Smart Glasses With Display in 2026: 7 Models Compared, Including Which Ones Run Other Apps

If you're shopping for smart glasses with display, you're choosing from a small group. Counterpoint Research counted 96% of smart glasses shipped in the first half of 2026 as display-free, most of them Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta. The pairs that do show text in the lens differ in color, price and prescription support, and in one thing most reviews skip.

That thing is: can apps from other companies put text in the lens? Some glasses only run the maker's own features. Others have an app store, a developer kit, a browser or at least forward your phone notifications. If you want a smart glasses app the maker doesn't build, this decides whether you can have it.

Here are the seven display models on sale in November 2026. Prices are US list prices without prescription lenses.

What smart glasses have a display? The short list

Meta Ray-Ban Display, $799: color, right lens, camera, speakers.

Even Realities G2, $599: green, both lenses, no camera, no speakers.

Rokid Glasses, $699: green, both lenses, camera, speakers.

Vuzix Z100, $499.99: green, right eye, no camera, no speakers.

RayNeo X3 Pro, $1,299: color, both lenses, camera, speakers, Android on the glasses.

INMO Air3, $1,099 list: color 1080p, both lenses, camera, Android with Google Play.

Brilliant Labs Halo, $399: small round color display, camera, bone-conduction speakers.

Makers often call these AI glasses with display: you read the assistant's answer instead of only hearing it.

Smart glasses with display: the 2026 models

Meta Ray-Ban Display

Display: full color, right lens only, 600x600 pixels, about 20 degrees field of view.

Camera: yes, 12 MP.

Speakers: yes, open-ear.

Price: $799, including the Meta Neural Band wristband you control it with. Sold in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Italy.

Prescription: -4.00 to +4.00 only.

Can other apps show text? Not for most people yet. Meta's own apps cover messages, calls, the camera, music, maps, captions and a teleprompter. Developers can build web apps and native integrations, but Meta hasn't opened public publishing, so you add a third-party web app yourself in Developer Mode and it shows as "unverified". Meta says notifications from your other phone apps are coming soon (Meta's Connect 2026 post).

The best color screen here, and the most closed to outside apps right now.

Even Realities G2

Display: green micro-LED in both lenses, 640x350 pixels.

Camera: none, by design.

Speakers: none. Microphones for voice features.

Price: $599. The optional R1 ring costs $249.

Prescription: -12.00 to +12.00, the widest range here.

Can other apps show text? Yes. Even Hub is an app store for plugins: web apps that run inside the Even app on your phone and draw text on the glasses. Every plugin is reviewed by hand, and there are no paid apps yet. The Even app also forwards phone notifications.

Even builds in Conversate, with live captions and short AI cues during a conversation (Even's Conversate page).

Rokid Glasses

Display: green micro-LED in both lenses.

Camera: yes, 12 MP.

Speakers: yes.

Price: $699 list on Rokid's global store (it launched at $599); in the US it's sold through B&H. It weighs 49 grams.

Prescription: magnetic prescription inserts, at extra cost.

Can other apps show text? Yes. Rokid's public CXR-L SDK lets a phone app open its own text view in the lens through the Hi Rokid app. You approve the app once, with no store review on Android. Hi Rokid also mirrors phone notifications.

A Rokid Glasses 2 went on sale in China on October 27, 2026; a global version isn't confirmed.

Vuzix Z100

Display: green, right eye only, 640x480 pixels.

Camera: none. Speakers: none, and no microphone.

Price: $499.99 (Vuzix launch release).

Prescription: inserts. Vuzix sells a prescription kit for $149.99.

Can other apps show text? Yes, it's one of the most open. The Ultralite SDK for Android and iOS is free, with no registration and no approval step. Vuzix Connect mirrors phone notifications too.

At 38 grams it's a pure display: light and simple, with nothing that records.

RayNeo X3 Pro

Display: full color micro-LED in both lenses, 640x480 pixels.

Camera: yes, a 12 MP Sony sensor.

Speakers: yes, open-ear.

Price: $1,299.

Prescription: prescription lenses at extra cost.

Can other apps show text? Partly. The glasses run their own Android system with a small app store. Other apps can be sideloaded in a developer mode, which reviewers call anywhere from easy to cumbersome. Notification forwarding works on Android and is limited on iPhone.

Impressive optics, but reviews keep coming back to the short battery life.

INMO Air3

Display: full color 1080p micro-OLED in both lenses, 36 degrees field of view.

Camera: yes, 16 MP.

Speakers: two, according to INMO's spec sheet.

Price: $1,099 list.

Prescription: we couldn't confirm an official option.

Can other apps show text? Yes, the most open pair here. It runs Android 14, and the international version includes Google Play, so regular Android apps and Chrome run on the glasses.

Two warnings: one long review measured 60 to 90 minutes of screen-on time, and in September 2026 about 1,643 US and 120 Canadian units were recalled because the left temple can overheat; the fix is firmware V3.16 (CPSC recall).

Brilliant Labs Halo

Display: a small round color micro-OLED.

Camera: yes.

Speakers: yes, bone conduction.

Price: $399, launched October 27, 2026.

