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CES 2026 Signals Smart Glasses Turn Toward Wearable HUDs and Budget AI Options

The show highlighted a pivot to wearability, with firm pricing signaling near-term availability.

Overview

  • Even Realities’ Even G2 focuses on a discreet, camera-free heads-up display for translation, navigation and teleprompter use, is available at $599, and the company touts up to two days of battery life.
  • Xreal showed the 1S glasses now on sale and demoed the ROG Xreal R1 gaming AR glasses claiming a 240 Hz micro‑OLED display, with shipment slated for 2026.
  • TCL’s RayNeo Air 4 Pro targets a wide audience with a bright true-HDR floating display and a January 25 launch at a $299 price point.
  • Rokid’s new AI glasses add a built‑in camera, dual micro‑LED display, voice assistant access and live translation, with models starting at $299 and preorders open.
  • Niche plays broaden the field as Povec Optics preps electrochromic sports sunglasses for 2026, Lucyd pushes audio‑first frames from about $99, and XGIMI’s MemoMind readies $599 Memo One preorders.