Chinese smart eyewear makers shine at CES with focus on challenging Meta


At the four-day annual trade show, which concluded on Friday, Chinese brands made up most of the roughly 60 smart eyewear exhibitors. Their products ranged from audio-first frames designed for all-day wear to augmented reality (AR) glasses that overlay digital information onto the real world.
Exhibitors included Rokid, which debuted its audio-centric, no-display product called the Rokid AI Glasses Style supported by a mix of US and Chinese large language models; Xreal, which unveiled new AR wearables such as the Xreal 1S and the video gaming-focused ROG Xreal R1; and RayNeo, which introduced its X3 Pro Project, featuring eSIM support that allowed the glasses to run without a smartphone link.
Also at CES were LLVision Technology, which showcased its Leion Hey2 translation-focused glasses; Even Realities, which featured its newly launched 36-gram Even G2 smart eyewear with a companion smart ring; and Alibaba Group Holding, which showed its Quark AI Glasses. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
Other exhibitors included Meizu, Sharge, INMO, projector maker Xgimi and earphone brand Shokz.
LLVision’s Leion Hey2 augmented reality translation smart glasses on display at the CES trade show. Photo: Wency Chen
LLVision’s Leion Hey2 augmented reality translation smart glasses on display at the CES trade show. Photo: Wency Chen
Chinese firms’ strong showing at CES underscored how large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI had made it possible to embed intelligence into a fast-developing range of consumer hardware and wearables. Some already considered smart glasses as potentially the next major personal computing platforms after smartphones.
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