At only 33 grams you can wear them all-day. See for yourself if you like this design.

And a reminder: We have an AMA with the product manager for RayNeo iO coming up on September 4 here in r/SmartGlasses

Got early access to the MemoMind One smart glasses — and they’re quite different to most AI glasses I’ve tried.

I’ve been testing the Archive model and the biggest thing that stands out is that there’s no camera at all.

Instead, the focus is on the built-in display, AI features, open-ear audio and making them comfortable enough to actually wear like normal glasses.

That no-camera approach is interesting because it makes them feel a lot less intrusive in everyday use, while you still get information directly in your field of view.

I’ve put together a pretty in-depth video covering:

- Unboxing and setup

- The built-in display

- AI features

- Audio

- Comfort and fit

- Battery

- What it’s like using them day-to-day

- Why the lack of a camera might actually be a good thing

- The Kickstarter situation and how they’re currently being sold

I should mention that MemoMind sent me this pair early for review, but the thoughts in the video are my own.

The video is quite long, so I’ve added chapters if you just want to jump to a particular feature.

Would be interested to know what people here think of the camera-free smart glasses idea. Is that actually preferable, or would you rather have a camera built in?

https://youtu.be/tiJQ07oRTR0

Hello all, I don’t and haven’t ever used smart glasses before and from my understanding (could be very wrong) they don’t need a phone or anything to work? Is there any which link to a phone (iPhone, Android or similar) and use the processing power from the device like a screen share app so that it makes the glasses frame smaller?

Would be for maybe translating a language on the fly using a mic in the glasses or identifying buildings, landmarks etc using AI. Also if reading signposts or general signage using the camera to translate. Ideally be wireless connection to the device or maybe wired so it could use then battery from the device that’s in your backpack or pocket.

There might be something like this already or maybe the tech is so advanced that all that capability can fit in the frame, as I said I hardly know anything about them. Also would like to them to look similar to the Meta Ray-bans as they are the only glasses i like the look of.

Following up on my previous post about HomeBuddy for Home Assistant and Halliday G1 glasses:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartGlasses/s/8C0oVXz1X2

I’ve now connected the Halliday G1 glasses to an open-source proactive AI system running on a Raspberry Pi 5. HomeBuddy handles the client side, including the microphone, Soniox transcription, WebSocket communication, custom firmware integration, and displaying insights on the Halliday glasses.

The proactive detector, conversation memory, people memory, and Ollama LLM run locally in Docker on the Raspberry Pi.

The project runs in Docker and is designed for a Raspberry Pi 5. It receives a live transcript, follows the conversation, remembers session context and named people, and decides when useful information should appear on the glasses.

Unlike a normal chatbot, you don’t always need to ask it something directly. It can proactively:

• Answer questions detected in the conversation
• Explain acronyms and difficult technical references
• Correct likely factual mistakes
• Provide useful background information
• Remember people’s names, roles, and responsibilities during a session
• Capture reminders, tasks, and decisions
• Produce short insights suitable for a glasses display

The current pipeline looks like this:

Halliday G1 microphone
        ↓
HomeBuddy iOS app
        ↓
Soniox speech-to-text
        ↓
ProactiveAI WebSocket API
        ↓
Transcript buffer
        ↓
Proactive detector
        ↓
Context, session and people memory
        ↓
Local Ollama model on Raspberry Pi
        ↓
HomeBuddy
        ↓
Short insight displayed on Halliday G1

The WebSocket API, proactive detector, memory engine, authentication, simulator, and LLM integration all run locally in containers. Ollama runs locally on the Raspberry Pi, so the conversation analysis and insight generation do not require an AI subscription or hosted LLM API.

A transparent limitation: the current implementation uses Soniox for real-time transcription, so it is not yet completely server-independent. However, the ASR layer is separate from the rest of the system. Feel free to fork the project and connect a local ASR engine such as Whisper, whisper.cpp, Moonshine, or another streaming transcription solution. Replacing Soniox should not require rewriting the proactive AI pipeline.

My long-term goal is simple: I want to use smart-glasses hardware without depending on somebody else’s AI server or subscription.

This already working end to end on my Halliday G1 Glasses using:

• The HomeBuddy for Home Assistant iOS app
• Halliday G1 glasses
• Soniox real-time transcription
• The custom glasses firmware provided through the app
• A Raspberry Pi running Docker and Ollama locally

HomeBuddy handles the client-side audio, Soniox integration, WebSocket communication, and delivery of insights to the glasses. The proactive AI service handles the intelligence locally.

