While AI continues to advance rapidly, permeating everything from healthcare and transportation to writing and social media, an AI device that is rising in popularity in the consumer market is AI-powered smart glasses. These wearable devices offer convenient access to AI assistants and blend the digital world with reality. 

Addressing issues regarding battery life, privacy, and user experience, today’s brands are innovating new ways to make AI-powered smart glasses long-lasting, secure, and comfortable. 

What Are AI-Powered Smart Glasses?

Glasses may offer you clearer vision or protect your eyes on a sunny day. Still, AI-powered smart glasses combine the perks of traditional eyewear with a digital assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence. This technology has sensors, cameras, and processing power built into the glasses’ frame, capturing some of life’s moments while they are happening and highlighting how significantly AI technology is shaping the functionality of what you wear. 

Typically, AI-powered smart glasses do more than overlay the outside world with the digital landscape. These devices are also integrated with virtual assistants (think Siri or Alexa) to recognize your voice and respond to your questions/commands. AI-powered smart glasses can also notify people and objects; some can even monitor your health.

How you interact with your devices makes the AI-powered smart glasses experience different from your daily interactions with other AI technologies: computers, smartphones, and video games. Your AI interactions often focus you on a screen, but with AI-powered smart glasses, you focus more on life—interacting in the real world in real-time. 

Consumer Concerns

AI-powered smart glasses do not come without consumer concerns. One crucial concern consumers have is the privacy/security of these wearable devices. With this technology able to capture life’s moments and store data, consumers raise concerns about the potential for privacy violations. 

However, privacy concerns are not just for consumers who purchase and use AI-powered smart glasses; those who are in the presence of someone wearing these glasses are concerned about their consent being violated or being under surveillance, particularly those who work for corporations or the government.

Another consumer concern is about these smart glasses’ battery life and performance. AI-powered smart glasses offer many benefits. With this technology able to record and capture life, running sensors and displays become helpful in many situations; however, these benefits also mean your smart glasses are constantly running, which can drain your device’s battery life quite quickly. 

Furthermore, because of this technology’s small size, the processing power may be more limited. The processor can also overheat, impacting the device’s performance and ability to meet your needs. 

Brands Rise to Address Consumer Concerns

Many brands are facing challenges presented by consumers who want better security, battery life, and performance. One company that balances AI performance with long-lasting battery life is SHARGE, an innovator in the power supply industry. 

Pushing the boundaries of what smart glasses can do, SHARGE’s Loomos AI Glasses introduce a 450mAh built-in battery and an optional 6500mAh neckband power bank for extended use. This pair of AI-powered smart glasses has unmatched longevity and immersive open-ear audio with 5.1 virtual sound. 

The company stated about their Loomos AI glasses: “The Neckbank powerbank is lightweight and won’t get tired even if you hang it around your neck for a long time. Also, a charging cable of the right length will keep the Loomos working continuously when working together with the Neckbank powerbank.”

The Future of Smart Glasses

With companies shaping the future of AI-powered smart glasses and wearables, addressing consumer demands for privacy, usability, battery efficiency, and even comfort, AI-powered smart glasses are likely to keep advancing. They are the newest trend in eyewear, offering users the ability to benefit from unique features, such as enhanced safety, improved communication, and improved accessibility, that can improve everyday life in a new way.