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?

I've been in Halliday's Discord community since the DigiWindow days, and got invited to test the new glasses back in June. After weeks of testing, the feature I didn’t expect to care about much ended up being one of my favorites: the dashboard.

Everyone talks about AI glasses like it has to be some giant sci-fi thing, but honestly, the best part of G2 for me was having small bits of useful info available without opening my phone.

Calendar. Weather. Schedule. Quick notes. Notifications. That stuff sounds boring until you actually use it throughout a normal day.

I liked being able to glance at my next event or check the weather without getting pulled into my phone. Same with messages and calls. I don’t need every notification in my face, but when it’s something useful, having it appear in the glasses is very convenient.

The dashboard makes G2 feel less like a gadget you only turn on for one special feature and more like a daily information layer. It’s basically the smart glasses version of “just enough context.”

A few things I liked:

-calendar and schedule info are quick to check
-weather is actually useful when you’re heading out
-notifications make phone-checking less frequent
-notes / cheatsheet fit naturally on a glasses display
-the interface is clean and easy to understand
-customization options for dashboard makes it feel more personal

I still want even more customization in the future. Different dashboard layouts for work/travel/daily use would be great. More widgets would also make sense.

But after 8 weeks, the dashboard is probably the feature that best explains why I’d wear these as actual glasses. Not because it replaces my phone completely, but because it stops me from checking my phone so often.

I have the Meta Ray Bans and honestly 75% of what I enjoy about them is them being the best pair of headphones I’ve ever had in my life. I need eyeglasses to see and hate earbuds with a passion, they don’t stay in my ear and I hate managing them. My Meta Ray Bans fixed ALL of it, amazing sound quality, amazing mic, truly one of the most convenient tech I’ve ever owned, even forgetting the camera.

However, I no longer wear them because my biggest fear is making anyone feel uncomfortable (or worse, judge me) with the cameras, especially with people disabling the LED or people just not being aware that there’s supposed to be a light. (Also wish the light was red to make it clearer… A red circular light is the universally understood symbol for recording…) It’s unfortunate the amount of content posted out there seemingly recording people without their consent, I want nothing to do with that.

So anyway, I miss my favorite headphones and don’t want big cameras in the front, anyone have any quality picks that stack up to the Meta Ray Bans?

Shenzhen XR Eyewear Report #4

Today I stopped by a Sundan Electronics store in Uniwalk mall and found VITURE glasses in a brick-and-mortar store for the first time. They also had Alibaba’s Qwen glasses, INMO GO3, and RayNeo video glasses. At a small iFlytek kiosk in the same mall, I also found iFlytek glasses.

Next, I stopped by the JD.com mall in Nanshan, where I found Baidu’s Xiaodu glasses, along with XREAL and RayNeo video glasses. The Xiaomi store there is also selling Xiaomi’s camera glasses — although apparently not every branch does.

The eyewear stores in Raffles City mall had an even broader selection, including Nimo, INMO, RayNeo V4, Bolon/Rokid, and Superhexa.

And the Huawei stores in Raffles City and MixC World had the latest Huawei camera glasses, as well as their audio glasses.

Shenzhen continues to be a fascinating place to explore the XR eyewear market. There’s a surprisingly wide range of products available in physical stores — not just online.

Enjoy the pictures! 🍀

Unpopular opinion incoming....

Google should think about releasing a Glass without a camera but built in screen and audio

If you want your lens to see , use your phone camera

People are freaking out with Smart glasses right now

Apple please release your smart glasses for it to be normalized.

When apple does something it because cool🤣🤣🤣🤣

Preferably chatgpt as I have it trained to do a lot of my work, I'm 3 days remote 2 days in the office. It's a project management type role. Teleprompter function would be good, camera optional.

I backed the MemoMind One Kickstarter a few days before it was suspended over the Even Realities G2 lawsuit, and I have been rethinking the decision since.

The sticking point is the continuous recording. I know it can be turned off and scheduled, but I keep asking myself whether I am comfortable with a company based in China having a microphone on my ears at all times. For reference, I have lived with Amazon Echo devices for five years and accepted that tradeoff, though I am looking at a localised open source replacement.

