Rokid X-Craft — specification and verdict
The X-Craft is not a headset you put on a face but a headband you clip onto an existing safety helmet, with a binocular waveguide display in front of one eye area at 40 degrees and up to 1,600 nits so it stays readable in daylight. At 1280x720 per eye and 60 Hz it is enough for a work order, a checklist, a schematic callout or a live video call with a remote expert, and nothing more: a trainee cannot read dense text or a full procedure document on it. There is no positional tracking at all, so nothing on screen is anchored to the plant around the wearer. Input is voice through three noise-cancelling microphones plus a knob you can turn with industrial gloves, and there is a dedicated SOS button. The 10,000 mAh battery is rated for eight hours, which is the one specification that genuinely matches a shift.
This is bought as a certified safety device, not as IT hardware: the value is the ATEX Zone 1 and Zone 2 marking, IECEx, IP66 and MIL-STD-810G, which is what lets it through a gate where an ordinary Android tablet is not allowed. Rokid sells it in Europe through its own regional store and through industrial distributors including resellers in Poland and Germany, at an enterprise four-figure euro price per unit. Software is Yoda OS-XR behind Rokid's own SDK, so anything you deploy is either Rokid's remote-expert application or an integration a partner writes for you. We found no published vendor MDM or kiosk-mode offering, so fleet configuration should be assumed to be a manual per-device job until Rokid confirms otherwise. Hygiene is simpler than with a VR headset because the unit rides on the customer's own helmet rather than touching the face.
Buy it if you need augmented reality inside a Zone 1 hazardous area and the certification is the whole point; there is very little else with that marking. Do not buy it for training. Our courses are VR applications and none of them run on this device, and its stock situation is poor enough in 2026 that a procurement process should start by asking Rokid what is actually shippable.
How it compares within its class
The axis runs from the lowest to the highest published figure among the AR — industrial devices in this catalogue. The grey tick is the median of that class.
Median for this class: 24°, from 14 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 480 min, from 12 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 2000 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.
- Rokid
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- AR — industrial
- 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.
- 2020-11-29
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2020
- 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.
- ≈1280x720*Intrinsically Safe Store product specification
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- ≈60 Hz*Intrinsically Safe Store product specification
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- 40°
- 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.
- 1600 nits
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- ≈810 g*Aleger Global distributor specification (explosion-proof variant)
- 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.
- Helmet mount
- MaterialsShell and facial interface, in the vendor’s words.
- Materials: not published by the manufacturer
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Black
- Haptics in the headsetVibration in the headset itself, not in the controllers.
- No
- 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.
- No
- 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.
- Standalone (own computer)
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Amlogic A311D
- 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.
- 4 GB
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Yoda OS-XR
- StorageOn-board space for downloaded courses. More matters for an offline library in several languages.
- 128 GB
- 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.
- 480 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.
- 7200 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.
- Vendor SDK only
- 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.
- Yes
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- IP66 · ATEX Zone 1/2 · ATEX Zone 21/22 · IECEx Zone 1 · IECEx Zone 21 · II 2G Ex ib IIC T4 Gb · II 2D Ex ib IIIB T130°C Db
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- USB Type-C
- Wi-FiThe Wi-Fi generation — it decides how well wireless streaming holds up.
- 6
- BluetoothFor controllers, headphones and accessories.
- 5.0
- 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.
- Built-in speakers · Headphone jack
- 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.
- 3
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- Yes
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Enterprise
- 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
Plant, utility and rail engineering teams that need a remote expert to see what a technician sees inside an explosive atmosphere, and safety departments that cannot bring an uncertified device past the gate. It also suits integrators building a hands-free inspection workflow on Rokid's SDK. It suits nobody who wants immersive VR content.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
The explosion-proof ratings are first-party and come with certificate numbers — ATEX TPS 22 ATEX 113979 0001 X Rev. 01 and IECEx TPS 22.0007X, marked II 2G Ex ib IIC T4 Gb and II 2D Ex ib IIIB T130°C Db for an ambient range of −20 to +50 °C — but none of that appears on any Rokid page you can open today: the specification table survives only in archived copies of Rokid’s own B2B store, which has since gone offline, and the current European listing shows four sold-out SKUs and two sentences. Read the SKUs carefully, because they matter here: Rokid sells “X Craft 5G Atex” and “X Craft Wifi Atex” alongside “X Craft 5G STD” and “X Craft Wifi STD”, and by Rokid’s own naming the STD builds are not the certified product. Rokid also contradicts itself across revisions of the same page — IP66 in 2022 and again in 2024 but IP64 in April 2023, and 10 000 mAh revised to 7 200 mAh with the eight-hour runtime claim left unchanged. What it has never published, at any date, is a weight, any dimensions, a charge time, or any device-management documentation. A MIL-STD-810G rating that circulated in reseller listings appears in none of Rokid’s own material and has been removed from this record; the only shock claim Rokid makes is the bare word “shockproof”.
Rokid X-Craft — frequently asked questions
- Is the Rokid X-Craft certified for ATEX Zone 1 or only Zone 2?
- Both. It is marked for ATEX Zone 1 and Zone 2 with an IECEx equivalent, and it was the first augmented reality device to reach Zone 1 rather than the easier Zone 2. On top of that it carries IP66 against dust and water and MIL-STD-810G for drops. That marking, not the display, is the reason the device exists and the reason it costs what it costs.
- Can Skillsive VR safety training run on the Rokid X-Craft's 40-degree display?
- No. Our courses are immersive VR applications that need positional 6DoF tracking and a full field of view, and the X-Craft has no positional tracking at all and a 40-degree diagonal waveguide at 1280x720 per eye. It also runs Yoda OS-XR behind Rokid's own SDK rather than accepting a standard build. Use a standalone VR headset for the training and keep the X-Craft for live remote support in the hazardous area.
- Can you still buy a Rokid X-Craft in 2026, five years after launch?
- With difficulty. Rokid's own European store still lists the product with all four variants — 5G ATEX, Wi-Fi ATEX, 5G STD and Wi-Fi STD — showing as out of stock or pre-order, and at least one US industrial reseller now marks it as no longer available. Rokid has not published an end-of-support date. Treat it as an active line with unreliable supply and confirm lead times before you plan a rollout around it.
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