Xiaomi AI Glasses are the Beijing-based company’s first smart glasses to include a camera. Equipped with a 12MP Sony IMX681 point-of-view camera that captures 2K video at 30 fps, the new glasses also support real-time live-streaming and first-person video calls. Notable features include a 263mAh battery that Xiaomi says delivers 8.6 hours of mixed use and an electrochromic shaded lenses option that allows the wearer to control the tint. The clear-lens model starts at $280, while those with grayscale electrochromic shaded lenses start at $380. Colored electrochromic lens models begin at $420.

The built-in Xiaomi AI system supports multimodal capabilities, including object recognition, text translation and features such as calorie counting, automatic transcription, smart summaries and live translation across 10 languages (among them: English, Japanese, German and Spanish).

Powered by a dual-chip system, Xiaomi AI Glasses feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 processor for high-performance tasks and a low-power chip that runs Xiaomi’s in-house Vela OS.

“One of the most interesting native features though is the ability to simply look at an Alipay QR code,” ubiquitous across China, “and pay for goods and services with a vocal prompt,” Road to VR writes.

TechRadar reports the new Xiaomi smart glasses are “awfully similar to Meta’s specs,” which also start at about $300, but notes the electrochromic lens shading is a huge plus. The Meta smart glasses accommodate transition lenses, which change shade based on weather conditions but don’t offer manual control, like the Xiaomi AI Glasses, which can be brightened or darkened by sliding a finger along the arm.

PetaPixel points out the 8.6 hours of mixed use battery life “is more than double the runtime of Meta’s smart glasses,” noting that the battery can be fully recharged in 45 minutes and allows for USB-C charging so you can wear them while powering up (unlike Meta’s, which only re-charge in their case).

Road to VR adds the 8.6 hours “can include things like 15 one-minute video recordings, 50 photo shots, 90 minutes of Bluetooth calls, or 20 minutes of Xiaomi Ai voice conversations” and that the device can last up to “21 hours in standby mode, 7 hours of music listening, and 45 minutes of continuous video capture.”

Dual speakers and a five-microphone array with bone conduction and noise suppression are also part of the package. Weighing in at 1.4 ounces, the frames come in either black, brown or green.

The Xiaomi AI Glasses are the company’s first mass-produced smart glasses to include cameras, reports Road to VR, which notes that while they were launched this month in China, “global availability is still in question at this time.”

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