Xgimi has announced it’s getting into the AI smart glasses game this year, and isn’t shy about it. The company is launching three new glasses under the MemoMind family, the projector maker’s new AI hardware brand.
In a press release during CES 2026, Xgimi posits that many AI wearables “feel experimental or obtrusive,” and that its MemoMind glasses are “designed to blend seamlessly into daily life.” Following that thread, the company says it focused on smart glasses that are comfortable to wear all day, intuitive to use, and feature AI that “works quietly in the background” and only shows up when it’s needed. The AI system involves multiple LLMs in a “hybrid operating system” that will choose the proper model for a given task, be it translation, summarization, note-taking, or more.
Memo One is the premium pair, with speakers and displays for both eyes, and they’re legitimately comfortable, at least in the brief time I had to try them at CES. The speakers, which Xgimi reps told me are tuned by Harmon, sit in the ear tips and are loud, but sit behind your ear and in a loud room, I had a bit of a hard time hearing them. The interface is… remember the Virtual Boy? It’s like that—low-resolution and simplistic, only green instead of red. It can appear to be about a meter in front of you or five meters out, and I found that I had no issues focusing on it at any of these distances. It’s beamed onto the screen by teeny tiny projectors.
The interface itself is all cloud-AI based. In my demo session, the reps walked me through translation, which was quick and fairly accurate, as well as a “Conversate” mode where the glasses listen for questions asked around you and try to pop up answers for you. You know, for cheating at pub trivia night. Of all of those features, my favorite might have been a teleprompter mode where they show text that you feed them, line-by-line, automatically scrolling as you go. The glasses can run for about 16 hours on their own power and up to a week with Xgimi’s included charging glasses case.
Then there’s the Memo Air Display, which, at 28.9 grams, are lighter than the Memo One (Xgimi doesn’t say by how much) but only have one display. These are still in development and would work a lot like the Memo One, only you can’t listen to music through them. The company is also working on a Memo Air pair that instead sacrifices displays for speakers, making them an audio-first version of the experience. The company plans to take preorders “soon,” but only offered an approximate price of $599 for the MemoMind One—I guess we’ll just have to wait on pricing for the Air Display.
The company plans to take preorders “soon,” but only offered an approximate price of $599 for the MemoMind One—I guess we’ll just have to wait on pricing for the Air Display.
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