On Thursday, iFlytek unveiled its new AI smart glasses at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macau under the theme Communication Without Boundaries, the World Before Your Eyes, showcasing the company’s latest push into AI-powered devices.
At the launch event, Lin Huijie, General Manager of iFlytek’s Wearable Devices Business Department, said the company hopes the product can answer a long-standing industry question: why do smart glasses truly matter?
Lin reviewed the development of smart glasses over the past decade. From early attempts focused on futuristic designs to later efforts aimed at transferring smartphone functions onto glasses, the category had struggled to achieve mainstream adoption, Lin noted.
Many products, he said, resembled smartphones worn on the head or limited-function accessories rather than devices with truly independent and high-frequency use cases.
With rapid breakthroughs in AI technologies, especially multimodal large models, iFlytek believes smart glasses have finally entered a new stage of opportunity. Compared with smartphones, glasses serve as a more natural human interface that can be worn for extended periods while continuously perceiving what users see, hear, and communicate. iFlytek positions its AI glasses as a super AI assistant before your eyes and even a second brain for users.
The newly launched iFlytek AI glasses focus on four major areas: translation, interaction, office productivity, and wearing comfort. The product supports real-time translation across 122 languages, accents, and dialects, covering face-to-face translation, phone-call translation, online meeting interpretation, and AR visual translation. It can also recognize and translate text from menus, road signs, and presentation slides in real time.
The launch event also highlighted iFlytek’s self-developed lip-motion recognition multimodal noise reduction system. By combining a 5+1 microphone array, cameras, and bone-conduction technology, the AI glasses can identify a target speaker based on the user’s line of sight and the speaker’s lip movements, enabling a “hear who you look at” experience.
The feature is designed for complex public environments such as exhibitions, high-speed rail stations, and airports. It tackles the longstanding challenge of speech recognition in multi-speaker scenarios.
Beyond translation, iFlytek also demonstrated the AI glasses’ applications in business and office scenarios. The product comes with an AI agent called GlassClaw, which supports meeting transcription, information organization, email sending, and complex workflow execution.
During the demonstration, Lin showed how users could issue voice commands to let the AI automatically generate partnership proposals, organize travel plans, and send emails without relying on a smartphone or computer.
The glasses also feature an intelligent teleprompter that automatically scrolls content based on speaking pace, helping users deliver speeches, interviews, and presentations more naturally.
The new iFlytek AI glasses feature an aerospace-grade magnesium-aluminum alloy frame, a resin waveguide display solution, and a customized micro-optical module, reducing the total weight to around 40 grams — roughly 20% lighter than comparable products.
The company said the device has passed a 1.7-meter drop test and supports up to eight hours of battery life with multiple charging options. The team also carried out extensive ergonomic adjustments tailored to Asian facial structures to improve long-term wearing comfort.
Alongside the launch event, iFlytek also held an AI glasses ecosystem partner forum together with Sunny Optical, Wanxin Optical, and Conant Optics, where industry players discussed key standards including weight, comfort, and intelligence.
The iFlytek AI glasses are priced at 4,299 yuan ($635) and will go on presale starting June 15. As AI technologies continue to evolve, iFlytek aims to transform smart glasses from tech gadgets into high-frequency productivity tools and establish them as a key entry point for the next generation of AI-powered devices.
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