RayNeo’s latest AR glasses shrink to smaller sizes

All smart glasses are trying to get smarter. In the ongoing quest to find ways to deal with our faces, companies are introducing more and more normal-looking ones glasses promising AI on board that can interact with our lives using built-in cameras. The meta has already charted a path to that future with current Meta Ray-Bans and future dreams Meta Orion Full AR Glasseswhile Google and Samsung have plans for AR glasses using Android XR. RayNeo, another AR glasses company, has a pair of compact AR glasses announced at this year’s show CES show in Las Vegas and coming this year who aspire to the same area.

The RayNeo X3 Pro is an update to a line of AR glasses I’ve tried beforebut this time they have become much smaller. The 3-ounce glasses look pretty normal for every day from the RayNeo photos, but they have built-in dual Micro LED displays that are projected onto the clear lenses via waveguides. RayNeo’s previous glasses had a VR chip to power its AR/AI features, the same chip that was on the Quest 2. This time the glasses use Qualcomm’s AR 1 Gen 1 chipset which is focused on shrinking the size of glasses and optimizing for AI. They still have dual cameras, room tracking and even hand tracking. The X3 Pro is coming later in 2025. at an as yet unknown price.

The previous RayNeo X2 glasses were bulky, had limited battery life, and were heavier (4.3 ounces compared to the X3 Pro’s 3 ounces). According to reviewersthey also had a very narrow field of view that limited the bright displays to a small floating window.

Will the X3 Pro be better and more reliable? Hopefully CNET will show them off soon, so we’ll know more. These glasses also don’t appear to be part of Google’s upcoming AR and AI-focused Android XR right now, although it would make sense to be at some point.

RayNeo’s other new glasses follow familiar shapes: the X3 Air are display glasses similar to what’s offered by Xreal and others. The RayNeo promises a 200,000:1 contrast ratio, a 201-inch equivalent virtual display and better audio, but they can’t seem to auto-dock displays like the new Xreal One glasses can – and there are no specifics about the field of view or the type of display. The V3, meanwhile, are camera-equipped glasses with audio, similar to the Meta’s Ray-Bans. All of these glasses look like they’ll be arriving in the second half of this year, but again, no pricing is available yet.

What strikes me though is how much smaller the X3 Pro glasses are. AR glasses are starting to appear that come close to the kind of thing the Meta promises, though the RayNeo’s field of view is admittedly much smaller… and its software services are still relatively unknown.