INMO GO2 — specification and verdict
The GO2 does one job and is built entirely around it. A binocular green display and a directional noise-cancelling microphone turn speech into subtitles in front of your eyes, across 40 languages and 90 accents online, with eight languages promised offline through a firmware update. It runs a full Android system on board rather than leaning on a phone, weighs 61 grams, and reaches 2000 nits so the text survives daylight. There is no camera anywhere on it, which is the same choice Even Realities made and for the same reason - these are glasses you can wear into a conversation. Translation output goes to a paired Bluetooth speaker rather than to on-board audio.
Availability is the first problem: INMO's global store no longer lists it, the product URL returns 404, and the collection page shows only GO3 models. The last archived price was 639 dollars on sale from 699, in October 2025. Before that it launched in China at 3,999 yuan. There is no device management, no kiosk mode and no enterprise tier. One caveat worth planning around: INMO states the offline translation was not shipped at launch and requires a firmware update to enable, and that offline mode covers Chinese and English only - not the eight languages the marketing lists. Charging wants a plain 5V 1A supply, because quick-charge protocols can fail.
Not a training device and not one we can deploy: our courses are Android VR builds and this is a subtitle display on a pair of glasses. Where it genuinely works is the job it was designed for - live translation in front of one person's eye, in a room where a camera would not be welcome. Two things to settle before buying: it is effectively out of distribution, with INMO's own store now showing only the GO3, and the offline translation is narrower than the marketing suggests.
How it compares within its class
The axis runs from the lowest to the highest published figure among the AI glasses devices in this catalogue. The grey tick is the median of that class.
Median for this class: 49 g, from 13 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 540 min, from 11 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 1500 nits, from 9 models that publish the figure.
Controllers and hand tracking
Operated by Touchpad on the temple · Ring.
Bare hands
No hand tracking.
Full specification
An em dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure.
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- INMO
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- AI glasses
- Device typeWhere the computing happens, and therefore what you need to run it.
- Standalone AR
- AnnouncedThe day it was shown, which is not the day it shipped.
- 2024-11-29
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2024
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- Discontinued
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: not published by the manufacturer
- DisplayHow the image is produced. "No display" is a real answer in this category, not a gap.
- Waveguide
- Eyes coveredOne eye or both. Over a full shift this is a real difference in fatigue.
- Both eyes
- Resolution per eyePixels delivered to each eye. Higher means small text and labels stay readable.
- Resolution per eye: not published by the manufacturer
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- Refresh rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- Field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Pixel densityPixels per degree of view — the honest way to compare sharpness between a headset and a pair of glasses. Higher is sharper. Only shown where somebody published it; we never compute it ourselves.
- Pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- BrightnessIn a plant or outdoors, brightness decides legibility more than resolution does.
- 2000 nits
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- 61 g
- Visible field of viewWhat the eye actually sees through the optics, by axis.
- Visible field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Rendered field of viewWhat the device draws. Never smaller than what you see.
- Rendered field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Binocular overlapWhere both eyes see the same thing — this is where depth happens.
- Binocular overlap: not published by the manufacturer
- Average pixel densityPixels per degree across the image. More is sharper.
- Average pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Peak pixel densityThe sharpest point, usually the centre of the lens.
- Peak pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Subpixel layoutHow the coloured dots sit in a pixel. A stripe looks cleaner on text than PenTile.
- Subpixel layout: not published by the manufacturer
- Foveated renderingWhether detail is dropped outside where you look, to save performance.
- Foveated rendering: not published by the manufacturer
- Vision correctionHow somebody who wears glasses uses it, and in what dioptre range.
- Vision correction: not published by the manufacturer
- DimensionsWidth, height and depth of the device itself.
- Dimensions: not published by the manufacturer
- Weight with strapWith the strap it ships with — the weight you actually wear.
- Weight with strap: not published by the manufacturer
- Head strapSoft band or a rigid one. Decides how the weight sits over an hour.
- Glasses frame
- MaterialsShell and facial interface, in the vendor’s words.
- Materials: not published by the manufacturer
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Colours: not published by the manufacturer
- Haptics in the headsetVibration in the headset itself, not in the controllers.
- Haptics in the headset: not published by the manufacturer
- TrackingWhether content stays put in the room (6DoF), follows head rotation (3DoF) or is simply fixed.
- None
- Tracking camerasHow many cameras it uses to know where it is.
- Tracking cameras: not published by the manufacturer
- Tracking rateHow often position is recalculated. Higher is steadier.
- Tracking rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Depth sensorA dedicated sensor for distance, on top of the cameras.
- Depth sensor: not published by the manufacturer
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- No
- Face trackingTracks facial expression — for avatars, not for training scenarios.
- Face tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Body trackingHow much of the body the device knows about. Estimated legs are not tracked legs.
- Body tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Controllers includedWhether motion controllers come in the box, or are bought separately — or the device is hands-only.
- Controllers included: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller tracking6DoF controllers track position and rotation, so a hand reaches in space; 3DoF only point. “None” means hands only.
- Controller tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Other input methodsWays in beyond controllers and bare hands.
