Rokid’s new Harbour City shop lets visitors demo and buy its display glasses without a salesperson. The first 500 buyers get a Joy Pack Rokid values at HK$4,688, the same as the glasses’ list price, but hours, staffing and results are unstated.
EssilorLuxottica and Meta put Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses on sale in Thailand from October 20, 2026, with Thai-language Meta AI and suggested prices from 16,290 baht.
Himax says its WiseEye HX6538 runs an always-on visual sensing system in Alibaba’s Qwen Glasses N1 series at 5 milliwatts, waking the main processor only on people or events. The October 14 release skips which models, how many chips and what it means for revenue.
Rogbid’s new VisionMax camera glasses cost $139.99 and a camera-free VisionShift Pro costs $69.99, but the listings omit weight, storage and recording battery life.
A Wednesday leak says Nothing is preparing camera-free audio glasses and a separate camera model with ChatGPT and translation. Bloomberg earlier pointed to a first-half 2027 camera launch.
Meta’s camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses are on sale today from $349: 43 grams, up to 12 hours claimed, Clubmaster and Burbank, with day-one reviews split on value.
Unofficial OpenRayneo v0.2.0 puts RayNeo iO’s two mics on macOS as separate Core Audio devices, with no phone relay—and the README keeps the caveats.
Collov Labs put its NewEyes visual AI agent into three pre-order devices on October 12: $199 Sight glasses, a $149 Halo camera earphone, and a $99 Clip pin. Sight’s spec sheet names no camera, Clip’s specs are pending, and no page gives the ship date Collov’s own policy promises.
Innovative Eyewear launched Lucyd Aero at $149 MSRP on Lucyd.co: 1–1.2 oz frames, invisible touchpads, camera-free and not always listening, with multi-AI app features.
Jio demonstrated JioFrames paying a merchant over UPI with a spoken “Yes” on IMC 2026’s opening day, without naming the authentication method, transaction limits, price or launch date.