CES 2025 is seeing a lot of interest in smart glasses, some of which are expected to compete with Meta’s Ray-Bans. AI watches for adults and kids were also on display.
Meta’s Ray-Ban spectacles are facing competition from smart glasses and wearable artificial intelligence (AI) devices at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
The possible revolution
The Halliday Glasses are the first artificial intelligence (AI) glasses featuring an AI agent and a display known as DigiWindow, which presents data in the user’s field of view without the need for a lens.
According to the business, the display, which is a 3.5-inch screen with the DigiWindow in the upper right corner of the frame, is still viewable in direct sunlight. You can still use the prescription glasses because nothing is projected onto the lens itself, making it impossible for anyone to tell if you are using the AI agent.
In a discussion, Halliday stated that the spectacles “can proactively answer complex questions, summarise key discussion points, and generate summarised meeting notes afterwards”.
According to the business, the product will be available by the end of the first quarter of 2025 and will cost between $399 (€390) and $499 (€490), which is higher than the $299 (€290) display-free spectacles from Meta Ray-Bans.
The Motwani Jadeja Foundation’s Ashish Verma told Euronews Next :”The difference between Meta and what we are trying to do is that if you are wearing it in a bedroom or in a private setting you let the developer have your data. So what we are trying to do is keep some of that privacy”.
The large battery and camera
A prototype pair of spectacles with a 16-megapixel camera and a 40-hour battery life was displayed by the Israeli startup Lumus.
This has a battery life that is three times longer than Meta’s, and it is significantly larger than the 12-megapixel camera on the Meta Ray-Bans, provided Lumus’s claims are accurate.
The business informed Euronews Next that it plans to debut on Kickstarter and will sell for $200 (about €190), which is less expensive than Meta.
Children’s AI watch
An AI watch might be the perfect present or accessory for parents whose kids have bright brains and a lot of questions.
Pinwheel unveiled their kid-friendly smartwatch, which retails for $160 (€155).
PinwheelGPT, the watch’s chatbot, can respond to inquiries in an age-appropriate way while implementing safety measures. Instead of responding to improper inquiries, it encourages kids to talk to an adult.
Additionally, a GPS monitoring gadget is included to let parents know where their kids are and to look up every contact the kids make up until the age of 14.
Watch Out Wearables has another AI watch on show at CES. The watch has a chatbot that can respond to a wide range of age-appropriate queries and is available in vibrant colors.
It is designed for kids between the ages of 6 and 13 and functions by telling them everything about an insect, for instance, when the youngster aims the watch at it.
Observe Wearables’ Suparna Deshpande told “It’s safe, it’s ethical and it doesn’t give out information, which is not meant to be for a kid, an age that is not appropriate”.