- Touchpad on the temple · Ring
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Standalone (own computer)
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Processor: not published by the manufacturer
- CPUCores and clocks, where the manufacturer publishes them.
- CPU: not published by the manufacturer
- GPUThe graphics part of the chip.
- GPU: not published by the manufacturer
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- Memory: not published by the manufacturer
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Platform: not published by the manufacturer
- StorageOn-board space for downloaded courses. More matters for an offline library in several languages.
- Storage: not published by the manufacturer
- SD card slotWhether storage can be added with a card.
- SD card slot: not published by the manufacturer
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- 150 min
- Battery capacity (Wh)Energy in the cell. Bigger is longer, given the same power draw.
- Battery capacity (Wh): not published by the manufacturer
- Battery capacity (mAh)The same fact in the other unit vendors use. We never convert between the two.
- 440 mAh
- Charge timeFrom empty to full. Rarely stated by the manufacturer, so it usually comes from whoever timed it.
- Charge time: not published by the manufacturer
- ChargerPower of the supplied charger — it decides the charge time above.
- Charger: not published by the manufacturer
- External batteryBattery on a cable or a puck instead of on the head.
- External battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Charging caseExtra runtime carried in the case the glasses ship with.
- Charging case: not published by the manufacturer
- Hot-swap batteryWhether a charged battery can replace the empty one without ending the session. This is what decides if a headset can hold an all-day training station.
- Hot-swap battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Third-party appsHow a third party's application reaches the device: an ordinary Android package, a vendor-only SDK, or not at all.
- Closed platform
- Runs Skillsive appsOur own statement about whether Skillsive training applications run on it today.
- No
- Suitable for trainingOur judgement on whether it survives real deployment: comfort, hygiene, fleet management.
- No
- Kiosk mode / MDMVendor tooling to enrol devices, push an app and lock the headset to it. Practically required above ten devices.
- No
- Business tierAn official business tier, so devices belong to the company rather than to employees’ personal accounts.
- No
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Certifications: not published by the manufacturer
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- USB Type-C
- Wi-FiThe Wi-Fi generation — it decides how well wireless streaming holds up.
- Wi-Fi: not published by the manufacturer
- BluetoothFor controllers, headphones and accessories.
- Bluetooth: not published by the manufacturer
- Video from a computerWhether a computer can drive it, over a cable or wirelessly.
- Video from a computer: not published by the manufacturer
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Audio: not published by the manufacturer
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Yes
- MicrophonesHow many. An array picks a voice out of a noisy hall; one does not.
- Microphones: not published by the manufacturer
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- No
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Premium
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- Launch price: not published by the manufacturer
- Price by configurationWhat each configuration cost at launch.
- Price by configuration: not published by the manufacturer
- Price todayApproximate current net price in USD — a general figure, since these barely differ between regions once tax is stripped out. A snapshot from the date shown, not an offer.
- Price today: not published by the manufacturer
Who this device is for
Anyone who needs live translation subtitles in front of their eye and cannot put a phone between themselves and the other person - interpreters, people working across languages in meetings, travellers. Not a fleet purchase and not an EHS tool: no camera, no tracking, nothing to record with.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
No resolution and no field of view are recorded, and the reason is a good illustration of why this catalogue distrusts comparison tables. The only figures INMO publishes for the GO2 sit in a table comparing it with the first-generation INMO GO, and the Display row is byte-identical in both columns - the same 30 degrees, the same 640 by 480, the same 2000 nits for a binocular product and a monocular one. That cannot be true of both, so nothing from that table is used. The 640 by 480 and 30 degrees that circulate come from Chinese press repeating it. Dimensions, certifications, camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth versions and the Android version are all unpublished, and INMO's global store has removed the product entirely.
INMO GO2 in independent reviews
Reviews we consider worth your time, each with a note on what the reviewer actually tested and why it matters for a training rollout. We do not own this hardware, so the tests are theirs — the reading of them is ours.
- Đức Nhã2025
A Vietnamese review, and its language is part of the point: translation glasses are best judged by someone testing a language pair the maker did not design the demo around. Covers the 40-language online claim in practice.
Watch on YouTube - Михаил Кадяев | Всё о бизнесе на гаджетах 2025
A Russian-language review, giving a second non-English language pair. Between the two you get the thing the specification cannot tell you: whether the subtitles arrive fast enough to hold a conversation.
Watch on YouTube
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INMO GO2 — frequently asked questions
- Does the INMO GO2 translate without an internet connection?
- Partly, and later than the marketing suggests. INMO's own Chinese page states that the offline function was not live at the time of writing and has to be enabled through a firmware update, and that offline mode supports Chinese and English translation only. The eight offline languages listed elsewhere - Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Russian and German - describe the intent rather than what shipped. Online it covers 40 languages and 90 accents.
- Can I still buy an INMO GO2?
- Not from INMO. The product URL on its global store now returns a 404 and the store's own collection page lists only GO3 models. The last archived listing showed 639 dollars, reduced from 699, in October 2025. If you find one for sale it will be residual retail or second-hand stock, which matters more than usual here because the offline translation depends on a firmware update that only INMO can supply.
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