Huawei already sells a couple of generations of smart glasses, but the Chinese company could have something new on the way. A report out of China (via Weibo) suggests that the company’s newest eyewear (or Eyewear, if you’re big on branding) will have more advanced features.
This tracks, since there’s little point in walking back your hardware, no matter who you are. The new glasses will reportedly feature AI, because of course they will, and should be capable of simultaneous translations.
Huawei wearing these?
There are no visuals of the apparent next-generation smart glasses yet. Instead, we’re taking the word of Digital Chat Station, a Chinese leaker with a fairly decent track record. According to… whoever that is, the new glasses will run Huawei’s HarmonyOS, offer the aforementioned translation functions, and will also snap photos and record audio.
They’ll also “feature new functionalities,” but there’s no indication what these might be. The various available colours have been outlined, suggesting that there’s hardware lurking around somewhere. The smart glasses will launch in silver, grey, and black — descriptively renamed so the company doesn’t have to use boring old colours.
There’s even a vague timeline — the new AI hardware will supposedly launch in the first half of this year. Now if we could just lay hands on Huawei’s Eyewear 2 glasses for comparison…
