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Smart glasses grew up at CES 2026. Here is what we want in 2027

Smart glasses grew up at CES 2026. Not “almost there” grew up. Real products, real prices, a dozen of them, and a couple that people actually wanted to keep wearing after the demo. For a holographic magazine, that is the category we care about most. Here is where it stands and what we want to see in January.

What showed up last year

  • Even Realities G2. The quiet winner of the week. Thin frames with in-lens green text for teleprompting, translation, notifications and an AI assistant, and it pairs with a small R1 ring for input so you are not tapping your temple in public. It took a CES Innovation Award. This is the “glasses that look like glasses” lane.
  • Xreal. Two directions at once. The Xreal 1S is the sensible one: 1200p per eye, 52-degree field of view, 120 Hz, basically a private movie screen tethered to your phone or laptop. The ROG Xreal R1, built with ASUS, is the gaming one: 240 Hz and a virtual display the companies describe as 171 inches, slated for the second half of 2026.
  • RayNeo Air 4 Pro. The budget pick: 1080p micro-OLED, 120 Hz, HDR10, 76 grams, 299 dollars.
  • Solos AirGo V2. Camera glasses, Solos’ first with a 16 MP camera. Think Meta Ray-Ban without the Meta.
  • Lumus ZOE. Not a product, a waveguide. Lumus showed one with a field of view over 70 degrees. That number matters more than any single pair of glasses, because every true AR frame needs an optic like this, and 70 degrees is where a hologram stops looking like a postage stamp.

Two different products wearing the same name

Most of what gets called “smart glasses” is one of two things. Display glasses put a floating screen in front of you: movies, games, a second monitor. Assistant glasses put a camera and a microphone on your face and a little text in your eye: captions, directions, a photo without pulling your phone out. Both are good. Neither is AR yet. AR means a thing that stays locked to the table while you walk around it, and that is still a much harder optics and tracking problem than a floating screen.

That is the part we watch for. FUNN’s whole thing is a hologram that sits on a coaster on a real table and stays there. Today you see it through your phone. The day it works in a pair of normal-looking glasses with a wide enough field of view, a printed magazine becomes something else entirely.

What we want to see at CES 2027

  1. Field of view in a normal frame. Lumus-class waveguides inside something you would wear to lunch.
  2. A ring or band as the default input. The G2 and its ring felt right. Voice in a crowd does not.
  3. Battery numbers that survive a day. Every spec sheet quotes hours; show us the glasses at 4 pm.
  4. Open hooks for content. We want to put a FUNN scene in front of your eyes without building a separate app for every brand of glasses. The first platform that makes that easy wins a lot of small publishers.
  5. Prices under 400. RayNeo proved it is possible. The question is whether the good ones follow.

We will be trying every pair we can get on our face in Vegas and filming the view through the lens where the booth lets us. If you make glasses and want a holographic magazine to show up in them, you know where we are.

Sources (checked October 2026): Tom’s Guide: best smart glasses of CES 2026 · Interesting Engineering: top 7 smart glasses · Next Reality · The Gadgeteer

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