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XGIMI has taken a slightly different approach to the growing smart glasses trend. Where a brand such as TCL packs high-resolution displays and Snapdragon chipsets into its RayNeo smart glasses, XGIMI sticks to what it knows: the brand’s upcoming MemoMind smart glasses use microscopic projectors to throw a heads-up display onto the lenses.
The MemoMind glasses come in a variety of styles, and thanks to the technology behind them, resemble regular specs quite closely. To that end, you can pick up a pair in your prescription if needed, although this will add a fair whack to the already-substantial £599 price tag.
What can they do?
Currently, the MemoMind glasses are a little limited – not by features, but instead by the detail that the tiny projectors are capable of showing. The heads-up display is positively retro: text and interface elements are cast in a shade of green reminiscent of Fallout’s Pip-Boy, a far cry from the high-res HDR displays inside rival glasses. But it does the job, and it does so without distracting you too much from your surroundings, which is in my eyes a crucial factor.
I put a pair on at XGIMI’s MWC 2026 booth, and asked it aloud to jot down the time of my departure flight. It obliged fairly smoothly, adding the flight to my schedule. I also played with the MemoMind’s instantaneous translation feature, which let me quickly see an English translation of a Chinese phrase spoken by the booth guide. I was particularly impressed by the glasses’ teleprompter feature, which loads a speech and slowly scrolls it – ideal for subtly checking your notes as you deliver a speech.
Most of these things – including navigating the user interface – are controlled by a touch or press of a button on the right-hand side of the glasses, but the MemoMind must also be connected to a smartphone to show notifications, news, weather, directions and calendar invites. A pair of temple speakers play basic audio, with the MemoMind displaying lyrics and song information in tandem.
The MemoMind glasses deliver these features by way of a multi-LLM operating system that can choose the best AI for the task, whether that’s OpenAI, Azure or Qwen. They’ll run for 16 hours on a single charge: XGIMI is still working on a charging case – which will take the total battery life up to one week – but for now you’ve got a simple two-pronged magnetic affair.
XGIMI MemoMind: Early verdict
As a slow adopter and sizeable skeptic of AI-enabled technology such as this, I was pleased with XGIMI’s commitment to keeping intrusiveness to a minimum – both the design of the glasses and the pared-back HUD speak to a desire for minimalism, which I’ve found to be in short supply here in Barcelona. I’m hesitantly interested to see how the wider community takes to these glasses; I suspect the HUD will be divisive, and the price tag is undeniably hard to pallet, but they look much better than most other pairs I’ve seen.
The MemoMind glasses will launch in summer 2026 in the UK for £599.
