At CES 2026, I met up with the folks from Lucyd, a company that makes smart glasses without cameras, which helps with privacy, battery life and style. At the event, I tried out the Lucyd Lyte and Lucyd Armor in collaboration with Reebok.

I’m a huge fan of wearable style, which is why I like my Meta Ray-Bans, and while my smart glasses are stylish, they’re a bit thick and look like smart glasses, especially when you notice the two cameras. The Lucyd Lyte, my favourite of the two series I tried out, looks like regular glasses — you cannot tell they’re smart glasses whatsoever, which is pretty impressive.

The Reebok Lucyd Armor smart glasses variant looks like sports glasses, which isn’t really my thing, typically; however, since I started playing badminton a couple of times a week, I’ve been considering it more and more — especially since I had to purchase strings for my glasses, which look pretty nerdy.

So, what’s the point?

Smart glasses like the Snap Spectacles use cameras to help take photos and apply AR overlays in the real world, and the Meta Ray-Bans use glasses to interact with your world, and take videos and photos, so why purchase the Lucyd smart glasses when they don’t have cameras?

Firstly, you might want them because they don’t have cameras. While wearing my Ray-Bans, I often have people say, “You’re not recording me, right?” I believe some people feel uncomfortable with the idea of smart glasses that can video you. I myself sometimes feel nervous wearing my glasses in places such as bathrooms or crossing the U.S. border, where people could believe I’m recording them without any cause, except, “well, your glasses have cameras.”

I also find that the Meta Ray-Bans don’t have the best battery life. The Lucyd Lyte has up to eight hours of battery life and charges to full in two hours.

The Lucyd smart glasses also offer Hi-Fi Audio, when I tried it out the glasses offered pretty good sound, but it was on the loud convention floor, so it wasn’t the best place to try and listen to music. And with Bluetooth, the glasses can connect with Spotify, Google Translate and more, letting you translate languages or listen to music, or make calls with the noise-cancelling microphones. You can also ask for directions with the glasses and send texts with whichever voice assistant is available on your phone, like Siri or Google Assistant.

Without a full review and putting these smart glasses through their paces, I definitely can’t call them the best on the market, but working with companies like Eddie Bauer or Reebok, they might soon be the most fashionable on the market, and perhaps the least creepy.