In the words of DJ Khaled, "and another one!"

Soooo... here we are again. Another pair of smart glasses. I know. I had basically written off paying attention to anything new in this space because lets be real, most of it has been disappointing. You get excited, you spend the money, and something about it just does not work the way it should. I returned the last pair I tried. Did not even think twice about it. But I kept seeing stuff about the Rokid Styles pop up and eventually I gave in and started actually looking into them. Rokid has been around since 2014, they are not some company that just decided glasses were a cool idea last month. They have been doing AR wearables long enough to have figured some things out, and three million dollars on Kickstarter suggests other people think so too. What pushed me to actually order them was the navigation. That is the thing nobody else is doing. You tell these glasses where you want to go and they give you turn by turn directions through the earpiece. Walking, biking, driving. They also do the AI stuff, look and tell, translation, calls, reminders. You already know what all that is so I am not going to go through the whole list. The one thing I will flag is that they can record audio and the companion app can transcribe it or summarize it. Useful for meetings, appointments, anything like that. How accessible the app actually is I cannot tell you yet. That is the first thing I am testing when they show up. Battery is around twelve hours according to what I have read. The case that comes in the box is not a charging case, you buy that separately, which yes is a little annoying but not the end of the world. The glasses are as of right now three hundred dollars. From what I've read, you also get to pick your AI, Google, ChatGPT and I think a few others. Rokid also has something on their website for blind and disabled users, a twenty dollar voucher with basic verification. Small thing but it means something that they put it there. My pair is on the way. I could not find a single review from a blind person yet which is a big part of why I am writing this. When they arrive I will tell you exactly how they perform. Cheers!