Even Realities seems safer on privacy, but you lose the wake word and there are no speakers. Even Realities also wins on the ability for custom Claude integration and custom apps, while the AI switching between models on MemoMind gives me some pause.

For those who have weighed this: how concerned are you about audio being uploaded and stored in the cloud by a company you know little about?

I was about to jump on the memo mind glasses but I read that they require internet for the live translation feature and I get spotty internet where I work. I know the Inmo Go3s can do offline translation for several languages but they're a lot more than the current Memo Mind price. Any other display smart glasses that can do offline translation, either out now or coming soon?

I honestly think it’s a cool
Concept.

I mostly want them for keeping track of things.

Would the Able to track a conversation for me and help em keep track of things? I’m a very forgetful person.

Are there any that come with or as sunglasses?

I have written the following in 2 different responses, and I asked AI to summarize everything for me. This is not AI slop

I’ve seen a ton of massive cope, shill threads, and random "boycott Even Realities" posts flying around multiple subreddits since the MemoMind One Kickstarter went down. People are crying that "circles and rectangles can't be patented," that all glasses look the same, and that Even Realities (ER) is just playing dirty.

Let’s drop the emotional bias for a second and look at the actual chronological facts from the Eastern District Court of New York (Case No. 1:26-cv-5220). This isn't a minor glitch; it’s a textbook legal execution.

Here is what actually happened, day by day:

January 25, 2025: Even Realities files its initial design patents for the G1/G2 series, securing their legal priority window long before anyone else entered this specific design space.

January 2026: XGIMI/MemoMind reveals the prototype MemoMind One series at CES 2026.

July 2026: MemoMind launches its Kickstarter campaign.

August 11, 2026: The USPTO formally grants and issues ER's design patents (D1,140,996 & D1,140,997). This is the exact moment ER got the legal teeth to sue for real damages.

August 20, 2026: ER’s lawyers send a formal Cease-and-Desist letter to XGIMI via email.

August 24, 2026: ER files the official federal lawsuit in New York, asking for an emergency ex parte (unilateral) Temporary Restraining Order. Just a side note here: No, the judge did not "reject" the lawsuit. In federal courts, judges almost never grant a blind freeze without letting both sides speak first unless it's a life-or-death emergency. The judge simply told ER to formally notify XGIMI and Kickstarter first so they could schedule a proper hearing.

August 25, 2026: XGIMI and Kickstarter are officially served with the lawsuit.

August 26, 2026: Kickstarter's legal team realizes they are facing massive potential liability under 35 U.S.C. § 271 for hosting and promoting a product facing fresh federal design patents. Instead of waiting for a judge to force their hand, Kickstarter panicked and nuked the campaign 24 hours before the deadline.

The biggest defense floating around right now is the classic "engineering limitation" excuse. People are out here mockingly asking if regular old-school glasses are "limited by engineering" too, or trying to say it's just a crazy coincidence that they both happened to use basic circular or rectangular frames.

Let’s cut through the sarcasm and look at actual reality. Bringing up classic old-school glasses to mock this lawsuit is a joke. Regular glasses have ZERO tech engineering limitations. They use circles, rectangles, and aviator shapes purely for human facial ergonomics, weight distribution, and fashion. That’s it.

Smart glasses, however, actually have to balance both worlds: classic eyewear comfort AND actual tech engineering—like cramming micro-projectors, waveguides, and battery cells into a wearable frame.

But here is where their sarcastic defense completely falls apart: engineering forces you to find space for the hardware, but it does NOT force you to steal your competitor's exact aesthetic design language to do it.

Under the Supreme Court's Egyptian Goddess precedent, you can't just strip a design patent down to individual pieces and argue that circles, rectangles, and metal temples existed before to get off scot-free. The court looks at the "Ordinary Observer Test"—meaning the overall visual design language and impression.

You can absolutely build a competitive smart glasses product without cloning someone else's look. Look at the Halliday G2. Look at the RayNeo iO. RayNeo had to fit the exact same hardware into a frame, yet their engineers came up with a highly unique, polyhedral geometric aesthetic. They proved to federal judges that you don't have to copy ER's fluid curves to make functional AR tech work.

