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Xgimi is a Chinese company known as All-in-one smart projectorsis expanding its portfolio with a new line of equipped displays Smart glasses Which debuted at CES 2026. Unlike augmented reality glasses from companies like dead and popXgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One cameras move beyond a lighter, more discreet design that helps hide their smart AI-enabled functionality. After testing it for a week, I’m completely sold on the idea of a screen floating in front of my eyes that constantly feeds me useful information that no one else can see, but the MemoMind One doesn’t quite live up to Tony Stark’s fantasies just yet. There are some unique functions that I can’t get from my smartwatch or smartphone, but I’d need more to justify dropping half a grand (or more) on another smart wearable.
Xjime is Kickstarter launch For the glasses today, the company plans to start shipping them in late July. There are three styles to choose from, and while the full price will be $599, or $879 with prescription lenses, backing the Kickstarter brings it down to $399/$499. You can also customize the look of some styles with different colors, but that increases the price to $699/$879, which is discounted to $449/$499.
I tested a beta version with shareware and a mobile app that was buggy and missing some features. So, although I can’t think of what the final experience will be like, after a week I was impressed with some features and frustrated with others.
Similar to Meta Ray-Ban viewing glasses, $800the MemoMind One uses a pair of micro-LED projectors and transparent (but noticeable) waveguide prisms in each lens to create a display that only you can see. While the Ray-Ban’s screen is full color, the MemoMind One’s screen is bright green. It reminds me of the Apple II computers I used in elementary school, but it doesn’t feel like I’m using old technology because the experience of staring at a private screen suspended in the air still feels kind of futuristic. You can adjust the screen’s distance, position, and brightness, and while the bright green color helps it always pop and stay visible indoors, it was difficult to see outside on a sunny day if I wasn’t looking at something dark in the background to create more contrast.
Weighing in at about 47 grams, the MemoMind One is heavier than my reading glasses but still feels lightweight and comfortable, even with the oversized end pieces on each arm stuffed with batteries good for up to 16 hours of use, charging contacts, Harman Kardon speakers, and other electronics. Most people I wore had no idea they had any smart features – unless I was listening to something. As much as I would love to use the MemoMind One as an alternative to headphones, people around me could easily hear what was playing through their speakers even at the lowest volume, including phone calls that were far from private.
Raising your head or pressing the glasses’ single button near the right hinge activates the MemoMind One’s home screen, which displays the time, battery level, date and weather on the left with customizable information on the right. Through the app, you can choose up to four different sections such as stocks, news headlines from pre-selected sources (you can’t add your own RSS feeds), upcoming calendar events synced from your phone, to-do list, and notifications.
I was very excited to use the MemoMind One as a discreet alternative to glancing at my Apple Watch to check notifications or quickly respond to texts, but the glasses are definitely not a smartwatch. Most notifications from your phone will appear on the glasses screen with a shortened version of the message so you can get an idea of what it’s about. But there’s no way to read more than what’s in the short notice, and you can’t respond to messages or emails through the glasses.
Pressing and holding the glasses button or saying “hi, Memo” allows you to interact with MemoMind One’s AI assistant through voice commands while responses are displayed as text with the option to read them back to you. Responses usually take about four or five seconds, and I found myself frequently using Assistant instead of the current version of Siri on my watch. But I’ll admit that I was disappointed that there was no way to ask the AI assistant questions privately to make myself seem smarter than I actually am.
Double pressing the glasses button brings up the quick launch section which can be customized with access to three different functions. These could include a teleprompter that displays and scrolls text in line with your speaking rhythm, captions that are quickly generated while you’re watching something, and a voice recorder that displays near-real-time transcriptions of what the glasses could hear while a mobile app can generate summaries by artificial intelligence.
As a Canadian living near Quebec with very poor French skills, I was eager to test out MemoMind One’s live translation feature. A dialogue mode for back-and-forth conversations is promised, but for now I’ve only been able to test the glasses’ listening mode, which generates translated transcriptions on the screen.
Speed and accuracy are good, but it depends largely on how clearly the glasses’ microphone picks up the other person. Testing this with my French-speaking wife from across the room required her to raise her voice above normal volume while background noise such as music playing easily disrupted it. Quick access to the feature is convenient, but the translator cannot recognize which language is being spoken, so you first have to open the mobile app and select the languages between which the tool translates.
I was similarly frustrated when I tried to use the mapping feature in MemoMind One. Glasses with a head-up display that guides you to a location are a great idea, but you can’t ask AI to direct you to a destination. You need to open the mobile app, and the feature is currently limited to walking and cycling directions.
Xgimi is heavily touting the privacy aspect of its camera-free MemoMind One, but an optional feature called Moments isn’t. The glasses are constantly recording everything and everyone around you to create an often inaccurate summary of your day. It’s meant to be a kind of auto-generated diary that highlights important moments, but it gets a lot of details wrong and often confuses what you actually did since it relies solely on audio. Xgimi plans to charge $19.99 per month for the premium feature, but a better upgrade is to turn off Moments.
I have no doubt that glasses with displays will be a big part of our future, but I’m not yet convinced that the MemoMind One’s features will make me want to wear them all day. Although they offer some very useful features, they feel too dependent on the mobile app. If I’m going to have to go through the hassle of getting my phone out, I’ll only use it to complete a specific task. But there is some exciting potential here in the design It doesn’t look obnoxious when you wear itand I’m eager to visit MemoMind One again once Xgimi has finished and polished its software and features.
Photography by Andrew Leszewski/The Verge
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