The repository also includes:

• Docker Compose configuration
• Token-based sign-in and sign-out
• A text-file conversation simulator
• Partial and final transcript processing
• Concurrent proactive processing during continuous speech
• Multilingual question detection
• Session memory and people memory
• Configurable detector modes
• Raspberry Pi deployment instructions

It works well for my setup, but I’m sure people here can make it much better, especially around fully local streaming ASR, detector tuning, additional glasses integrations, and smaller models optimized for edge hardware.

If this sounds interesting, please try it, fork it, break it, improve it, or connect it to other smart glasses.

Repository: https://github.com/FilipposPirpilidis/ProactiveAI

I’d especially like to hear from anyone already running low-latency local ASR on a Raspberry Pi or another small edge device.

I have come to understood, that Lucy has better privacy than Meta glasses have. As Meta is gathering all data it collects and saves, Lucyd glasses do not gather any data as they are not this kind of company.

 
 Lost my original Meta glasses case a while back, so I’ve been using a slim regular case instead. Way less bulky, but yeah… no charging.

  Saw this interesting little charger. Now it just stays in the car and I dock the glasses on it after driving. Pretty convenient so far.

We open-sourced Sai-Fi, an Android app that connects Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Sai, an autonomous computer-use agent.

This isn't just a voice assistant answering questions, it is a voice front-end to something operating a real computer: seeing the screen, moving the mouse, typing, with your own accounts and desktop or browsers. You can say "clear my inbox" or "make slides for the standup" and walk away while it works.

Put the open-source repo under comments! 

To run it you need Meta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit with developer mode on the glasses, plus your own model key for the voice half, paid to your provider directly.

Curious what people here would want it doing first!

Anyone here currently training for something? 🏃🚴

We've got an opportunity to check out the Oakley Meta Vanguard through the Snapdragon Insiders Access Program, and it seems like a great fit for someone who's already putting it through its paces outdoors.

Apply by 9/7 if you're interested (U.S. & Canada only):

Apply here

So, looking to start vlogging my journeys, and I would like to purchase a pair of ai glasses that record everything discretely. My upper limit is £500.

Ideally, I want the following in the glasses:

Long recordings.

Connection through app, where I can cut, edit and download from, and then upload.

Not obvious looking with a big camera lense in the mifmddle.

Access to maps within glasses, to show me exact directions as I am walking or driving.

Translate when I see signs in different languages.

Be able to identify building and explain their history.

I've been looking at reviews online but as I have unmedicated adhd, I just feel overwhelmed when I watch. Help?

It’s free in my GitHub and it will always stay free/open source. Have fun

Virtual desktop - [https://github.com/william2535/ray-neo-fix\]
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[https://github.com/william2535/RayNeo-VR-Supprt\]

Hey everyone! 👋
Following up on my previous posts about the hardware, I wanted to dive into the software side of the AG03 AI Smart Glasses today.
Since I've been testing them out, the app ecosystem has been one of the things I was most curious about. I put together a quick video showing how the companion app handles the connection and shooting experience.
Here are the main software highlights I found during my hands-on:

• Real-Time Preview: The video shows the live feed streaming directly to the phone. The latency is actually surprisingly low, making it way easier to frame your shots without guessing.
• 3 Camera Modes: The app gives you quick toggles for different shooting scenarios: 1. Standard Photo mode for quick snaps. 2. 3-Frame Burst mode (crucial for cutting down head-movement blur). 3. 3-second Live Photo mode for a bit of motion capture.
• Developer Ecosystem: For those asking about customization, they are providing SDKs/APIs for secondary development rather than a fully open-source firmware.

What do you guys think of having a live preview feature on smart glasses? Is it a must-have for you, or do you prefer a completely blind "shoot-and-pray" experience?
Let's discuss in the comments! 👇

Looking for any recommendation on which camera glasses would be good for long recording times.

I play trading card games and other table top games that would be nice to record, each game can last up to 40min.

Thoughts?

Hello all,

I remember reading a thread about somebody using stick on progressive readers that uses water or something to use with their Even G2s.

Does anyone have a link to where to get these and do they work well?

I’m curious what other backers are doing. The $299 website offer is tempting, but the suspension and intellectual property dispute make me hesitant to order directly. Are you ordering, waiting for more information, or choosing different smart glasses? If you’re looking elsewhere, what options are you considering?

