A lot of smart glasses are flooding into 2026, and another company is joining the fray. Acer, the computer-maker, on Friday announced two models coming later in the year. Based on their descriptions, expect one to be like the Meta Ray-Ban glasses and the other more like what TCL, Xreal and Viture offer for plug-in display glasses.
Acer’s $500 AR Vision GR0 glasses promise “augmented reality,” but sound exactly like other display-enabled plug-in glasses on the market: more like headphones for your eyes. They have 1080p micro-OLED displays and built-in speakers, weigh 69 grams (2.4 ounces; about average for the landscape), but there’s no mention of other display customizations like Xreal and Viture offer. In comparison, there are other display glasses that cost just $300, made by TCL and, soon, Xreal.
Meanwhile, Acer’s $300 G10 AI Glasses have a camera, microphones and speakers like most other smart glasses on the market, and no displays. Acer promises an AI assistant “powered by Google Gemini,” which sounds like a custom AI that draws on a Gemini model like Rokid’s glasses have, as opposed to full Gemini access like Google’s upcoming glasses. Acer’s AspireSync companion app, which is what the glasses pair with, will work on Android and iOS. But the glasses look, in early photos, a lot clunkier than other competitors.
Acer’s entry into smart glasses is a reminder that the market’s getting flooded fast, but the real missing piece is still better software to allow phones to work better with them, and better connections with AI tools actually being used everywhere else. Google’s wave of glasses this fall should begin to address this, and Apple’s glasses rumored for next year could too.
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