Smart glasses makers are promising lightweight, stylish frames with limited features that should offer an alternative to bulkier mixed-reality headsets now on the market.

Wearable screens, heads-up displays, color-changing lenses, and automatic caption glasses stood out at the Consumer Electronics Show.

CES 2025 was the year of the smart glasses. AR / VR headsets were everywhere. Just when we thought we covered them all – check out our coverage so far on the XREAL One Pro and Chamelo – we'd come across yet another new pair of smart glasses.

EssilorLuxxoitca, the holding company behind eyewear brands like Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Foster Grant, is entering the over-the-counter hearing aid industry with Nuance Audio.

A new wearable startup claims it has created the world's first proactive AI smart glasses and that it can work with any lenses.

Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday's smart glasses, and you might not notice they're looking at smartphone notifications, live language

Heading into 2025, the next step for smart glasses was clear as day: while AI glasses like Meta's, the Solos AirGo3, and AirGo Vision would act as the tip of the spear, the addition of display tech would be the feature that truly pierces the hide of the mainstream.

Despite tensions in Sino-American relations, Chinese companies remain highly engaged in the global tech scene, with over 1,300 exhibitors from China at