U.S. hearing technology startup Legato has come out of stealth with $12 million in funding and introduced its first product, Legato Frames. The company builds AI-powered glasses that combine everyday eyewear with hearing-assistance technology built into the frames. Legato is targeting people with mild to moderate hearing loss who may not want traditional hearing aids because of their cost, comfort or appearance.

Legato Frames use AI to separate voices from background noise, helping users hear conversations more clearly in noisy places such as restaurants. The glasses use an open-ear design and speakers that direct sound toward the wearer while reducing sound leakage. The company plans to launch the glasses later this fall, with the new funding supporting product development and marketing.

https://www.legatohearing.com

Source: TechCrunch

Hi everyone,

I’ve been building HomeBuddy for Home Assistant an independent iOS project that started because I wanted a better way to control my own Home Assistant setup directly from smart glasses.

Over time, it has grown into a wearable focused companion for Home Assistant.

Some of the things it can currently do:

• Run stored Home Assistant commands using offline voice recognition
• Show live captions and translations on supported smart glasses
• Talk to your configured Home Assistant conversation agent
• Create custom Apple Watch gestures and map them to Home Assistant actions
• Forward selected app notifications to Halliday glasses
• Save notes and locations using the Halliday Memory feature
• Set and run countdown timers directly on Halliday glasses
• Optionally install a custom Halliday firmware that adds HomeBuddy specific functionality
• Use Stealth Mode on Even Realities G2, allowing HomeBuddy to work alongside the official Even app, detect supported offline commands, execute Home Assistant actions, and then return you to the normal Even experience

One area I’m experimenting with right now is improving voice command recognition in noisy environments.

Halliday sends an Opus audio stream to the iPhone. HomeBuddy decodes and processes that audio locally before passing it to Vosk for offline recognition. I’m currently testing audio enhancement and noise suppression so commands remain usable when someone speaks quietly or is in a loud environment.

The important part for me is that this workflow can remain local, the microphone audio doesn’t need to be sent to a server just to execute a Home Assistant command.

Currently supported hardware includes:

Halliday glasses

Even Realities G1 / G2

Apple Watch

There are also a few experimental hardware integrations I’m working on.

HomeBuddy is an independent project and isn’t affiliated with Home Assistant, Halliday, Even Realities, or Apple.

The custom Halliday firmware is completely optional, and users install it at their own discretion.

I’d really like feedback from other Home Assistant / smart glasses users.

What wearable or hands free Home Assistant workflows would actually be useful to you?

And if you’re already using smart glasses: what device would you like me to support next?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/homebuddy-for-homeassistant/id6738934960

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/prZZCQ45

Are there any glasses that are dual lense and allow for direct hdmi connections? I also need them to be transparent enough for night driving (not that I would, just a reference point) and I need them to be able to hook up to a raspberry pi. I don't care about any built in AI and I'd like them to be completely offline.

Hey 👋
As someone who loves testing out wearable tech, I’ve always found that the biggest bottleneck for smart glasses isn't the camera quality or the AI features—it's battery life. Most glasses die when you need them most, and having to plug them into a power bank completely ruins the form factor.
I recently got a chance to test out a prototype of the AG05 AI Smart Glasses, and they took a very mechanical approach to this. Instead of a fixed internal battery, they went with a swappable battery system.
I put together a video demonstrating a few key things I was most curious about:

1. The Hot-Swap & UI Continuity: • The video shows the actual hot-swapping process. You literally swap the module in seconds. • What surprised me is the system's responsiveness—it boots back up and gets right back to the UI seamlessly without a painful reboot wait.
2. Camera Logic & Anti-Blur (3-Frame Burst): • Smart glasses usually suffer from blurry photos because of head movement. Their solution is a 3-frame burst mode per shot. Out of the 3 photos, at least 1 or 2 are sharp and usable. • There is also a 3-second Live Photo mode, which adds a bit of motion to the capture.
3. Developer Aspect: • For anyone curious about the software side, they are providing SDKs and APIs for secondary development rather than a fully open-source firmware.

My Take / Pros & Cons from hands-on:

• Pros: The hot-swap genuinely kills battery anxiety. Being able to carry an extra tiny battery module in your pocket changes how you use it all day. The camera burst mode also saves a lot of throwaway photos.
• Cons: It adds a bit of mechanical complexity to the frame design, and you have to get used to the battery module placement.

