Digest note. We have not tested the Xiaomi AI Glasses ourselves. This page condenses published third-party reviews in our own words; sources are linked on the device page.
What it is. Xiaomi’s camera-and-audio glasses, with no display of any kind. Xiaomi’s listing gives a 12-megapixel Sony IMX681 at f/2.2 with a 105-degree field of view, a Snapdragon AR1 paired with a BES2700H chip, and 40 grams for the frame without lenses. 52audio’s measurement pass recorded stills at 4032 by 3024 and video at 2304 by 1728, 30fps, electronically stabilised, and its teardown logged model M2442G1 with a 263mAh cell, Bluetooth 5.4, 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 and IP54. Open-ear speakers, five microphones, plus a bone-conduction microphone inside the nose pad. Prices in China are CNY 1,999 for the standard trim, CNY 2,699 and CNY 2,999 for the two electrochromic ones. Everything beyond shooting and listening runs through a phone: ITHome and 52audio both had to install the Xiaomi Glasses app and bind the hardware before it responded to anything.
What reviewers like. Wear is where the five test programmes agree. ITHome weighed a pair with plano lenses at 45 grams, found no clamping, and reported that dance-style movement left the glasses in place. hottech’s own scale said about 47 grams, comfortable on a large head. The seven-reviewer Zhihu panel measured close to 40 grams and put the no-complaint window at six hours, with the glasses staying through running and cycling. 52audio logged 44.8 grams with the shipped lenses and praised the wear detection that pauses music when you take them off. The shooting habit is the second hook. hottech wrote that reaching for his phone simply stopped happening, and ITHome showed the first-person feed handed into WeChat video calls and Douyin, Bilibili and Weibo livestreams from one menu. On leakage, ITHome’s desk test says nobody at the next keyboard, or beside you on a high-speed train, hears output below 60 per cent volume, and a privacy mode pulls media and call audio lower again. Battery claims need reading carefully: Xiaomi’s 8.6 hours is a typical-use figure built from one recipe that ITHome spells out (90 minutes of calls, 15 minutes of video, 50 photos, 1,200 seconds of assistant talk, 20 image questions). Leikeji’s own heavier day kept 40 per cent left after three hours. A head-to-head carried on news.qq.com ran continuous recording until shutdown and got 46 minutes from the Xiaomi (stopping at 10 per cent remaining) against 33 minutes from a Ray-Ban Meta, whose clips cap at three minutes rather than ten.
What they don’t like. Launch firmware is the recurring complaint. hottech filmed the same rooms before and after the update pushed on 29 June 2025: first results were unusable in ordinary indoor light, grainy and smeared by shake, and the patch bought stabilisation at the cost of a slightly tighter view, landing indoor footage on the usable line. His question is why a tuned build did not ship on day one. Moving files is work: pulling clips back to the phone heated the handset and drained the glasses, and live streaming from the glasses to a Xiaomi 15S Pro stuttered while warming the phone more than usual. A full charge bought hottech 40-odd minutes of continuous recording before he was reaching for a power bank, and refilling took him just over 30 minutes, against Leikeji’s 45 minutes for the same job. The Zhihu panel found summer sun triggers thermal protection within minutes, screen going black, and eating or looking down trips the wear detector into a bluetooth disconnect-and-reconnect cycle. The assistant layer is thin: simultaneous interpretation goes through the cloud with five to ten seconds of lag, offers no foreign-to-foreign pairing, mistreats fast or accented speech, cannot take a follow-up question, and answers complex commands with a refusal. Same panel: the smart-home and car links are uneven, a phone can start a parked car’s air conditioning while the glasses reply that the function is unsupported, music reaches only QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music rather than Xiaomi’s own service, and the notification readout that Xiaomi’s older audio glasses had is gone. Physically, Leikeji measured the temple at 7.5mm through the middle and 4.6mm behind the ear against 3.1mm for his ordinary glasses, with the tip swollen to 6.5mm because power arrives through a bare USB-C socket instead of contacts; the Zhihu panel said the stiff, non-adjustable arms left noses sore. 52audio adds that night photos lose cleanliness, video has no resolution or frame-rate setting, the speakers have little low end, and the camera handoff only works with certain Xiaomi handsets.
Longevity and lock-in. The app is a requirement, not an extra. 52audio’s first boot dropped straight into pairing and states that binding in the Xiaomi Glasses app is mandatory; battery status, clip transfer, recording transcripts and summaries, interpretation, calorie logs and conversation history all sit inside it, and both 52audio and ITHome describe interpretation and meeting minutes as cloud round-trips. Two observed behaviours show how far the phone-side lock goes: Leikeji notes HyperOS handsets can invoke the glasses camera for calls, streaming and scan-to-pay, while 52audio records the same handoff as restricted to specific Xiaomi models, and music playback is limited to two Chinese services. Firmware does move, which matters for a product this young: the June 2025 build visibly changed camera output, and ITHome logged payment and parking-spot capture as functions promised for a later over-the-air update. None of the reviews states what still functions offline. Hardware upkeep is where the answers get thin. The supplied case has no opening for the cable, so Leikeji could not charge the glasses inside it; power goes in through the exposed USB-C on the temple, which two reviewers raised as a longevity worry, although the same socket does top up while you wear them. 52audio’s teardown found the cell printed 255mAh / 0.99Wh against the 263mAh on the spec sheet, and no battery-replacement route appears in any of these reviews. Prescription options split by trim: Leikeji reports the standard version takes a liner so an optician or an online lens service can cut glasses to your numbers, while the electrochromic versions cannot be fitted because of their lens stack, and their polarised liquid-crystal layer can show coloured patches and interfere with a car head-up display. Xiaomi’s own claim, quoted by Leikeji from the product listing, is roughly 400 optical shops in China able to fit lenses.
Our judgment. Inside a Xiaomi phone household, as a first-person camera and an ear-level assistant, this earns its CNY 1,999: weight, stability and the shortcut of shooting without a phone are the things five separate programmes actually praised. Pick the standard trim if you need prescription lenses, since the electrochromic ones cannot take ground glass. Do not treat it as a vlogging camera: clips stop at ten minutes, the raw footage needed a firmware update before indoor shots were presentable, and hottech’s own conclusion for ordinary vlog use was that the first build missed. If your day includes summer outdoors, a wide head, or a lot of looking down, expect the thermal blackout and the reconnect loop to find you.
Who should skip it. Anyone on iPhone or a non-Xiaomi Android who wants the camera handoff and the HyperOS-only conveniences, anyone whose interpreting is for fast or accented speech, and prescription wearers set on tinted lenses.