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

Solos’ camera-equipped good glasses have arrived to supply some much-needed competitors in opposition to Meta’s Ray-Bans. The AirGo Imaginative and prescient is available now starting at $299 — the identical worth because the Ray-Ban Meta eyewear tech — and options integration with OpenAI’s GPT-4o AI mannequin to establish and reply questions in regards to the folks, objects, and textual content seen by the digicam.

That permits the AirGo Imaginative and prescient to do issues like translate textual content into completely different languages, present instructions to close by areas or landmarks, and provides the wearer extra details about what they’re . Solos says the glasses may also be built-in with different AI fashions like Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, one thing the corporate beforehand teased when it introduced the AirGo Imaginative and prescient in June.

Just like the Ray-Ban Meta Sensible Glasses, the AirGo Imaginative and prescient digicam can seize photographs on demand. A swappable body system means that you may put on the glasses with or with out the digicam — the battery and contact sensors used to regulate the system are housed within the body’s USB-C chargeable hinges, offering an audio-only choice when paired with the usual, no-camera-included AirGo frames.

“One factor we promised to ship on was permitting customers to have management of their expertise with AI and good expertise, significantly with privateness choices in thoughts,” Solos co-founder Kenneth Fan stated within the announcement. “That’s why we developed frames that may simply be modified to resolve when and the place a digicam could also be acceptable with out sacrificing any of the enjoyable options.”

Soros says the Imaginative and prescient comes “with the choice to buy the body just for $149 or bundle a digicam body with an everyday body for enhanced privateness, priced at $349.” It’s out there in seven colours and two body kinds: Krypton 1, which sports activities a big sq. design with outstanding nostril pads, and the slimmer Krypton 2.