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As you know full well, there are two kinds of smart glasses: AR glasses (a glorified external monitor in front of your face) and AI glasses (frames that you can ask questions about the world around you to). And I’ll be real, many of the Prime Day smart glasses deals are trash.
They’re either just e-waste, or they’re tricking you into looking like a cyberpunk dork. That’s why you can trust my patented pub test for AI glasses and an airplane test for AR glasses — public scenarios where I see whether I get laughed at or that double-take glance like “wtf is that guy wearing!?”
And out of the Prime Day mess, 7 smart glasses emerged as options I personally love over months of testing, which just so happen to be massively discounted too.
Prime Day smart glasses deals: Quick links
- RayNeo Air 3s: was $269 now $189 @ Amazon
- RayNeo Air 4 Pro: was $299 now $239 @ Amazon
- Rokid AI Glasses Style: was $399 now $249 @ Amazon
- Viture Luma Pro: was $499 now $379 @ Amazon
- Xreal One Pro: was $649 now $549 @ Xreal
- Rokid Glasses: was $699 now $619 @ Rokid
- Nuance Audio Square: was $1,200 now $699 @ Nuance
Prime Day AI glasses deals
Outside of seeing whether my mates laugh at me wearing them in the pub, I’ve put each of these AI glasses through ruthless tests to ensure that not only do their AI features work, but that they’re actually useful in the long term (and not just AI slop for the sake of it).
Rokid AI Glasses Style — the pick for most of you
You may have seen that Meta’s launched some new $299 smart glasses. That’s all good and all, but why even bother when a better pair that’s compatible with better AI assistants is $50 less?
The Rokid AI Glasses Style give you a lot of the similar features to the Metas — a decent 12MP camera, 3K video recording, speakers to listen to music/calls, etc. But the real killer blow here is it can be used with either Gemini or ChatGPT, which gives you faster answers than Meta AI and visual intelligence that breezes past what Zuck’s specs can do right now.
Rokid Glasses — the pick for enthusiasts
Just before I show you another company, there’s Rokid’s display smart glasses too. Basically, think of that similar AI-infused tech of the Styles, but with an added display UI that makes some of these features so much more helpful!
Instead of asking questions and getting an audio answer, you get heads-up information for you to read (much better than being told it), and no longer do you take a picture and pray you framed it correctly — there’s a framing display to get the angle just right.
And to get real-time translation you can read with a less-than 1 second latency rather than trying to listen to your glasses and the person at the same time is significant. These are great for traveling and look subtle on your face.
Nuance Audio — the pick for hearing problems
I gave a pair of Nuance Audio smart glasses to my Dad over Christmas, and the difference they made to his hearing problems has been significant. From the simplistic UI that helps him control the volume of the background noise to tracking/emphasizing voices talking to him is a huge win.
And even better? These are a fully FDA approved over-the-counter hearing aid. That means the top man doesn’t have to look like he’s tuning into Tokyo with his rather precarious-looking hearing aids — it just all fits into a nicely styled pair of glasses that he doesn’t feel insecure at all wearing out and about.
Prime Day AR glasses deals
I’ve personally tested all of these AR glasses over thousands of miles of travelling for my job. All of them provide a great picture quality at prices you should 100% snap up right now before they go back up — all while not drawing double takes or smirks on the plane.
RayNeo Air 4 Pro — the pick for most of you
I was floored after reviewing the RayNeo Air 4 Pro glasses. While the competition was chasing innovation, the world just wanted a pretty picture in front of their eyes for dirt cheap. That’s exactly what these offer with a 1080p HDR10 201-inch virtual display with 3D capability.
They wouldn't pass the AI glasses pub test, but pass the AR airplane test with a subtle design that is comfortable for hours on end, and at $299, you couldn’t go far wrong while everyone else was pushing $500. Now, you can get an additional $60 off.
Viture Luma Pro — the pick for gamers
So I take a lot of smart glasses with me on-the-road for testing, but when I’m not in tech reviewer mode, I find myself very often going back to the Luma Pros — incredible picture quality and unmatched picture customizability with those physical myopia adjustment dials.
That 1200p screen is razor sharp with Viture’s awesome color science, a 52-degree field of view, 1,000 nit brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate. Plus, that Wayfarer look with electrochromic lenses ensures you’re always fading subtly into the crowded airplane with nobody looking your way.
It may be economy class, but you’ve got the screen of a first class passenger.
Xreal One Pro — the pick for the pros
We’re getting into big price territory, so we better bring big glasses with it too. At $549, the Xreal One Pros are absolutely feature-packed and ready for enthusiasts to level-up their setup. It starts with a super wide 57-degree field of view, which does produce some edge fringing in those new prism optics, but not to the point they distract you.
Throw in impressive tracking that allows the display to either smoothly follow you or anchor in place to look away from, the X1 chip that powers all of this locally on hardware (no app required) and smaller glass prisms instead of the giant bird baths, and you’ve got a comfortable set of glasses that pass the plane test and give you your workspace wherever you are.
RayNeo Air 3s — the dirt cheap pick
“All of those features are great and all, but I don’t care,” I hear a lot of you say. “I just want something to plug into my Steam Deck and play on the plane with no silly tracking stuff.”
Well, dear reader, let me introduce you to the RayNeo Air 3s. Yes, they’re a bit old, and they don’t have all the fancy features of other glasses. Plus they do stick out a little more than other subtly designed options on this list, while also having a limited viewing angle.
But they do exactly as they say on the tin (ask your British mates about Ronseal for that reference), 1080p picture, 120Hz refresh rate, decent color, and low blue light.
For the core beginners and those who don’t care about spatial and just want a screen in front of their face, this is the cheap thrills pick for you.
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