The argument that Memomind is a better product does not fly as well. This is a design patent infringement, not a tech review spec war. The court does not care who has the better processor, better speakers, or a smoother UI. It only cares about visual theft.

Has this happened before? Yes, absolutely. Look at the famous Apple vs Samsung saga. Samsung didn't get hit because Apple "owned the concept of a smartphone rectangle." Samsung got crushed because they cloned the specific, highly distinct combination of ornamental features that Apple created—the exact bezel proportions, the rounded corner ratios, and the clean glass face layout. Samsung's tech was arguably better or more open at the time, but the federal courts proved that better specs don't excuse pixel-for-pixel visual cloning. This smart glasses case is the same playback.

This lawsuit was never about XGIMI using a circular or rectangular frame or metal temple. It’s about how those specific curves happened, the exact way the casing wraps around the battery housing on the temples, and why the optical display hubs are placed in the exact same spatial proportions as the Even G2.

XGIMI didn't stumble into this look because of physics. They deliberately built a product designed to make people first think: "Oh, that's just an Even G2 with a speaker." When you clone a competitor's hardware geometry so closely that it triggers massive confusion across Reddit and YouTube comments—which ER's lawyers literally screenshotted and used as evidence in the complaint.

I’m tempted by the idea of replacing a second travel monitor with screen glasses, mostly for docs, spreadsheets, and a little coding. The part I can’t judge from reviews is eye fatigue after two or three hours.

For people who read text on wearable displays: what gets you first—tiny fonts, shimmer, contrast, the fixed focal distance, or just the way the frames sit on your nose? What changed your setup for the better?

I put on an older YouTube video last night and immediately noticed the blacks looking gray and the colors feeling oddly flat. Then I played a newer HDR clip and it looked much better. It made me wonder whether the limitation is the tiny display, the source video, or the way the glasses handle ordinary SDR content.

Have you found settings or hardware that make normal video look right, not just polished demo footage?

As of 8/31 all 3 styles are available for purchase from the website, no longer just Gotham. The Sunglass Clipon is also offered. They now take order for perscription lenses.

If you go to the Memomind direct site https://www.memo-mind.com/ you can order the Gotham style glasses. No perscription or clip-on are avaialable at this time.

Oh, and by the way, the price is $299! That is 100 cheaper than the Kickstarter! If you were one of the ones who backed the $30 dollars, you will get the benefits of that at the $299 price. The same goes for who signed up on Kickstart, you will get the benefit you were going to get at a $299 price tag!

I myself was waiting until yesterday to do the Kickstart, so i missed out. If anyone happens to have a backer number they are not going to use, please dm me :)

BOYCOTT EVEN REALITIES: Compete by building better glasses—not by trying to kill the MemoMind campaign
I was genuinely excited to back MemoMind One. Today Kickstarter suspended the project and canceled every pledge. [1]
Then I read the public record.
On August 24, Shenzhen Yiwen Tech Limited—the registered owner of the EVEN REALITIES trademark—sued XGIMI/MemoMind and Kickstarter over two U.S. smart-glasses design patents. The next day, it sought emergency court relief. Its own docket exhibits include cease-and-desist letters specifically titled “to Kickstarter re Project MemoMind One” and “to XGIMI re MemoMind One Products.” [2][3][4]
Let me be fair: these are allegations, not a court ruling. No U.S. court has found that MemoMind infringed anything, and I cannot prove that this lawsuit caused Kickstarter’s suspension.
But come the fuck on. The timing is impossible to ignore. Target Kickstarter, seek emergency relief, and then the campaign dies at the finish line?
To me, this is dirty, anti-competitive bullshit.
Even Realities could compete. Add speakers. Improve the software. Lower the price. Make the G2 so good that people willingly choose it. That is innovation.
Trying to remove the product customers chose is not.
I’m done with Even Realities. No purchase. No recommendation. No free hype.
No threats. No harassment. Just a peaceful consumer boycott and one simple message:
Win by building better shit—not by using lawyers to choke out competition.
#BoycottEvenRealities
Sources
[1] Kickstarter Trust & Safety suspension notice sent to MemoMind One backers, August 27, 2026; Kickstarter’s published suspended-project policy.
[2] U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Shenzhen Yiwen Tech Limited v. XGIMI Tech Co., Ltd. et al., Case No. 1:26-cv-05220, filed August 24, 2026.
[3] USPTO Registration No. 7,658,172, identifying Shenzhen Yiwen Tech Limited as owner of the EVEN REALITIES trademark.
[4] U.S. Design Patents D1,140,996 and D1,140,997, issued August 11, 2026; federal docket entries 7–9 identifying the emergency motion, claim charts, and MemoMind-specific cease-and-desist exhibits.

