{"id":46051,"date":"2026-04-20T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46051"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:41:40","slug":"chinas-huawei-debuts-ai-glasses-to-challenge-meta-alibaba-and-rokid-in-crowded-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46051","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Huawei debuts AI glasses to challenge Meta, Alibaba and Rokid in crowded arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Huawei Technologies<\/span> has launched its first artificial intelligence glasses, as the Shenzhen-based tech giant joins an intensifying battle with US leader Meta and domestic peers including Alibaba Group Holding and Rokid in smart eyewear.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Priced from 2,499 yuan (US$367), the new eyewear weighed just 35.5 grams and featured various AI functions ranging from voice interaction to payments, according to a launch event on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Powered by Huawei\u2019s self-developed chip designed for eyewear, the glasses enable users to live stream and make video calls in first-person view. With multimodal AI capabilities, they could also estimate and track food calories, and allow payments by scanning a QR code, among other functions, according to He Gang, CEO of Huawei\u2019s consumer business.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The release marks a renewed push in Huawei\u2019s smart eyewear product line-up, which previously offered more basic functions such as translation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Huawei joins a growing list of tech giants doubling down on AI glasses, challenging Meta\u2019s smart eyewear \u2013 Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta \u2013 as well as offerings by Chinese peers Alibaba, Xiaomi and Rokid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People walk past the booth of Qwen during the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in March. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/20\/82829323-e801-442d-925a-88e6f6d426a8_1f3d051c.jpg\" title=\"People walk past the booth of Qwen during the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in March. Photo: Xinhua\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">People walk past the booth of Qwen during the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in March. Photo: Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meta dominated the AI smart glasses market with an 85 per cent share in 2025, shipping 7.4 million units, according to the latest data from Omdia last month. Its Oakley and Ray-Ban-branded glasses pushed its shipments up threefold in 2025, Omdia data showed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3350768\/chinas-huawei-debuts-ai-glasses-challenge-meta-alibaba-and-rokid-crowded-arena?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei Technologies has launched its first artificial intelligence glasses, as the Shenzhen-based tech giant joins an intensifying battle with US leader Meta and domestic peers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[20989,3970,250,6292,18896,1116,2980,1957,5987,2979],"class_list":["post-46051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-alibaba","tag-arena","tag-challenge","tag-chinas","tag-crowded","tag-debuts","tag-glasses","tag-huawei","tag-meta","tag-rokid","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}