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Different smart glasses offer different features, depending on who made them and on the hardware available. Typically, these frames come with an integrated camera, microphone, personal speakers, and a way to interact with an AI assistant. For Meta Ray-Bans, that assistant is Meta AI, while the new Intelligent Eyewear from Samsung and Google is linked in with Google's Gemini. While the basic hardware allows these glasses to be used as cameras or headphones, the extra capabilities are wholly dependent on the AI you have access to. Like smartwatches, they are essentially a way of interacting with

Samsung has timed its official first-look with Google I/O 2026, where it’s also expected Google will provide more information on its Android XR platform, and its own smartglasses. Samsung is promising more details will be released over the coming months, and we should expect them to hit stores in the fall, but only in selected (and as yet, unnamed) markets. Samsung’s intelligent eyewear will directly compete with the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses.