Meta’s Ray-Bans are the most popular AI glasses available right now, but they’re also making a lot of people feel unsettled, what with a camera that could be taking pictures of anyone, anytime, anywhere. What disappoints me about them, besides Meta’s very confusing privacy policies, is how they entirely funnel you into using Meta AI.
You can’t set up Meta’s glasses with ChatGPT, Gemini or any other service. It makes Meta’s glasses feel less useful and less like a truly versatile AI wearable.
There are other options, though. I’ve been wearing a pair of $379 glasses (on sale lately for $279) made by Chinese hardware manufacturer Rokid that look just like Meta Ray-Bans, but they offer the option to connect to several different AI platforms. In the US, you can swap between ChatGPT and Gemini. Rokid also supports Deepseek and Qwen in other regions.
Smart glasses have been one of tech’s
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