Rokid is taking its lightweight AR smart glasses global. Called simply Rokid Glasses, the headset weighs around 49 grams and is pitched as the world’s lightest camera-equipped smart glasses. Aimed at both everyday users and professionals, it blends Micro-LED displays, an onboard camera, and AI-assisted features to help with communication, navigation, and productivity.
A standout is real-time translation. Rokid says the glasses can translate up to 89 languages, showing written translations on the displays and reading them aloud through the built-in speakers. Four microphones capture speech for live translation, and there’s support for offline translation in five languages via a proprietary LLM for when you’re off the grid. The system can also transcribe meetings and automatically generate summaries afterward.
The dual monochrome green Micro-LED displays use a diffractive optical waveguide and provide a 480 x 398 resolution per eye, 1500 nits of brightness, and a 23-degree field of view. Users can tweak brightness and text size to suit their environment. Beyond translation, the glasses can act as a teleprompter to keep speeches on track, take voice notes and reminders, and overlay AR navigation with turn-by-turn directions, speed, trip duration, and estimated arrival time.
A 12MP Sony IMX681 camera with an f/2.25 lens captures 3024 x 4032 photos with a wide 109-degree field of view. A dedicated capture button on the right temple makes it easy to shoot, and a long press switches between video and audio recording. To address privacy concerns, an indicator light turns on when recording is active. Audio is handled by two AAC speakers paired with AI noise reduction on the four-mic array.
Under the hood, Qualcomm’s AR1 chip tackles general computing and AI workloads, while an NXP RT600 handles voice recognition and other low-power tasks. The glasses include 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, Bluetooth 5.3, and Wi‑Fi 6, and they pair with a companion smartphone app for settings, updates, and managing captured media.
Rokid built the frame from a magnesium‑aluminum alloy with TR90 temples, rated IPX4 for water resistance, and designed them to support prescription lenses. Power comes from a 210mAh battery with fast charging that delivers up to 80% in about 20 minutes. An optional 3,000mAh charging case can top off the glasses up to 10 times. Rokid quotes up to 10 hours of mixed use, though real-world life will vary depending on how often you record or keep the displays active.
The Rokid Glasses are available now via crowdfunding at $499, with a planned retail price of $599. At the time of writing, the campaign has already exceeded its funding goal by a large margin, pulling in roughly $686,000 against a $20,000 target with more than a month remaining. Unlike camera-only wearables, Rokid’s approach includes integrated Micro-LED displays, which could make these glasses appealing to travelers, presenters, and anyone who relies on hands-free translation, navigation, and note-taking.