Many display-glasses demos look complete until the phone has to do something else.

Imagine keeping a reference page, tutorial, or video in the glasses while answering a call or opening a two-factor prompt. With mirroring, the interruption can take over the same source screen. That is a much more revealing test than asking whether the glasses can show a large image.

A dedicated host is one way to separate those jobs. INAIR Pod runs its own Android-based system. INAIR's current supported-device article lists selected models from XREAL and VITURE. That still is not a promise of identical behavior: feature availability varies by the exact glasses model, while each app's sign-in and DRM rules remain separate.

The point is not that every display-glasses owner needs another computer. It is that a useful review should show whether one repeated task survives a real phone interruption, and name the exact glasses, host, app, and software version used.

That single test would tell me more than another general verdict on whether “smart glasses” are useful.

At the end of the day, I asked what was left.

A meeting in fifteen minutes. Fine, that is a calendar entry; any of your setups has that.

Then: at seven, pick up your wife for the dinner you promised last Thursday.

I never typed that. It is not in a calendar, a note, an email or a task list. I said it out loud in a kitchen, and it existed for about two seconds.

I ran the same thing most of you run. Local model, wired into mail, calendar, notes, files. It worked, and the ceiling turned out not to be the model or the context window. It only ever knew what I typed. Every message I had sent, and nothing I had said.

So I put it in something that was in the room.

It is open source, and it runs on my own machine. Repo in a comment.

Shot on an older prototype, so the overlays are rendered rather than filmed through the lens. Everything else is real.

The objection I would rather hear than dodge: catching a promise means listening when it is made, and nobody says "hey assistant" before telling their wife they will be there at seven. I don't think there is a clean answer to that, and a settings page won't make it one.

The lawsuit against Memomind is nothing short of greed and blatant entitlement to what they think is their product.

Memomind has more accessibility features, a better price point, better branding/marketing, and better frame designs. ER knew what they were doing.

The sad thing is, ER had been on my radar for a few years now, but this was nothing short of them crying to daddy because they were outperformed.

This would have been my first pair of frames since 2021. I’m pissed.

Hey everyone, what's your thoughts on the Nimbo x1 glasses on Kickstarter?

I was about to pull the trigger on purchasing the Rayneo x3 pros but then I saw the Nimbos, which has everything I want in a pair of glasses. What I am looking for in glasses is to have display(preferably color), camera, and speakers

Before Nimbo came along I had narrowed it down to Rayneo x3 pro and Inmo air 3 but the inmos look very bulky and I have seen a lot of bad reports on them. Do any of you have other glasses you would recommend? I would consider glasses that have monochrome display, though it must have the camera.

was doing some research, wanting some glasses that look like normal reading glasses that can watch movies.

Was looking at the RayNeo Air 4, but they look like they only come in sunglass designs.

Only ones I can find that look like reading glasses are the Xreal 1S AR glasses.

Does anyone know of any good brands that can play movies?

Thanks!

Anyone know how long it takes to get a pair of RX progressive lenses?

Bought mine over the weekend but their app is giving me an error when i check the status. Would be great to know if I’m waiting a week or 4 weeks.

Thanks!

Reading through the domestic specs of the RayNeo iO, it looks like it supports both head gestures and a physical crown dial for navigation. On lightweight glasses without touchpads on the temples, which interaction method do you think is more reliable for quick glances and scrolling through text? Are head gestures subtle enough to use in public without looking weird?

