{"id":1014674,"date":"2026-08-21T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014674\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:05:15","slug":"rayneos-new-smart-glasses-are-taking-the-cameraless-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014674\/","title":{"rendered":"RayNeo’s New Smart Glasses Are Taking the Cameraless Route"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most companies making smart glasses are chasing Meta and its lineup of Ray-Ban<\/a> and first-party smart glasses<\/a>\u2014but some are trying for a different path. RayNeo looks to be diverging from the camera-clad AI glasses pack with its newly announced RayNeo iO Smart Glasses.<\/p>\n

Unlike Meta\u2019s current lineup of smart glasses, there is no camera. Instead, the iO look closer to pairs made by Even Realities and Xgimi, the latter of which recently released its MemoMind One<\/a>. Like both of the aforementioned pairs, the iO have a monochrome display with a max brightness of 1,300 nits. That brightness is a bit higher than the Even G2<\/a> (1,200 nits), but dimmer than the MemoMind One (2,000 nits). While the iO do have microphones that enable the use of a voice assistant and features like transcription, there are no speakers, similar to the Even G2.<\/p>\n

The iO doesn\u2019t officially have a price, but they should soon since they\u2019re set to launch on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n

\"Io\u00a9 RayNeo <\/p>\n

The feature set looks similar to those of competitors, too, with captions, transcription, voice memos, notifications, and something called \u201cAmbient AI Life Log,\u201d which RayNeo says \u201coperates silently in an ultra-low-power processing tier to build long-term contextual memory of your habits and workflows for more tailored daily summaries and assistance.\u201d This sounds similar to Xgimi\u2019s \u201cMoments\u201d feature, which constantly records audio for daily summaries, but I\u2019m not entirely sure if they\u2019re the same. I\u2019ve reached out to RayNeo and will update this post with any further information. There\u2019s at least an LED indicator that lights up when you\u2019re recording audio.<\/p>\n

\"Io\u00a9 RayNeo <\/p>\n

One interesting addition to the iO is a \u201cSmart Crown Dial,\u201d which is a physical dial that you can both click and rotate to control the UI inside the glasses. I like the addition of physical controls. Even Realities uses a smart ring as an input method, as well as touch controls on the right arm, but the MemoMind One relies on head gestures and triggering features via a companion app. None of those input methods are ideal, in my experience, so maybe the inclusion of a physical button is just what the smart glasses doctor ordered. Similar to the MemoMind One and the Even G2, the iO are fairly lightweight, clocking in at 33g, though it\u2019s unclear whether that\u2019s with or without lenses.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the idea of camera-less smart glasses is catching on, and RayNeo is another company hopping on that bandwagon. For context, RayNeo does\u00a0sell camera glasses\u2014the RayNeo X3 Pro<\/a>, which are AR glasses, have one in the bridge\u2014so its choice not to include them here is not totally philosophical. Still, the company clearly wants to give people options, since not all of us are comfortable walking around with discreet cameras on our faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most companies making smart glasses are chasing Meta and its lineup of Ray-Ban and first-party smart glasses\u2014but some…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[171025,38650,158,67,132,68,20267],"class_list":["post-1014674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-rayneo","tag-smart-glasses","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wearables"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}