After years of testing the best smart glasses, I’ve grown a thicker skin than others when it comes to wearing obviously tech-looking devices on my face. But even by that standard, the vibes are way off with TCL’s RayNeo X3 Pro AR Smart Glasses.

The good news is that the tech is impressive. The binocular micro-LED displays run nice and bright at up to 6,000 nits and present a nice shared view across both eyes. Google Gemini offers an impressive multi-modal AI bedrock to RayNeo’s intuitive AIOS, which is itself really easy to use.

The app support is, actually, pretty great here, with the likes of TikTok, Instagram and WhatsApp forming an in-window perspective without staring down at your phone, and turn-by-turn directions forming a nice HUD so you never look lost.

But…look at them…just lo

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