Huawei’s Good Glasses Crush Meta’s Ray-Bans in One Key Class

Huawei’s first pair of sensible glasses with a digicam are official, and as we suspected, they’re fairly much like the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. Features embody a 12-megapixel digicam for POV video and images, translation, and a voice assistant—sounds acquainted, proper? Even although it’s a lot of the identical stuff we’ve seen earlier than, there is one distinction that offers Huawei’s glasses an edge: the battery.

Huawei’s first camera-equipped sensible glasses apparently get 9 hours of battery life with steady music playback, which is considerably greater than the utmost quantity of battery life marketed by Meta for its Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 sensible glasses. Meta says its Gen 2 glasses get eight hours for common/intermittent use, however that determine drops to about 5 hours for enjoying music constantly. How precisely Huawei will get virtually twice the battery life and whether or not it holds up underneath real-life testing stays to be seen, however it’s spectacular on paper.

One determine that’s barely much less spectacular than you would possibly initially assume is the burden. According to Huawei, its sensible glasses weigh simply 35g, which is almost 20g lighter than the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses Gen 2 that clock in at 50 to 53g relying on the body dimension. That caught my consideration instantly, however because it seems, that’s the burden with out factoring within the lenses, which… is type of b*llshit. Call me skeptical, however I one way or the other doubt persons are going to be strolling round with lensless sensible glasses.

With the lenses factored in, the lightest mannequin of Huawei’s AI glasses weigh 47g, which remains to be lighter than Meta’s Ray-Bans, however not by a lot. It’s laborious to say the place the burden discount comes from precisely, however Huawei is utilizing titanium in its sensible glasses, in order that may very well be an element. There’s one type with a titanium rim across the lenses (the lightest one), and Huawei says it’s additionally utilizing a titanium hinge, which is supposed to make them extra steady than rivals.

Either method, Huawei’s first camera-equipped sensible glasses will likely be akin to the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses when it comes to price, with an MSRP of two,499 yuan (about $367). Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses begin at about $379.