RayNeo iO — specification and verdict
The RayNeo iO weighs 33 g, with a magnesium-aluminium front and titanium temples, and shows a monochrome green binocular waveguide display (23.5°, 1300 nits at the eye) fed from a phone over Bluetooth 5.4. RayNeo built it without a camera and without a speaker: four microphones and a bone-conduction sensor listen, and the lens shows live captions and translation in 55 languages, a teleprompter, notes and notifications. The battery is rated at about two days of typical use, and an optional charging case adds more charges.
A phone accessory. The glasses pair over Bluetooth 5.4 with the RayNeo App on iOS or Android and show what the app and RayNeo's assistant send them: captions, translation, notes, a teleprompter. RayNeo's pages show no SDK, no APK route, no device management and no volume licensing, and with no camera there is no remote assistance or photo evidence. At work the realistic use is personal: a presenter, a trainer with a script, a person in a meeting in a second language.
A convincing pair of everyday glasses at 33 g with a display you glance at, and a personal tool rather than a platform. The limits are real: one colour, 23.5 degrees, no speaker, a phone required, and AI beyond the two included models behind a subscription. Not for training rollouts or fleets.
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: 26°, from 8 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 49 g, from 16 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 540 min, from 16 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 1500 nits, from 10 models that publish the figure.
Controllers and hand tracking
Operated by Voice.
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.
- RayNeo
- 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.
- Phone-powered AR
- AnnouncedThe day it was shown, which is not the day it shipped.
- 2026-08-21
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2026
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- On sale
- 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.
- 23.5°
- 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.
- 1300 nits
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- 33 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.
- Official lens inserts
- 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.
- AZ91D magnesium-aluminium alloy · titanium alloy
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Grey · Gold
- 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.
- Voice
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Driven by a phone
- 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.
- RayNeo App (iOS / Android)
- 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.
- 2880 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.
- 240 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.
- App lives on the phone
- 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.
- Suitable for training: not published by the manufacturer
- 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.
- Business tier: not published by the manufacturer
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- IP54 · TÜV SÜD Low Blue Light · TÜV SÜD Flicker-Free · EN ISO 12312-1
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- 2-pin charging connector (USB-C charging clip)
- 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.
- 5.4
- 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.
- None
- 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.
- 4
- 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.
- Mid range
- 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.
- $499
Who this device is for
For someone who talks to people for a living, or in a language they do not speak, and wants captions, a teleprompter and meeting notes in the line of sight without a camera on their face. At 33 g, in an IP54 frame, with a monochrome green waveguide (23.5°, 1300 nits at the eye), it is built for glancing at, not for looking at. It is a phone accessory, not a work platform: no speaker, no camera, no SDK, no fleet management, and nothing of ours runs on it.
How it differs from its predecessor
Next to the Even G2, the closest relative in this catalogue, it is 3 g lighter, narrower in view (23.5° against 27.5°) and $100 cheaper at the listed prices, and it swaps the G2's temple touchpad and ring for a physical Smart Crown and head gestures. Both are camera-free and neither has a speaker. Against the RayNeo X3 Pro it is the opposite philosophy from the same maker: no camera, no apps of its own, one colour, and less than half the weight.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
RayNeo publishes no resolution and no refresh rate for the display, and no dioptre range for the prescription lenses it fits at checkout ($159 extra, returnable only for a defect). There is no speaker, so translation is something you read, not hear. The product page names Bluetooth 5.4 and Apple's MFi programme but carries no Android statement; a later RayNeo article says setup works on iOS and Android. RayNeo calls caption processing fast and on-device, yet tells you to check the phone has a network connection before starting, and does not say what works offline. Only RayNeo AI and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite are free; ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen need a US$9.99-a-month subscription. The "up to two days" battery claim is RayNeo's typical-use figure, with 6.2 hours of continuous translation. There is no SDK and no device management. RayNeo's launch blog quoted $449 and its store now lists $499; RayNeo does not say which is the list price, so the table shows the store price as the current price only.
RayNeo iO 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.
- Tyriel Wood - VR Tech2026
Tyriel Wood treats the iO as hardware: 33 g, a binocular heads-up display, bone-conduction pickup and one feature he says RayNeo took from Apple's Vision Pro and that he grew to love. A good first look at how the display and the Smart Crown behave in use, from a reviewer who covers XR devices rather than phones.
Watch on YouTube - Skarredghost2026
The chapter list is the useful part: form factor, battery, display readability and the crown, then comfort issues, the cost of having no camera, display positioning and privacy, before a verdict on whether to buy. A reviewer putting the downsides in the open. He discloses that RayNeo supplied the glasses, so read it as an independent review on a loaned unit.
Watch on YouTube - Cas and Chary XR2026vendor material
Cas and Chary wore the iO for a few days and took it to a real meeting, which is the test that matters for a captions-and-teleprompter product. RayNeo sponsored this video, which is why we label it vendor material; the channel states that its opinions are its own.
Watch on YouTube
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RayNeo iO — frequently asked questions
- Does the RayNeo iO work with an Android phone, or only with an iPhone?
- RayNeo says the glasses pair over Bluetooth 5.4 through its RayNeo App, with setup on both iOS and Android. The product page itself names only Apple's MFi certification and has no separate Android compatibility statement, so check your handset with RayNeo before buying several pairs. The glasses are not standalone: RayNeo tells you to make sure the phone has a network connection before starting Live Captions.
- Does the RayNeo iO have a speaker for translations?
- No. RayNeo's spec sheet lists audio input only: a four-microphone array and a bone-conduction sensor that isolates your own voice. Translations and captions appear as text on the lens, so you read the other person instead of hearing a voice in your ear. That keeps the glasses quiet in a meeting, and it is the main thing to weigh if you expected earbuds.
- Does the RayNeo iO record conversations even though it has no camera?
- It can record sound. Voice Memo and Lifelog capture audio through the microphone array, and a white light at the temple tip shows when microphone features are running. RayNeo says Lifelog keeps the text generated from conversations and does not retain the original audio, and it reminds wearers that some regions require consent before recording. No camera does not mean nothing is recorded, so a workplace policy still has to cover it.
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