-in with Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI fashions. Like Meta’s Ray-Bans, they’ll reply questions over audio — they don’t have a show aside from the LEDs.
The AirGo Imaginative and prescient don’t have a worth or particular launch date but, however you may anticipate them to price greater than $249.99 — as a result of that’s how a lot Solos will cost for a pair with out the digital camera this July. The Ray-Bans at present nonetheless begin at $299.
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