Rokid smart glasses are amazingly able

Meta put the Smartglasses glasses industry on alert when it was announced Last week. Although they may display one of the most advanced visual engines on a device, after testing one of its competitors – Rokid glasses – I am convinced that there is still a great room for competition.

At $ 549, Rokid glasses are more affordable than Meta Ray-Ban screens, which are scheduled to be launched at $ 800. However, it should be noted that this difference will not continue forever, as follows The proposed retail price will increase significantly to about $ 740. Also, while Kickstarter campaigns are not always the most powerful reliability indicator, Rokid has already existed for some time with devices dating back to 2018.

But more importantly, Rukid glasses have some prominent design differences. Instead of one full -colored screen for your right eye, it features a dual -microscopic wave delivery that provides a real microscopic vision, which helps reduce eye stress. The downside is that Rokid glasses only support one color – green – although this is a kind of fun if you are in the classic Hacker. Text and symbols are more than sharp enough to make the user interface reading minimal Cinch glasses. And with up to 1500 groups of brightness, it is easy to see the display even out of the bright light. In the future, though, Rokid will need to upgrade to full color components to compete better with competitors such as Meta Ray-Ban.

Rokid glasses are well registered when it comes to the general style and the ability to wear it. The Meta Ray-Ban screens look as if someone stole the tires Then he made them three times thick, while Rokid glasses actually look more like participants than Ray-Ban creation. Touch panels are hidden in each arm, and even get real nose platforms for additional comfort. In addition, which weighs only 49 grams, Rokid claims that its creation is the lightest “AI and AR glasses”.

The only main indicators that this is not a model set of glasses is the small camera near your left temple and a faded scheme for the place where the wave guide displays headscarf on the lenses. There are also small compact loudspeakers that play sound from videos, music or answers from Rokid’s Ai Helper which are good as you can expect from a small tool. But perhaps it will not be a surprise when I say they may be loudly or provide a better voice.

Meanwhile, when it comes to recharge, there is a simple magnetic pin conductor at the end of the right arm that can connect to any USB-C cable using a guaranteed transformer. Unfortunately, if you want a charging status as you get it with many competitors, you will have to spend another $ 100. The battery life was surprisingly solid in my experience. You can get up to six hours of continuous music through Bluetooth, although if you use more advanced features (especially those that depend on artificial intelligence), you will need juice sooner.

As for jobs, the independent approach of the company to generate content is the greatest strength and weakness of it. This is because while Meta Smartglasses comes with a tie on Facebook and Instagram, which makes the live broadcast what you see as a breeze, Rokid does not offer this option. Instead, you should use a 12 -megapixel camera on the plane and five microphones to take pictures and videos before downloading them manually on your phone and then share it to your favorite primary system. This results in some additional steps between capturing and publishing (there is no option for direct broadcast), but at least you get freedom of choice.

The image quality is also acceptable. It will not be impressed by the opposite, dynamic extent and dark environments can be a little challenge. But as a tool to record the world around you, these glasses are a decent way to enjoy your homes. Fortunately, the content capture can not be simpler, just press the actual button on the right arm to get an image or click on the video. Or if you prefer it, you can use voice orders like “Hi Rokid, record a video.”

Regardless of taking pictures and videos, Rokid glasses can also get your phone’s pair of notification service and recording sound notes and even offering spinning trends using AI, although I couldn’t get this last feature. There is also a TelePROMPTER mode that allows you to download text programs to glasses and pass a text to the bottom automatically while speaking.

However, the largest clouds (or deterrent, depending on your opinion of machine learning) is the integration of artificial intelligence, which uses the device’s Qualcomm Ar1 slice and a Chatgpt model on board to provide actual time translation and audio copies. Just like what you get when using large LLMS on the phone or laptop, even when AI can understand most of what is happening, there are still times when some lines or phrases are not converted fluently.

There is also an option to ask glasses to create a text description of what their cameras see, though, again, Amnesty International is sometimes struggling. When I carried my phone in front of the lens, I properly identified the type of device it was, but then it was confused by the barcode on a box in the background and I thought I was trying to include the SIM card.

Even looking at the weaknesses of the current artificial intelligence models, Rokid glasses are a welcome surprise in an increasing sea of ​​smart glasses. It is lighter and elegant than anything you have tried so far while covering all the most important functions: playing music, skating and taking pictures and videos from the first person. Other features such as live translation and living illustrations are a bonus. When they work, which is mostly the time, it really seems to be an attractive glimpse of what is preparing to be the big age of the wearable computing.

It is too early to choose the winner or even recommend it as a must for lovers of the brink. But to see smaller names such as Rokid, it reaches convincing alternatives to the latest Meta that makes these smart glasses worth pay attention to.

Rokid glasses are available for pre -order now With the assigned delivery operations for some time in November.