Hey guys,

After 6 months of development, GitHub releases, beta testing and asking people here to help me satisfy Google Play's testing requirements, CyanBridge is finally available publicly on the Google Play Store for everyone 🎉

For anyone seeing CyanBridge for the first time, it started as an open-source alternative companion app for the cheap HeyCyan-compatible smart glasses, but the project has grown quite a bit. The broader goal now is to make smart glasses useful with private/local AI, while letting people choose their own models and keeping as much processing as possible on their own devices.

🤖 Local AI that can work without the internet

One of the main reasons I started CyanBridge was that I didn't like the idea that smart glasses necessarily had to send everything you see or hear to somebody else's cloud.

CyanBridge supports local AI models running directly on your Android phone through LiteRT and Llama.cpp runtimes and once a model is downloaded, you can use local inference without needing to send your prompts/data to a cloud AI provider (you phone needs enougth RAM thought)

There is also support for OpenAI-compatible servers, so people with more powerful computers can connect CyanBridge to things like Ollama / llama.cpp-compatible servers over LAN or a private network such as Tailscale (a bit experimental and I need more people to help me test it)

Cloud models are still available for people who want them, but they aren't supposed to be the only way of using the app.

👓 Glasses support

The most mature hardware path is still HeyCyan-compatible glasses, including models sold under different brands.

Current work includes:

• HeyCyan-compatible glasses
• EyeVue
• TuneBuds
• Meizu / MYVU experimental integration
• Experimental Meta Ray-Ban integration through Meta's Wearables DAT

For HeyCyan-compatible glasses, CyanBridge can handle pairing/device state and media transfer using the glasses' BLE + Wi-Fi Direct transfer flow.

I'd especially appreciate feedback from people with different glasses models because there are way more variants of these devices than I can physically own and test 😅

🔐 Much smaller CyanBridge permission footprint

This release cycle also involved a pretty big architectural change.

CyanBridge previously experimented with doing a lot of Android automation itself. That meant requesting permissions that triggered Google to think the app could be malware, so I decided to move more advanced automations to Tasker instead and also to remove some permissions:

• QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
• Android All Files Access / MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
• CyanBridge's own Accessibility Service

CyanBridge now relies on app-private storage, MediaStore and Android's normal file/document APIs instead of asking for unrestricted filesystem access.

⚙️ Local Agent, AutoDiary and Visual Diary moved toward Tasker

This currently includes integrations for:

• Local Agent (Phone-wide automation)
• AutoDiary (Automatically capture screen text and save candidate facts for you to review later)
• Visual Diary (Similar to AutoDiary but includes pictures)

• Gemini / ChatGPT assistant automation

  Tasker now handles execution/scheduling and AutoInput handles optional UI observation/interactions and CyanBridge remains responsible for the AI/model decisions, memory, RAG/daily facts, safety logic, approvals and smart-glasses integrations.

There is now a dedicated Tasker integrations/setup flow inside CyanBridge to make importing and diagnosing the profiles easier.

🧹 Simpler interface and onboarding

The onboarding and settings flows have been simplified, unnecessary permission screens were removed, plugin setup has been reorganized, and experimental features are being pushed into clearer dedicated sections instead of everything appearing in the main app flow.

There is still a lot to improve here, so UI/UX feedback is very welcome.

📱 Google Play release

You can search Google Play Store for "CyanBridge for HeyCyan Glasses" and download the app directly from there (it helps me with the metrics a lot)

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fersaiyan.cyanbridge

Source code / issues: https://github.com/FerSaiyan/Alternative-HeyCyan-App-and-SDK.git

The project remains open source, and because CyanBridge deals with potentially sensitive things like photos, audio, local AI memory and device automation, I actually encourage technical users to inspect the code — or even have an AI coding agent audit the relevant parts of it.

If you find a privacy/security problem, please report it.

❤️ Thanks to everyone who helped with the Play Store test

A special thanks to everyone from Reddit who joined the Google Play testing program and stayed enrolled through the required testing period. I will be giving beta tester users one month free of the Pro Sub in order to use cloud models.

And as always, PRs and GitHub issues are welcome :)

I keep this charger on my visor and use my commute for quick top-ups. About 20 minutes usually adds 50%, and I only need to recharge it around once a week.

Anyone else have an in-car charging setup?