Huawei Launches AI Smart Glasses at 2,499 Yuan, Challenging Meta's Market Dominance
Weighing just 35.5 grams, the new eyewear features voice interaction, live streaming, video calls, calorie tracking and QR payments
L'essentiel
- Huawei has unveiled new AI-powered smart glasses priced at 2,499 yuan (US$367), weighing just 35.5 grams and featuring voice interaction, live streaming, first-person video calls, food calorie estimation and QR code payments.
- Powered by Huawei's self-developed chip, the glasses mark a renewed push in the company's smart eyewear line-up, which previously offered more basic functions like translation.
- Huawei joins a growing list of tech giants competing with Meta's dominant Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses, which hold 85% market share with 7.4 million units shipped in 2025.
Résumé généré par IA
Pourquoi c'est important
Huawei's smart eyewear previously offered more basic functions such as translation. The new launch represents a significant upgrade in capabilities, positioning the product as a competitor in the AI wearables market. Meta currently dominates with its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta partnerships.
Priced from 2,499 yuan (US$367), the new eyewear weighed just 35.5 grams and featured various AI functions ranging from voice interaction to payments, according to a launch event on Monday. Powered by Huawei's self-developed chip designed for eyewear, the glasses enable users to live stream and make video calls in first-person view. With multimodal AI capabilities, they could also estimate and track food calories, and allow payments by scanning a QR code, among other functions, according to He Gang, CEO of Huawei's consumer business. The release marks a renewed push in Huawei's smart eyewear product line-up, which previously offered more basic functions such as translation. Huawei joins a growing list of tech giants doubling down on AI glasses, challenging Meta's smart eyewear – Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta – as well as offerings by Chinese peers Alibaba, Xiaomi and Rokid. Meta dominated the AI smart glasses market with an 85 per cent share in 2025, shipping 7.4 million units, according to the latest data from Omdia last month. Its Oakley and Ray-Ban-branded glasses pushed its shipments up threefold in 2025, Omdia data showed.
Questions ouvertes
- What is the exact launch date?
- What are the full technical specifications?
- What is the expected shipping timeline?
- What is Huawei's target market share?