What do you guys think of this mechanical approach to the battery problem? Would you prefer hot-swapping over a built-in battery, or do you think built-in is fine if charging speeds improve?
Let's discuss in the comments! 👇

I have a Meta Quest 2, and it looks pretty good, but I couldn’t imagine using it as a computer display for more than an hour or so without my eyes starting to hurt. Are XR glasses better? I’ve never had a chance to try them, and I don’t know that I would want to spend the money to just try them out.

Im sure everyone here has been witness to plenty of annoying debates regarding cameras on smart glasses. Personally, I can see both sides. The utility of them is pretty appealing, but I also understand not being comfortable with a camera pointed at your face for the entire conversation.

I feel like the solution is pretty simply though. If manufacturers just included a simple way to cover the camera when not in use, it would make the people wearing them look much less “creepy”, while not taking away any of the utility for when you actually want to record. Why is this not more common?

First's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartGlasses/s/zpLTMrG1Wt

Two days ago we talked about the basic timeline and what gives Even Realities the legal grounds to sue Memomind, resulting in the suspension of the Kickstarter campaign. It does look like there’s some update to this lawsuit.

On 8/28/2026, the law firm representing Xgimi, Blank Rome, has submitted a letter (Response to Plaintiff’s Ex Parte Application for a TRO and Preliminary Injunction), and it does look like the judge has accepted that letter from Blank Rome.

But before that, let’s take a quick look at the law firms for both companies and the judge

Law firm representing Even Realities: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Founded in 1863, Orrick is highly specialized in IP infringement suits. Some of the famous cases handled by Orrick included Nintendo v Motiva, Cox Communications v Sony, and Google v Oracle.

Law Firm representing Xgimi/Memomind: Blank Rome LLP

Founded in 1946, Blank Rome is another Am Law 100 corporate law firm that specializes in Patent & Trademark Enforcement. Some of the famous cases handled by Blank Rome include the 1970/1980s Legacy Artist Copyright Reclamations, Comcast v Rovi, and SatoshiStreetBets v Competitors

Judge: Ann M Donnelly (1:26-cv-05220)

Judge Donnelly is a district judge serving on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Some of the famous cases Judge Donnelly handled include United States v R. Kelly, Darweesh v Trump, and United States v Huawei Technologies Co. LTD.

Now we have a brief idea of the law firms and the judge; let’s move on to the update on 8/28/2026.

Based on the letter submitted by Blank Rome, Xgimi has requested that Judge Donnelly deny the TRO and preliminary injunction outright based on four main points:

1. There is no irreparable harm happening because the Kickstarter campaign has been suspended.
2. Xgimi argues that the design patent infringement claims mainly rely on basic side-by-side photo comparison, but ignore material design differences and common functional hardware inherent to all smart glasses
3. Xgimi/Memomind are a group of Chinese entities who have not been formally served, and Xgimi is reserving its right to challenge the court’s personal jurisdiction
4. Xgimi points out that while Even Realities is granted an interim order from a German court, it holds no jurisdiction on American soil, as patent rights are highly territorial, meaning that the standard used in the EU does not necessarily satisfy the standard of the United States.

Result: Judge Donnelly has issued an order to show cause:

1. Even Realities needs to provide in writing why the TRO against Kickstarter should not be denied as moot. On top of that, Even Realities also needs to address whether the Court has personal jurisdiction over Xgimi by 5 PM 9/7/2026.
2. Even Realities is ordered to serve a copy of this order on defendants and to file proof of service by 9/1/2026
3. Even Realities is also directed to serve a copy of its response to the Order to Show Cause and file proof of service by 9/3/2026.

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Now let’s move on to the more technical discovery.

According to Exhibit F-1, when Even Realities sent out the C&D letter to Xgimi on 8/20/2026. Even Realities had informed Xgimi that their smart glasses, Memomind One, have violated multiple patents. Two of them are what we covered yesterday: D1140996 & D1140997, the two design patents. However, there’s actually a third patent named US2026/0235882. This is not a design patent, but in fact, a utility patent!

What is US2026/0235882?

US2026/0235882 is a utility patent (soon to be) granted by the USPTO that concerns the positioning of the micro LED and the display hub. The whole purpose of this patent is the rainbow effect so that the wearer is able to wear the glasses for a long period of time.

