Viture's New $299 AI Glasses Remember Your Life, No Camera

Viture is best known for chunky glasses that plug into a game console or laptop and project a big screen in front of your eyes. Its new product, Vonder, is a pivot: normal-looking glasses with no cameras and no screen. They cost $299, can be fitted with your prescription, come in several frame shapes and colors, and can be ordered starting September 28. They ship in November.

The glasses hide speakers and microphones in the arms, so you can take calls, hear map directions, and play music. Most of the time, Viture says, they only pick up the voice of the person wearing them, using sensors in the frame that feel the vibrations of your speech. There's a meeting mode that records the room around you, and a small blue light turns on when audio is being recorded. Battery life is about 16 hours. The built-in assistant mixes several leading AI models — OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and DeepSeek — choosing whichever is fastest and cheapest for each question. Over time it builds a "memory graph" of your life: coffees you drank, sports you play, ideas you mentioned.

Privacy is the big selling point here. Smart glasses have a reputation problem, largely because of Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Bans, and Viture explicitly distances itself from that. No camera means no photos of strangers. The catch: the recording indicator is smaller and less noticeable than Meta's, and the glasses are quietly gathering your own words all day, then storing and interpreting them. That's a lot of personal information in one company's hands, and AI advice can be confidently wrong.

The pitch got personal. CEO David Jiang says he used to shout criticism at his 10-year-old son during tennis matches, and the glasses noticed the pattern and messaged him: stop shouting, just be present. He credits that nudge with improving their relationship. It's a compelling story — and also an unverified one from the person selling the product. Still, it shows where wearables are heading: not just answering questions, but watching your habits and telling you who to be.