If you want a pair of glasses with hands-free recording capabilities and artificial intelligence voice assistant, you don’t have many choices, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are undoubtedly the leader. But Solos’ smart glasses are currently audio-only, and the company says it will sell a camera-equipped version later this year that uses OpenAI’s new GPT-4o AI model to let the camera recognize objects and answer questions about what you’re seeing. .
The Solos AirGo Vision also includes the same interchangeable frame system as other Solos glasses, so you can swap out the camera – if you’re going somewhere where a camera isn’t socially acceptable, or if you just want to have a different look or use some visor cover instead. Additional frames range from $89 to $129.
The company says the Vision will also feature notification LEDs to alert you to incoming calls or emails, and it claims they can also integrate with Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI model. Like Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, they answer questions via audio—they have no display other than LEDs.
The AirGo Vision hasn’t announced a price or specific release date yet, but expect it to cost more than $249.99 — because that’s what a pair of Solos will cost No camera this July. Ray-Ban sunglasses still start at $299.
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