Chinese start-up develops AR glasses with facial recognition AI

Imagine meeting someone you should know but whose name you can't recall. Now imagine you're wearing a pair of glasses that will scan social media for a match on their face and display their name in front of one of your eyes within two seconds, sparing you embarrassment. Activate the glasses' camera function, look at an object and in seconds the brand, model number, its price on e-commerce websites and reviews of the product will scroll in front of that same eye. If you think that sounds like science fiction, think again: this is what Rokid Glass promises to do. In the words of Rokid's Reynold Wu, they will offer "an anytime, anywhere AR visual overlay in front of your eyes [that] effectively synthesises voice interaction, AI, and image AI".