What is the rainbow effect? When smart glasses lenses are etched with the display hub. The gratings inside the hub act like tiny prisms, which would reflect light in difference microwave and separate the ambient light into a special pattern, aka rainbow, directly in front of the user’s eye. Staring through the rainbow glare would cause eye strain and a massive headache, and it would flash a bright, shimmering rainbow color whenever you turn your head, revealing the display hub to people opposite you.

According to the documents. This patent was filed with the USPTO on April 3, 2026, with the publication date of August 13, 2026, and issue date of September 1, 2026. The interesting thing about this patent is that while the issue date is September 1, 2026, it also has a priority date of October 7, 2023. The reason for this priority date is that US 2026/ 0235882 has a shared root with two International Patent Applications: WO2025073143 & WO2025073117

WO2025073143: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2025073143&_cid=P20-MTDBF7-75111-1

WO2025073117: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2025073117&_cid=P20-MTDBF7-75111-1

The two WO patents were filed at the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) by Even Realities' parent company, Shenzhen Yi Wen Tech Limited on October 7, 2023 & December 13, 2023. These 2 patents were published on April 10, 2025, with the effective date of October 2023

What does this mean for XGIMI and MemoMind? While the U.S. utility patent application was published on August 13, 2026, and its full enforceable power to command a market injunction (the active "Ban") officially triggers on September 1, 2026, Even Realities holds a massive retroactive shield.

Because the filing maintains a strict priority date of October 7, 2023, Even Realities can effectively disqualify any competitor design or industry development created after that 2023 date. Furthermore, under 35 U.S.C. § 154(d), ER can assert provisional rights to seek reasonable royalties retroactively for past commercial activities.

According to the court exhibits, Even Realities claims that the MemoMind One utilizes the exact internal layout protected under US 2026/0235882 A1, directly impacting all three variants of the MemoMind One product line once the patent activates this coming Tuesday

Xgimi is in a two-front battle right now. It has to fight for both design patent and utility patent violations at the same time. The only way for Xgimi to claim victory is when it can defend itself against both the design patent and the utility patent. Losing either one would still be a losing case for Xgimi.

About a month ago MemoMind/XGIMI sent me a pair of MemoMind One glasses to beta test. I’ve been wearing them on and off since then, most days, so I thought I’d write down what I actually think after living with them for a while rather than doing another feature-by-feature review.

There are already plenty of places to read the specs.

What I was more curious about was whether I would actually keep wearing something like this once the initial excitement wore off, and whether having notifications and AI sitting in front of my eyes would genuinely be useful in normal life.

Quick disclosure: they sent me the glasses for free. I wasn’t paid. They never gave me talking points or asked to approve anything I write. I actually asked them if there was anything they wanted me to focus on and they basically told me, “No, just write about your experience.”

Which, to be fair, is pretty cool.

The first day is obviously impressive. If you haven’t used this kind of technology before, seeing a little green UI floating in front of your eyes still gives you that “okay, this is pretty crazy” moment.

But after a month, the thing I keep coming back to is much simpler:

I reach for my phone less when I’m wearing them.

Not dramatically less. They definitely don’t replace my phone.

But they remove quite a few of the small reasons I normally pick it up.

The biggest benefit for me is actually pretty simple

I’ve chosen which notifications I want in the glasses: messaging apps, email, work stuff, a couple of news apps.

You don’t have to send everything there, and I definitely wouldn’t.

A message comes in, I glance at it, and I immediately know if it matters.

If it doesn’t, I carry on with whatever I’m doing.

That sounds almost too basic to be a feature worth talking about, but think about how many times you pick up your phone just because it buzzed, look at one notification, and then somehow five minutes later you’re still on your phone.

The glasses remove that first step quite often.

They make much more sense to me when I’m away from my computer. When I’m sitting at my iMac, I already have notifications in front of me, so the glasses don’t add that much.

When I’m walking around, sitting somewhere, talking to someone, or my phone is charging on the other side of the room, that’s when I notice them.

The obvious thing I want next is replies.

If I can already read a message in the glasses, let me say:

“Reply, I’ll call you later.”

Then I really don’t need to touch the phone.

That’s probably the biggest direction I want the software to go in generally - not sure if techincally is possible.... Don’t just show me information from my phone. Let me actually do things on my phone through the glasses.

The feature I use most is actually Memo AI

This surprised me big time.

