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The AirGo Vision will boast additional AI smarts in the frames

Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses
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After attempting to do too much too soon with Google Glass back in 2014, smart glasses have scaled back their ambitions in recent years. 

Prioritizing aesthetics and subtlety, the more successful smart glasses — like the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses — are no longer computers on the face, but regular glasses with a speaker, a camera and some basic voice controls for capturing life’s unmissable moments.

This is just scratching the surface of possible functionality, with the company claiming that the camera could also track progress on activities like cooking and home improvement, providing the next steps along the way. While shopping, you could show your glasses a product, and ask whether there’s a better-priced option elsewhere — though if you’re wearing smart glasses worth hundreds of dollars when buying groceries, then you may not be the most frugal person around.

Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses

(Image credit: Solos)

One especially interesting feature is that the Sonos AirGo Vision maintain the swappable frame system as the company’s other glasses. That means you can swap in a set without a camera if you don’t need the functionality, or if you’re going somewhere that might refuse entry, such as a theater or the cinema. 

With a camera-free set of frames attached, you’ll still be able to use ChatGPT’s other functions — just nothing involving the disconnected cameras. And the camera says that the glasses can be integrated with Google Gemini and Athropic’s Claude AI models if you prefer them to Open AI’s ChatGPT.

AirGo Vision is expected later this year, with no pricing information available as of yet. Given a version without the cameras will go on sale for $249.99 next month, it’ll almost certainly be more than that, but with Meta’s Ray-Bans starting at $299, we’d expect the Solos’ alternative to be roughly in that ballpark.

Alan Martin
Alan Martin

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. He also handles all the Wordle coverage on Tom's Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game for the last several years in an effort to keep his streak forever intact.