These Smart Glasses Are Already Kicking Meta Ray-Bans’ Ass

Meta clearly has more competition than ever in the world of smart glasses, and this field of competitors does not become thinner. The most recent company to join the Fray intelligent glasses is Chinese XiaomiWho has just revealed a pair of frames which, if I am totally honest here, puts Meta’s Ray -Ban glasses to shame – at least on paper.

The first thing I noticed about the AI ​​glasses of Xiaomi, which costs about the same price as Meta Ray-Ban glasses At $ 280, it is because he has done something that I have been wanting for a long time as the owner of Meta Ray-Ban glasses. According to XiaomiHis AI glasses can be used for mobile payments with a combination of the glasses and Alipay camera, the popular mobile payment system of Alibaba. From what I can collect from Xiaomi press materials, the glasses can scan a QR code, then use the embedded voice assistant as a confirmation that you really want to pay for an article. On the surface, it seems that you can end up for accidentally walking by paying things, but with a few insumes – activation and verification of the vision – I don’t think that should be a problem. However, I do not have all the details on the functioning of the functionality, so the fingers crossed that Xiaomi thought it – if that was the case, then it could be incredibly practical.

Then, this is something that I also thought several times while wearing Meta Ray -Ban glasses, especially when I want to wear them inside – electrochromic lenses. To put this sentence in terms of secular, this means the ability to move electrically, whether lenses are shaded or transparent. Of course, Ray-Ban intelligent glasses can be purchased with installed transition lenses, but being able to move between shaded and transparent manually is rather great, especially if you can adjust the weakened level according to your view or your preference.

And the advantages do not stop there. If this last piece is true – I have doubts that it is – then the intelligent glasses of Xiaomi frankly blow the Ray -Ban glasses from Meta out of the water. According to Xiaomi literature, AI glasses have an absurd 45 minutes of continuous video recording. It would be impressive, not only for a pair of smart glasses, but for a iPhone 16 pro Even, which tends to become damn hot when recording the video during prolonged durations. By the way, Meta’s Ray-Bans can record a maximum of three minutes of video in one session, which has recently been increased by the maximum original recording length by 90 seconds.

In addition to these three things, Xiaomi glasses correspond to the rays of meta rays in almost all ways and even push the limits in a few others. There is a 12 -megapixel camera, a vocal assistant on board and a table of five mic to use your voice assistant and take calls – all three of these things correspond to Punch Ray -Bans de Meta for Punch. In the battery department, Xiaomi glasses would however have dropped the ball forward. While Meta glasses are only evaluated for four hours of battery, Xiaomi says that her glasses can last 8.6 hours on a single load. Again, it is a kind of major claim, so I approach this specification with a certain skepticism, but if it is true, it makes Meta silly. Oh, Xiaomi also says that glasses are also capable of first -person video calls and live broadcasting. Of course. Why not?

I have doubts about the AI ​​glasses of Xiaomi, don’t get me wrong, but if they really do what the company says they do, they could easily (on paper, at least) be the best smart glasses. They don’t crack the code With an increased display On the objective or something like that, but they would have doubled the life of the battery, widen the continuous recording time by the glasses of 15x meta and include more wings such as the possibility of performing mobile payments or manually transit lenses in mode or out of the shade. Even if these things are total bullshit, I start to think that Meta should really improve the game here, because Xiaomi smart glasses are now the only ones I want.