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It seems like everyone is trying to get you to buy a face computer these days. Meta has seemingly endless pairs;\u00a0Google and Samsung are on the verge of getting in on the action; Apple might be interested. That\u2019s not even counting the array of popular big brands like Rokid and Alibaba that are looking to replicate the success of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses overseas.<\/p>\n

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Despite all that high-profile attention, there\u2019s one thing I didn\u2019t have on my bingo card, and that\u2019s smart glasses sweeping wireless earbuds into the trend. But, expected or not, here we are.<\/p>\n

The sudden interest in smart glasses is creating a whole new category: open-ear headphones\/earbuds with a camera on them. Quite a few pairs have already popped up. Take the X1 from a company called Auriview, for example, which bills itself as an \u201cAI bone conduction headset.\u201d This gadget, which you wear on your head, resembles bone-conducting earphones that you\u2019d use for running or other exercises. The difference is that a 4K camera is sandwiched on the side, enabling computer vision similar to that of popular AI glasses made by Meta, as well as the ability to record video and take pictures.<\/p>\n

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According to Auriview, the X1 is a bit of a tank, allowing up to 30 hours of continuous music playback. The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses, for comparison, have a maximum of eight hours of battery life, but that length plummets when continuous use like audio playback is taken into account.<\/p>\n

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The X1 is a bit of a Frankenstein. Other, similar gadgets have popped up over the past few months, and they\u2019re just as odd. A company called Rollme, for example, has a device called the Aircam, a gadget that it bills as \u201c3-1 AI camera earbuds.\u201d Like the X1, the Aircam comes with a camera for recording and for computer vision, but it also highlights premium audio, in particular 16mm \u201chi-fi drivers\u201d that can deliver \u201clossless\u201d sound. This one definitely leans into the audio\/wireless earbuds aspect of the form factor as well as the \u201csmart glasses\u201d of it all.<\/p>\n

If neither the X1 nor the Aircam was enough to convince you that there\u2019s a trend afoot, there are also recent gadgets like the MusicCam and the Mozin Fold M1 Pro, both of which follow a similar format: AI cameras that have a heavy dose of earbuds\/headphones in their DNA.<\/p>\n

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Mozin Fold M1 Pro<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u3053\u305f\u3046\u3061\u3000\u3055\u3093\u3055\u3093 (@kotauchisunsun) June 26, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The whole idea seems a little ridiculous, but I guess it does make sense in one way: they\u2019re not glasses. For someone who likes the feature set of smart glasses but doesn\u2019t want to, you know, wear glasses<\/em>, a headset like this would make sense. That being said, I have no idea who that hypothetical person would be. If you don\u2019t want to wear smart glasses because you are, for example, afraid of looking like a dummy, I can\u2019t see a big-ass headset with a camera jutting out solving the problem. Nothing about these headsets is discreet.<\/p>\n

I also have questions about privacy. Smart glasses have come under fire for slapping cameras on people\u2019s faces in a discreet form factor that enables the creepier people among us to record without being noticed. To help mitigate that creepiness, smart glasses companies have included LED indicators that tell others when the glasses are recording. It\u2019s not a perfect solution, but it\u2019s something<\/em>, and it\u2019s not even mentioned by the companies I listed above.<\/p>\n

Many of the products I just mentioned are made by relatively unknown companies, some of which are being crowdfunded, so I wouldn\u2019t bet on bone-conducting headsets with obnoxious cameras slapped on the side being the Next Big Thing, but the wearables space is clearly in a state of experimentation, so I\u2019d buckle up. Things are likely to get weird.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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It seems like everyone is trying to get you to buy a face computer these days. Meta has seemingly endless pairs;\u00a0Google and Samsung are on the verge of getting in on the action; Apple might be interested. That\u2019s not even counting the array of popular big brands like Rokid and Alibaba that are looking to replicate the success of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses overseas.<\/p>\n

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Despite all that high-profile attention, there\u2019s one thing I didn\u2019t have on my bingo card, and that\u2019s smart glasses sweeping wireless earbuds into the trend. But, expected or not, here we are.<\/p>\n

The sudden interest in smart glasses is creating a whole new category: open-ear headphones\/earbuds with a camera on them. Quite a few pairs have already popped up. Take the X1 from a company called Auriview, for example, which bills itself as an \u201cAI bone conduction headset.\u201d This gadget, which you wear on your head, resembles bone-conducting earphones that you\u2019d use for running or other exercises. The difference is that a 4K camera is sandwiched on the side, enabling computer vision similar to that of popular AI glasses made by Meta, as well as the ability to record video and take pictures.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Auriview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Auriview, the X1 is a bit of a tank, allowing up to 30 hours of continuous music playback. The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses, for comparison, have a maximum of eight hours of battery life, but that length plummets when continuous use like audio playback is taken into account.<\/p>\n

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The X1 is a bit of a Frankenstein. Other, similar gadgets have popped up over the past few months, and they\u2019re just as odd. A company called Rollme, for example, has a device called the Aircam, a gadget that it bills as \u201c3-1 AI camera earbuds.\u201d Like the X1, the Aircam comes with a camera for recording and for computer vision, but it also highlights premium audio, in particular 16mm \u201chi-fi drivers\u201d that can deliver \u201clossless\u201d sound. This one definitely leans into the audio\/wireless earbuds aspect of the form factor as well as the \u201csmart glasses\u201d of it all.<\/p>\n

If neither the X1 nor the Aircam was enough to convince you that there\u2019s a trend afoot, there are also recent gadgets like the MusicCam and the Mozin Fold M1 Pro, both of which follow a similar format: AI cameras that have a heavy dose of earbuds\/headphones in their DNA.<\/p>\n

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Mozin Fold M1 Pro<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u3053\u305f\u3046\u3061\u3000\u3055\u3093\u3055\u3093 (@kotauchisunsun) June 26, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The whole idea seems a little ridiculous, but I guess it does make sense in one way: they\u2019re not glasses. For someone who likes the feature set of smart glasses but doesn\u2019t want to, you know, wear glasses<\/em>, a headset like this would make sense. That being said, I have no idea who that hypothetical person would be. If you don\u2019t want to wear smart glasses because you are, for example, afraid of looking like a dummy, I can\u2019t see a big-ass headset with a camera jutting out solving the problem. Nothing about these headsets is discreet.<\/p>\n

I also have questions about privacy. Smart glasses have come under fire for slapping cameras on people\u2019s faces in a discreet form factor that enables the creepier people among us to record without being noticed. To help mitigate that creepiness, smart glasses companies have included LED indicators that tell others when the glasses are recording. It\u2019s not a perfect solution, but it\u2019s something<\/em>, and it\u2019s not even mentioned by the companies I listed above.<\/p>\n

Many of the products I just mentioned are made by relatively unknown companies, some of which are being crowdfunded, so I wouldn\u2019t bet on bone-conducting headsets with obnoxious cameras slapped on the side being the Next Big Thing, but the wearables space is clearly in a state of experimentation, so I\u2019d buckle up. Things are likely to get weird.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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