XGIMI, best known in Pakistan and globally for its projectors, has stepped into the smart glasses market with the MemoMind One, a waveguide second-screen device that arrives with genuinely impressive hardware credentials and one deeply problematic software feature that threatens to overshadow everything good about it.
Weighing in at 47 grams, the MemoMind One is comfortable enough to wear all day, with the weight split between the end pieces and the temple tips behind the ears. Each lens has a transparent waveguide prism tied to a micro-LED projector, beaming a perceived floating display that can show notifications, real-time captions, translation, AI responses and turn-by-turn directions, alongside a tilt-activated dashboard showing calendar, to-do list, news headlines, notes, and song lyrics. Each temple tip includes a Harman EFX speaker module for calls and Bluetooth audio, with battery life comfortably handling a full day of heavy use including constant notifications, music playback, calls, and AI interactions.
The device has a single button on the right end piece that must handle quadruple duty, handling dashboard activation, page cycling, AI wake-up via long press, and a double-click quick options menu, leading to frequent misclicks. The AI itself is impressive, capable of pulling from up-to-date sources to answer real-time questions, though turn-by-turn navigation was not available to test at time of writing. The hardware package is solid enough that the reviewer describes genuinely liking wearing the glasses as a daily second screen, finding the notification triage, calendar access, and audio quality all meaningfully useful.
What undermines all of that is the Moments feature, where the glasses’ built-in microphones record everything around the wearer at all times, with an AI then processing the audio to generate a summary of the user’s day. In practice, the summaries are wildly inaccurate, attributing overheard conversations, YouTube videos, and television dialogue to the user as personal events, including logging a pre-roll advertisement as a work invoice incident and a fictional character’s desire from a TV episode as a personal wish. A companion feature called Wishes logs any yearning language it detects, whether spoken by the wearer, overheard from others, or heard from television or podcasts. XGIMI charges $19.99 per month for the Moments and Wishes service, or offers a year free to Kickstarter pre-order customers who put down a $30 deposit.
On pricing, MemoMind One will retail at $599 without prescription lenses and $749 with them, with Kickstarter pre-order pricing of $399 and $499 respectively, available in three styles: Nomad in Wayfarer, Gotham in Clubmaster, and Archive in Panto. The Even Realities G2, its most direct competitor, is priced at $599 without lenses with additional costs for accessories, while Captify’s smart glasses are priced at $700. The overall verdict from the review is a score of 7.4 out of 10, with the reviewer urging patience rather than an immediate pre-order purchase, recommending that XGIMI refine the control limitations, address the Moments accuracy and privacy concerns, and bring the price down before a full public launch rather than asking early adopters to pay a premium for a product that still has visible rough edges.
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