Sector · Teleprompter
The script is in front of your eye, so you can look at the room
The one function ordinary people buy these glasses for today. Nine cases, from a CCTV anchor live on air to a chairman at China's Two Sessions, and one two-hour talk where the honest report says what got tiring.
A teleprompter has always cost you the same thing: your eyes. You look at the glass, at the monitor, at the cards, and the audience watches you not look at them. Putting the text on the lens gives the eyes back, and that is the whole product.
The most public demonstrations came from China. Li Shufu, chairman of Geely, wore StarV Air2 glasses on the floor of a CPPCC plenary session with his remarks projected on the lenses and synced to his speaking pace, and the tech press made the glasses the visual story of the session. He did it again at a Shanghai investment conference. A CCTV news anchor read the opening of a live Two Sessions programme off Rokid Glasses instead of the studio's fixed prompter, which let her move around the set. Rokid's own CEO gave a government keynote wearing the company's glasses, turning pages with a ring on his finger, and said on stage that he was nervous and had no script to hold.
The people who bought it for themselves
Below the stage there is a second group: a Google engineer who says the AI keeps his place even when he skips a word or two, and now makes real eye contact; a TEDx speaker who uses it for talks in English, his third language, and says it gave him confidence; a filmmaker who keeps his interview questions in view so he can follow an answer and come back; an executive who films talking-head video alone with nothing but a pocket camera, a lapel mic and the glasses. Every one of those is a testimonial published by the manufacturer, and every one is labelled that way on this page.
The two-hour report that says what it costs
The most useful case here is a Japanese frontend engineer who gave a roughly 120-minute talk on Even Realities G1 and wrote up what actually happened. He chose manual scrolling over AI auto-scroll to keep control of the pace, and worked out in advance how many lines of Japanese the display holds without scrolling, so his cue text would fit. He could keep looking at the room, and the built-in clock helped him pace a long talk. He also found that switching focus between phone, projector screen and lens was tiring, and that juggling slide clicks with the glasses' controls got confusing across two hours. Nobody selling these glasses will tell you that part.