Rokid Glasses 2 Launch With 263mAh Battery and Dolby Audio

What Rokid launched

Rokid, the Hangzhou company that sells its products in China under the name 乐奇, used its "Rokid Jungle 2026" event on October 27 to announce Rokid Glasses 2. The product is the second generation of its AI glasses with a built-in display.2324 The headline changes are a new frame, a bigger battery, better audio and a faster chip. None of them is radical, but together they make the glasses easier to wear all day. The company says the same thing: its own framing is about making AI glasses something people use every day, not about adding novelty features.26

The first Rokid Glasses went on sale in China in 2024 and reached global markets about nine months later as the Rokid Glasses (With Display).1 The new model is up for pre-order on JD.com, Tmall and the TikTok store and ships on November 11. Rokid has not said when it will be sold outside China.1

Design, battery and audio

The frame now has a rounded-square, or "squircle," shape. Its flexible temples open 22% wider than before, and Rokid says the new nose pads are softer on the skin and less likely to leave marks.1 Chinese coverage adds a detail that Western reports left out: the optical engine is 30% smaller than the previous one, and the overall length is 1mm shorter.2326 Ifeng's on-site report adds that the temples got thinner even as the battery grew, and gives credit for that to Qualcomm's newer chip.28

The battery numbers line up across all the reports. Capacity goes from 210mAh to 263mAh, which Chinese outlets describe as a 25% increase.123 Ifeng also passes on a claim that real-world battery life improves by about 50%. That figure goes well beyond the capacity increase and should be read as Rokid's claim until reviewers test it.28 Rokid also released a second-generation Power Capsule, sold separately. With the case and capsule fully charged, it can recharge the glasses six times. Rokid says it charges from empty to 90% in 30 minutes and works with first-generation glasses too.126

The Dolby feature is about playback, not recording. Rokid uses a new speaker unit that it says covers a wider frequency range without a bigger diaphragm, and the sound tuning carries Dolby certification.26 For voice input there are four omnidirectional microphones plus a bone-conduction mic, which Rokid says handles wind noise better.130

Display, camera and compute

The display hardware is mostly unchanged. It is still a single-color green microLED waveguide at 480 × 380 resolution, with a 25° field of view and 1,500 nits peak brightness.1 The work went into how clear the lenses look instead. Rokid says reflections are down 70%, the rainbow artifacts common on waveguides are down 60%, and light efficiency is up 30%. It also says the parts of the lens outside the grating let through 98% of light.2426 Magnetic clip-on prescription lenses are still supported.1

The camera is still 12MP, but it now records 4K at 30fps and 2K at 60fps.1 Rokid added a preview before you take a photo, so you can check the framing first. That fixes a long-standing problem with camera glasses: you usually don't know what you shot until afterwards.2430 Rokid says the night-video processing is the first of its kind in smart glasses, though the company is the only source for that claim.1

The glasses run on two chips. A Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 does the heavy work, and an efficiency chip from Bestechnic handles lighter tasks. They are paired with Android and a lightweight real-time OS (RTOS) that split work by power need.23 Notebookcheck and Beijing Business Today name the second chip as the BES2800BP. Ifeng calls it a 6nm BES2900BP.12328 Most reports, including the company-sourced write-ups, say BES2800BP, so ifeng's version looks like a mistake. RAM and storage stay at 2GB and 32GB.1

Price and the AI pitch

The price looks different depending on where you read about it. Notebookcheck gives list prices of CNY 3,699 for black and CNY 3,849 for tortoiseshell, roughly $555 and $577.1 Chinese outlets lead with the price after China's national consumer subsidy: CNY 3,199 and CNY 3,349.2426 For buyers in China, the subsidized price is the one that matters. For anyone comparing against Western products, the list price is the fairer number.

On software, Rokid wants the glasses to do things, not just answer questions. The features include meeting notes with summaries and to-do lists, call translation in 89 languages with voice cloning, and an all-day "recall" mode that can bring back things you said or saw earlier.24 Notebookcheck says the glasses work with desktop AI agents including Codex, OpenCode, Alibaba's Qoder and Tencent's WorkBuddy.1 Chinese reports describe partnerships with Meituan, Xiaohongshu and Tencent's ride-hailing service. Rokid says its platform has more than 45,000 registered developers and over 700 published agents.26

Accessibility is part of the release too. For deaf and hard-of-hearing users there are speaker identification and live captions. For visually impaired users, Rokid is testing obstacle alerts and spoken guidance with JD's research arm.2630

At the same event Rokid showed Rokid Color, a 55-gram pair of glasses with full-color displays in both lenses, starting at CNY 4,999 with deliveries from April 2027. It also showed a CNY 1,699 smart ring for gesture control.2224 Ifeng reports that Rokid cited Counterpoint Research data ranking it first worldwide among AI glasses with displays in the first half of 2026.28

How it fits with Meta's latest glasses

The timing makes the most sense next to Meta. At Connect in September, Meta launched the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 at $449, which adds an hour of battery life for nine in total, plus a six-microphone array.17 Meta also announced Dolby Atmos video capture for its glasses, calling them the first consumer device able to record and play back in Atmos.17 So Dolby branding is now standard for flagship glasses, and that makes Rokid's Dolby-certified playback feel like catching up more than pulling ahead.

Reviewers have been lukewarm about this kind of gradual improvement. Wired's Gen 3 review said none of the upgrades were revolutionary.9 CNET's Scott Stein said Meta's new camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio fixes one complaint but leaves bigger questions open.3 That audio-only model, at 43 grams with up to 12 hours of battery life, is now on sale in Germany for €349.4 Rokid's 263mAh battery has to be weighed against that: it carries a display, a camera and two chips, and still costs about €500 at list price.1

The bigger difference is the display. Meta's only display model in this market is the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, which is now sold in Germany, the UK, Canada, France and Italy.1317 Rokid's display glasses cost less and push harder on AI agents. The trade-off is that they are tied to Chinese services and are not yet sold abroad.

The wider AR and VR picture

Other companies are converging on glasses. Samsung's Gemini-powered glasses, made with Google, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, have no display and are due in November. A Samsung official has confirmed the month, but not a date or price.15 Meta's VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams, use a separate processing puck, support Dolby Vision and Atmos, and arrive in spring 2027 for $1,299.99.1620 Snap Specs cost $2,195.13

Apple, meanwhile, is quiet on the hardware side. visionOS 27.2, released October 26, is mainly bug fixes plus Siri AI support for five more languages.33 Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple's redesigned Vision Pro, codenamed N224, is on "life support" and unlikely to arrive before late 2028. He also reports that engineers have been moved to smart glasses, which are expected around late 2027 and will have no display at first.3735

Rokid Glasses 2 does not change the category. What it does show is where the competition has moved: comfort, battery life, audio quality and AI agents now matter more than display specs. Apple is moving its own effort from headsets toward glasses, and a Chinese company with a display product already in its second generation is ahead of where Apple is likely to be next year.