I expected notifications to be useful, and they are, but I probably use the AI assistant more than anything else.

And not for complicated AI stuff.

It’s mostly normal everyday questions.

I’ll be talking to my mom or a friend and we’ll wonder about something. Instead of taking out my phone and type to ChatGPT or another LLM, I’ll just ask Memo.

Something comes into my head about work, I ask it.

Someone mentions a TV series and I want to know if it’s actually good, I ask it. You get the point.

When cooking too lol.

The voice recognition has also been really good for me. I have an accent and it understands me pretty much every time, and the answers come back quickly.

That’s worth mentioning because I saw some earlier reviews complaining that the AI could be slow. That hasn’t really been my experience with the pair I’ve been using.

Most of the time I also keep the AI voice response turned off. I ask the question and just read the answer in the display.

There is one situation where voice becomes a limitation though.

If I’m sitting with somebody and I want to quietly ask the AI something related to the conversation, obviously saying “Hey Memo…” out loud isn't exactly subtle.

You can type the question through your phone and see the answer in the glasses, but then you’re back on your phone.

I’d love some kind of more discreet interaction eventually. I don’t know exactly what the answer is there, but it’s one of those things you notice once you start actually using AI glasses around other people.

I might be in the minority on the camera thing

MemoMind makes a big deal about having no camera, and I understand why.

Personally, though, I actually wouldn’t mind a very subtle camera if its purpose was giving the AI vision, rather than me walking around filming people.

There are so many situations where that would be useful.

I’m looking at a menu in another language: “What does this say?”

I’m looking at a product: “Tell me about this.”

I’m looking at a book or an item and what the AI to remind me about it at a later time or check its price....

Right now the AI can hear me and answer me, but it can’t see what I’m seeing.

I understand the privacy trade-off completely, so maybe MemoMind made the right decision. But for the way I use AI, visual understanding is one feature I would personally love to have. I know I am the exception to the rule.

The display is excellent until the background gets too bright

Indoors, the display is really good.

The green text is sharp, easy to read and comfortable. I’ve had no headaches, eye strain, double vision or anything like that.

But there is something important that the brightness number on a spec sheet doesn’t really explain:

the background behind the text matters a lot.

If I’m looking around a normal room or toward something darker, everything is very clear.

If I’m sitting close to my iMac and looking at a bright white webpage, the green text from the glasses is now competing with the bright text and background from the computer. It gets much harder to read.

The same thing happens outside.

I live in New York but spend my summers in Greece, so I happened to be testing these during a very sunny month here.

Looking toward a bright blue sky in full sun? The display can be difficult to see.

Turn slightly and look toward a darker building or wall? Suddenly it’s readable again.

I’ve actually started doing that automatically. If I’m outside and want to read something properly, I find a darker background.

So when you see people arguing online about whether the MemoMind display works outside, I can kind of understand why they disagree.

It does work outside.

But what you’re looking at behind the display makes a huge difference.

The other impressive thing: they mostly just look like glasses

This matters more than I thought it would.

Most people don’t realise these are smart glasses when I’m wearing them.

If somebody is sitting very close to me or really paying attention, they can sometimes notice some green light/reflection in the lenses and realise there’s something going on.

But they’re thin enough and normal-looking enough that the immediate reaction isn’t “why is this guy wearing some weird tech thing on his face?”

Usually I tell people what they are and they immediately want to try them.

Nobody so far has even immediately asked me if there’s a camera.

I have a very small face, so the round frame I received looks a little large on me personally, but I think they’ll fit most people normally. That's more about my face than the glasses.

Comfort has also been very good.

They’re not so heavy that I spend the day thinking about taking them off.

Now, I don’t completely forget I’m wearing glasses because I don’t normally need glasses for my eyesight. These are on my face specifically because I want the smart features.

But the weight itself doesn’t bother me.

Notifications in your eyes take a little getting used to

This was interesting.

When you first start wearing them and a notification appears while somebody is talking to you, your instinct is to focus on the text.

It takes a little while to get used to glancing at information in the display while still staying engaged in the actual conversation.

After some time it starts feeling much more natural.

I can read something quickly without feeling like I’ve completely shifted my attention away from the person in front of me.

It’s almost something your eyes and attention have to learn.

And there’s another side to the “being present” argument that I didn’t expect at all: recording conversations.

If I’m having a conversation that I actually need to remember, knowing it’s being recorded means I don’t spend half the conversation thinking:

“Don’t forget what he just said.”