Prescription: the display optic adjusts from +2 to -6 diopters; full prescription lenses come through a partner optician.

Can other apps show text? Yes. Halo is open source: any phone app can connect over Bluetooth and run small scripts on the glasses, with no store and no approval. One catch from the docs: the font covers only basic Latin letters, so accented characters don't show.

XREAL and VITURE: display glasses for video, not conversations

XREAL One Pro (about $599) and VITURE Pro 2 ($299) plug into a phone, laptop or console with a cable and act as a large external monitor, so any app shows on them. Great for movies on a plane, a poor fit face to face: the lenses are tinted and you're tethered.

Smart glasses apps: which glasses let other apps show text

Sorted from most to least open:

Apps run on the glasses: INMO Air3 (Google Play) and RayNeo X3 Pro (own store plus sideloading).

Developer kit for phone apps, no approval: Vuzix Z100, Rokid Glasses and Brilliant Labs Halo.

App store with review: Even Realities G2 (Even Hub).

Closed for now: Meta Ray-Ban Display, Developer Mode only until Meta opens publishing.

Notifications as a fallback: Even, Rokid, Vuzix and RayNeo mirror phone notifications, so any app that sends one gets a line of text in the lens.

Notifications vanish after a few seconds and you can't control the layout. An app with real access shows exactly the text it wants, when it wants.

Smart glasses with display and camera, or without a camera?

A camera lets you take photos, ask the assistant about what you see and translate signs. Meta Ray-Ban Display, Rokid, RayNeo X3 Pro, INMO Air3 and Halo have one.

Smart glasses without a camera are Even Realities G2 and Vuzix Z100. Fewer features, but nobody around you wonders whether they're being filmed, which matters in meetings and at work.

Smart glasses with prescription lenses: what to check

Strong prescription: Even Realities G2, -12.00 to +12.00.

Mild prescription: Meta Ray-Ban Display, -4.00 to +4.00 only.

Inserts: Rokid, Vuzix and RayNeo, sold separately.

Adjustable optic: Brilliant Labs Halo, +2 to -6 diopters.

Budget for it: prescription lenses or inserts typically add somewhere between $110 and $350, depending on the model and lens type.

How to choose the best smart glasses with display

Best color display and a camera, in a supported country: Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Strong prescription, or no camera wanted: Even Realities G2.

Camera and display at a mid price, open to other apps: Rokid Glasses.

Lightest and cheapest, open to developers: Vuzix Z100.

Full Android on your face: INMO Air3 or RayNeo X3 Pro, if short battery life is fine.

Open source and tinkering: Brilliant Labs Halo.

Movies and a big screen on the go: XREAL or VITURE.

Where Hinty Voice Assistant fits

Hinty Voice Assistant listens to a conversation and, 1-2 seconds after someone asks you a question, shows a short suggested answer, also from your own documents (CV, notes, PDFs). Today it runs in Google Meet, Zoom or Teams in Chrome, as a web app and in the phone app.

Smart glasses support is in testing:

Your phone listens. Glasses microphones focus on the wearer's voice, so the phone on the table does the listening.

The hint lands in the lens or in your ear. Glasses with a display show two short lines. Glasses with speakers, or any Bluetooth earbuds, read the hint into your ear.

Each pair gets its own path. Meta Ray-Ban Display as a Web App (in Meta's Developer Mode until Meta opens publishing; a native version is prepared), Rokid Glasses through Rokid's SDK in our Android app, Vuzix Z100 through the Ultralite SDK, Even Realities G2 as an Even Hub plugin (pending Even's review), RayNeo X3 Pro and INMO Air3 through a web page in the glasses' browser, and XREAL or VITURE as a second screen for your phone.

It's coming soon, with no dates yet. Testers get every version first, and testing is free. Hinty is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these glasses makers.

FAQ

What smart glasses have a display?

Meta Ray-Ban Display, Even Realities G2, Rokid Glasses, Vuzix Z100, RayNeo X3 Pro, INMO Air3 and Brilliant Labs Halo. XREAL and VITURE are tethered screens for video.

What are the best smart glasses with display in 2026?

Meta Ray-Ban Display for color and a camera, Even Realities G2 for strong prescriptions and no camera, INMO Air3 for the widest choice of apps.

Do Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a display?

No. Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta have cameras, speakers and microphones, but no screen. Meta's display model is Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Are there smart glasses with a display but no camera?

Yes: Even Realities G2 and Vuzix Z100.

Can I install apps on smart glasses with a display?

On INMO Air3 from Google Play, on RayNeo X3 Pro from its own store, on Even G2 from Even Hub. Rokid, Vuzix and Halo work with phone apps built on their developer kits. Meta Ray-Ban Display allows third-party web apps only in Developer Mode for now.

Can I get smart glasses with display and prescription lenses?

Yes. Even Realities G2 covers -12.00 to +12.00, Meta Ray-Ban Display -4.00 to +4.00, and Rokid, Vuzix and RayNeo use prescription inserts.

Related reading

Meta Ray-Ban Display apps: what's built in and how web apps work

Teleprompter glasses: how they work and which smart glasses have one

AI voice assistants in job interviews: what candidates need

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