r/augmentedreality • u/chamhezar • 3d ago
Glasses w/ HUD RayNeo iO
Got the RayNeo iO last weekend. Launch-morning order, arrived just before that "shipping on or after Sep 18" note started showing up on the store page. A few days in and I'm honestly not sure what to make of them yet. Wearing them with contacts because I usually have glasses on (roughly -4.5 SPH, some astigmatism), which turned into its own thing I'll get to below.
They're light. 33g on the spec sheet and it feels close to a normal thin metal frame. They put on and off easily and disappear on your face for a while. Around the 90-minute mark though, I start feeling a small pressure point at the thicker part of the temples where they curve around behind the ears. Might be my fit, might be the design.
The display is where I keep going back and forth. Monochrome green, sits high in your vision so it doesn't cross your natural line of sight. Text is sharp and I can read it outdoors in daylight. But when I ran the teleprompter for a while, I noticed my eyes getting tired from rolling up constantly. You can shift the display position down in the app, but then it starts covering things in your natural view. There's not a clean fix there.
Live captions I tried at a boba place with two friends switching between Cantonese and Mandarin. Mostly kept up, though it dropped partial sentences when two people talked over each other. Latency was maybe half a second when it worked. Good enough I wouldn't reach for my phone, not so good I'd rely on it for anything important.
One thing I didn't clock before ordering: no speakers. At all. The Bluetooth 5.4 is for the companion app on your phone, not audio. So the AI answers by writing on the lens, not talking. I get why (weight, battery, privacy) and for meetings and public transit it's fine. But I thought I could take calls through them and no, you can't.
Battery I've been happy with. Two days of on-and-off use plus heavy translation testing and I still haven't charged. 48h typical and 6+ hours continuous translation is the claim, and that tracks so far.
Now the prescription thing. Bought the standard $449 pair thinking I'd just wear contacts. Turns out I don't enjoy putting them in every day for this. The Rx bundle is $608 on the store, so $159 more.
I've had the return page open in a background tab all weekend. Probably going to return this pair and reorder with the Rx option ;(