Looktech AI Glasses are AI-powered smart glasses with a “privacy-focused design” and several lens options. They are similar to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses but support GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini instead of Meta AI. Like Meta’s smart glasses, the Looktech AI Glasses incorporate headphones, a camera, and an AI model for a hands-free experience and personalized AI assistance.
According to Looktech, the smart glasses can track calories, find recipes, set reminders, and perform image searches. The in-built 13MP camera can be used to capture high-res images and videos and the open-ear dual speakers provide “rich, spatialized immersive audio while keeping you aware of your surroundings.”
Looktech has given some hardware specifications for the product but the list is a bit sparse. We have covered the much cheaper but underpowered LILYGO T-Glass. Although there are no promises of a physical AI agent, the Looktech glasses are similar to the M5Stack’s Module LLM and SenseCAP Watcher.
Looktech AI Glasses specifications:
- SoC – Not specified
- Memory – 32GB flash storage (Good for 500+ photos, 100+ 30s videos)
- Wireless connectivity – WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4
- Camera – 13-megapixel camera
- Super anti-shake, 2K video, horizontal orientation
- Default video length: 15s, 30s, 60s
- Audio
- Noise-canceling microphones
- Voice commands
- Open-ear speakers with spatialized immersive audio, sound leak-proof design
- Buttons – Digital Crown, AI Button, Capture Button
- Power
- Charging: Magnetic charging cable
- Battery life: 14 hours
- Sizes – Medium and Large models
- Weight – 37 grams (without lenses)
- Material – TR-90 thermoplastic frame with titanium alloy hinge
- Water resistance – IPX4
- Compatible Operating Systems – iOS 15+, Android 10+
The Looktech smartphone app connects to a supported smartphone model and features certain mini-apps for running specialized use cases. Looktech claims that data is anonymized before being sent to AI services. Users control the data “stored, deleted, or exported with the Looktech smartphone app.”
The crowdfunding campaign has launched on Kickstarter with 2000 backers and over $500,000 raised at the time of writing. The smart glasses are currently priced at $209 for early backers but will be sold for $349 MSRP once the offer ends. The product comes with a charging cable, cleaning cloth, manual, and carrying case. You can also add a charging case for $35 and a custom engraving for $11.
The Looktech AI Glasses are about the same price as the Meta Ray Ban glasses at MSRP, although they feature a slightly better camera and have a higher battery life (14 hours). Looktech also offers transition, polarized, and prescription options at “no extra cost”.
Tomisin is a writer specializing in hardware product reviews, comparisons, and explainers. He is very passionate about small form factor and single-board computers.
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While it’s not entirely impossible that there’s some on-device AI (“physical AI agent”), the sentence reading “data is anonymized before being sent to AI services” makes it clear it’s also using the cloud. I find it hard to believe that “prescription lenses” can be added at no extra cost. My own “dumb” glasses cost about $300 in Thailand most of that because of the lenses, and the price could have been much higher ($1,000+) if I had selected thinner lenses. My eyes are around -7.25/-6.50 dioptries plus some correction for astigmatism. If they provide cheaper lenses they could easily be… Read more »
When your lead promotion is that these things can track calories, find recipes and set reminders, the word gimmick comes to mind. Then we have the statements AI-powered and privacy-focused design, which I find contradictory because the last thing that AI is focussed on is privacy. I would have thought that such AI tech could have eliminated the need for prescription lenses, by incorporating the ability to dial in the required dioptres settings, as is the case with some other products. Not the functionality that I want from future vision tech, where I want to have a portable TV with… Read more »
Their claims are very suspicious once pitted against the specs. 32GB of storage + camera that can shoot videos + tons of other features that they claim, yet there is only a 170mAh battery? I find that hard to believe…