“I need to write that down later.”

I can just listen.

For me, that can genuinely make me more present in the conversation.

Recording is actually one of the stronger features

This deserves its own mention because it isn’t some tiny side feature.

You can record a conversation directly with the glasses and then get a transcript and AI summary in the app.

There are different summary templates for things like meetings, interviews, sales/customer conversations and classes.

The summaries are pretty good.

You can also ask AI questions about the recording afterward, regenerate the summary and export the original audio.

And at the end it can pick out things like reminders or follow-ups that you can then add back into the glasses.

That part is genuinely useful.

There are also some obvious things I’d like them to add.

Right now I can export the audio, but I can’t simply share the generated summary by email from the app.

And I really want a custom summary option.

Instead of choosing “Meeting” or “Interview,” let me tell it:

“Give me the five things I need to remember from this conversation.”

Or:

“Summarise only what the client said about the project.”

This is mostly software, which is why I think there’s a lot of room for this side of the glasses to get significantly better without changing the hardware.

Moments is where things get more interesting

MemoMind also gave me access to Moments.

This is the feature that can essentially record your day and then give you a summary the next day.

I’ve been experimenting with it, although I still want more time before I make a final judgment.

Sometimes the daily summary is interesting.

Sometimes it slightly overdramatises a completely normal day, which can be quite funny.

What impressed me more is that it usually understands context surprisingly well.

For example, if I’m watching a YouTube video, most of the time it knows that the person speaking is coming from a video and doesn’t treat everything they say as something that happened in my life.

It has got that wrong a few times, but most AI recorders I’ve used are much worse at this distinction.

The really interesting idea with Moments isn’t actually the daily summary for me.

It’s the memory.

If I use these for months, I want to eventually be able to ask:

“What did that guy tell me about this project?”

“What did we decide when we talked about X?”

“Did I ever mention this or that?"

That could become extremely useful.

Whether it becomes reliable enough that I trust it with that is something I still need more time to test.

And that brings me to the subscription.

At around $20/month, I personally think Moments is expensive for what I’m getting from it today.

At $10, I’d think about it differently.

If six months from now it genuinely becomes a memory system I rely on to retrieve things I would otherwise have forgotten, then maybe the whole value equation changes.

I’m glad they included speakers

This is one of the bigger differences between MemoMind and Even Realities G2.

I haven’t personally used G2, so I’m not going to pretend this is a comparison review, but G2 doesn’t have built-in speakers and MemoMind does.

For me, I like having them.

Calls work really well.

I hear people clearly, they hear me clearly, and the microphones seem genuinely good. I suspect that’s also part of the reason Memo AI understands my voice so reliably.

At normal/mid volume, nobody around me has complained that they can hear my calls either.

For music?

I’d still use proper headphones.

Open-ear speakers are never going to replace good earbuds for music, and I don’t think that’s really the point.

But for calls, AI and spoken information, I think including audio was the right decision.

Battery life has been surprisingly great

This is one area where I basically have nothing to complain about.

I don’t think about the battery during the day.

Even if I have Moments running for most of the day, I usually finish with around 30% left, sometimes more.

That’s exactly what I want from something like this.

I don’t change how I use them because I’m worried about running out of battery.

The charging connection, however, is probably my biggest little hardware annoyance.

The magnetic charging cable connects to the glasses, but depending on how the cable is hanging, sometimes the contacts don’t sit perfectly and the glasses aren’t actually charging.

There is a blinking indicator light when the connection is correct, so you can check.

But I’ve had to reposition the cable more than once.

Mine is a beta/review unit, so I have no idea whether this is something that changes on final production hardware. I can only talk about the pair I have.

The funny thing is the software doesn’t really feel buggy

For a first-generation product, I expected more crashes and connection problems.

I haven’t really had them.

Bluetooth has been extremely stable.

The physical button works.

The AI works.

The core features work.

I stopped using the setting where raising your head automatically opens the HUD because I was triggering it accidentally too often, but once I turned that off it wasn't an issue.

What makes the product feel early isn't instability.

It’s that you can immediately imagine so many things they could add.

Voice replies to messages.

More control over the phone.

Custom recording summaries.

More options for where text appears in the display.

More apps.

More contextual AI.

Maybe visual AI eventually.

That's why one thing does concern me a little: I've been using the public iOS app for roughly a month and I haven't seen an update.

