Solos challenges Meta’s Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses

Solos’ camera-equipped smart glasses person arrived to supply immoderate much-needed title against Meta’s Ray-Bans. The AirGo Vision is available now starting astatine $299 — the aforesaid value arsenic the Ray-Ban Meta eyewear tech — and features integration pinch OpenAI’s GPT-4o AI exemplary to place and reply questions astir the people, objects, and matter seen by the camera.

That allows the AirGo Vision to do things for illustration construe matter into different languages, supply directions to adjacent locations aliases landmarks, and springiness the wearer much accusation astir what they’re looking at. Solos says the glasses tin besides beryllium integrated pinch different AI models for illustration Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, thing the institution antecedently teased when it announced the AirGo Vision successful June.

Like the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, the AirGo Vision camera tin seizure photos connected demand. A swappable framework strategy intends that you tin deterioration the glasses pinch aliases without the camera — the artillery and touch sensors utilized to power the instrumentality are housed successful the frame’s USB-C chargeable hinges, providing an audio-only action erstwhile paired pinch the standard, no-camera-included AirGo frames.

“One point we promised to present connected was allowing consumers to person power of their acquisition pinch AI and smart technology, peculiarly pinch privateness options successful mind,” Solos co-founder Kenneth Fan said successful the announcement. “That’s why we developed frames that tin easy beryllium changed to determine erstwhile and wherever a camera whitethorn beryllium due without sacrificing immoderate of the nosy features.”

Soros says the Vision comes “with the action to acquisition the framework only for $149 aliases bundle a camera framework pinch a regular framework for enhanced privacy, priced astatine $349.” It’s disposable successful 7 colors and 2 framework styles: Krypton 1, which sports a ample quadrate creation pinch salient chemoreceptor pads, and the slimmer Krypton 2.