On Thursday, iFlytek unveiled its new AI smart glasses at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macau under the theme Communication Without Boundaries, the World Before Your Eyes, showcasing the company’s latest push into AI-powered devices.
At the launch event, Lin Huijie, General Manager of iFlytek’s Wearable Devices Business Department, said the company hopes the product can answer a long-standing industry question: why do smart glasses truly matter?
Lin reviewed the development of smart glasses over the past decade. From early attempts focused on futuristic designs to later efforts aimed at transferring smartphone functions onto glasses, the category had struggled to achieve mainstream adoption, Lin noted.
Many products, he said, resembled smartphones worn on the head or limited-function accessories rather than devices with truly independent and high-frequency use cases.
With rapid breakthroughs in AI technologies, especially multimodal large models, iFlytek believes smart glasses have finally entered a new stage of opportunity. Compared with smartphones, glasses serve as a more natural human interface that can be worn for extended periods while continuously perceiving what users see, hear, and communicate. iFlytek positions its AI glasses as a super AI assistant before your eyes and even a second brain for users.
