Rokid Glasses, spring 2025, price TBD (but expected to be around $500)
Halliday Glasses, March 2025, $489
Tech companies have been trying to make smart glasses a thing for years now, but they haven’t taken off (Google Glass, anyone?). With the recent success of Ray-Ban Metas, we saw a slew of intelligent glasses at this year’s CES, though unlike the Ray-Ban Metas, these glasses have interior displays that show you information you need at a glance.
Two of my favorites, the Halliday Glasses and the Rokid Glasses, offer real-time language translation that impressed in brief demos. Both glasses have interior displays that almost instantly translate someone’s speech to text so that you can communicate with someone who’s speaking a different language—a solution to a real problem.
The Halliday Glasses embed a display in the interior of the frame, which makes the screen less distracting — but it also means you have to look up and to the right to see the interface (and language translation). The Rokid Glasses display text on the inside of the lenses, which no one can see. Sure, you look like you’re focusing really hard on a distant focal point and not on the person who’s speaking, but the glasses allowed me to converse with someone speaking Mandarin without any lag, and that might be worth looking a little silly.
Both glasses also have AI assistants that you can ask questions of, which could be useful, and Rokid packs a camera in its frame, like the Ray-Ban Metas. The Rokid glasses also charge inside a glasses case that itself charges via USB-C, which is a nice touch.
None of the glasses we saw at CES are the futuristic augmented reality specs of my dreams, but we’re getting closer.
—Caitlin McGarry, senior editor
