Smart glasses
Can include camera-and-audio AI glasses with no display, simple heads-up displays, wearable monitors and more advanced AR products.
AR glasses vs smart glasses
Smart glasses is the broader term. AR glasses are a subset that place digital visual content into your view of the real world.
AR glasses
Include a visual display and overlay digital information into the wearer's field of view. More advanced AR systems may also track head position, surfaces or spatial anchors.
Display glasses are not always full AR
A pair of glasses that mirrors a flat screen in front of you can be a wearable display without understanding the physical environment around you.
AI glasses are not always AR
Camera-and-audio glasses can run sophisticated AI while having no visual display at all.
A useful classification
GlassesDB separates products into AI glasses, HUD glasses, display glasses and AR glasses because those labels describe the user's experience more clearly than treating every product as the same category.
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