Glasses with cameras, AI and displays: Ray-Ban Meta, Meta Ray-Ban Display, Android XR glasses, Xreal, Viture and the race to replace your phone.
While Snap and Meta argue over $1,300 and $2,195 face computers, XREAL quietly shipped 62-gram glasses that turn any phone or Steam Deck into a 147-inch screen for $299. They are not augmented reality in the science-fiction sense. They are something better: a product.
On 20 October 2026 Snap named Robert Downey Jr. honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer for Specs, its $2,195 AR glasses. It is the most on-the-nose casting in tech history, and it might be the smartest thing Snap has done with Spectacles in a decade.