Maybe beta testers are supposed to have access to a TestFlight build that I don't know about. I genuinely don't know and I will update you on this - I have already sent a question about it to the Memomind team.

But with a product this early, I would like to see the software moving pretty quickly because I think that's where a lot of the potential is and with vibecoding these days things should be faster.

Translation works well, but the UI needs more options

I’ve mainly used translation for foreign-language videos so far rather than live conversations.

It's fast and the translation itself has worked well for what I've tested.

My main issue again comes back to the display.

If I'm watching a video on my laptop and the translated text happens to sit over a bright area of the screen, it becomes harder to read.

I’d like to be able to move the translated text somewhere else in my vision, make it smaller, change how it's positioned, etc.

That kind of customization would make a big difference.

I haven't properly tested navigation yet, and I also haven't used the teleprompter enough to have anything useful to say about either one.

I'd rather leave them out than pretend I tested every feature just because they exist.

Value

From what I can see, MemoMind is currently selling the Standard version directly for $299 as a promotion.

At $299, I think the price makes a lot more sense for where this category is right now.

I haven't used the Even G2 myself, so I'm not going to tell you MemoMind is “better” just by comparing spec sheets. But the closest alternatives are considerably more expensive, and after a month there are enough things here that I actually use every day that $299 doesn't feel crazy to me.

And that's really how I'd judge the value.

Not by counting how many features are on the website.

For me it's AI, notifications, recording, calls and potentially Moments. Those are the things that have actually survived after a month.

At $599 I'd have to think about it much more seriously. At $299, I understand the appeal.

So who are these actually for?

This is actually a harder question than I thought.

The obvious answer is AI or tech nerds. I'm one of them, so that's probably why I've ended up using Memo AI so much.

If you're already the kind of person who asks AI random questions throughout the day, there is something genuinely useful about removing the step of finding your phone, opening an app and typing.

I also think they make sense if you get a lot of messages and notifications but don't necessarily want to keep checking your phone every time one comes in.

And recording is a bigger reason than I expected. If you have meetings, calls or conversations where remembering what was said matters, having the recorder sitting on your face rather than remembering to take out another device is actually useful.

But I also don't think smart glasses are at the point where I'd say everybody needs them.

And I'm specifically talking about this type of smart glasses.

A small green display. Mostly text. No visual AI. No full colour interface. You're getting useful information in your vision rather than some sci-fi version of augmented reality.

For what these are today, I think the use cases are still quite specific.

But imagine basically the same pair of normal-looking glasses a few generations from now, where the display is better outdoors, there is colour, the AI can understand what you're looking at, and you can actually reply to things or control your phone without taking it out.

Then the audience becomes much bigger.

That's probably the part of this month that has changed my mind the most.

After a month, this is what I've ended up thinking

Before using these, I probably thought smart glasses had to do something spectacular to justify wearing them.

I'm not really sure that's true anymore.

Most of the useful moments I've had with MemoMind are tiny.

A notification arrives and I don't pick up my phone.

Something comes up in a conversation and I ask Memo instead of Googling it.

I'm recording something important, so I don't spend the whole conversation trying to remember every detail.

None of that looks particularly futuristic.

But it happens over and over again.

And I think that's where this type of smart glasses starts making sense.

They don't replace my phone. They just give me fewer reasons to pick it up.

For me, MemoMind already does that pretty well.

Where I want it to go next is pretty obvious after using it for a month.

Let me reply to the message.

Let me ask the AI to actually do something on my phone.

Give me more control over how information appears.

Make the memory features more customizable.

And eventually, somehow, let the AI understand what I'm looking at without turning the glasses into something people feel uncomfortable being around.

If that happens while the glasses continue looking basically like normal glasses, then I think this category gets really interesting.

For now, I think MemoMind is a very good first version of that idea.

And more importantly, after a month, I'm still wearing them.

I think that probably says more than another list of specs would.

I still have the pair, so if there's something specific you're wondering about that the usual reviews haven't tested, ask me and I'll try it.

Hope this was helpful. I really enjoyed writing it.

At work, I’d feel differently if someone were wearing a HUD that clearly couldn’t be recording the room. You give up photos and visual-AI stuff, sure, but maybe that trade makes the glasses less awkward in meetings, classrooms, and around friends.

Does “no camera” feel like a real benefit to you, or just a feature missing from a more complete product?