Rokid Glasses 2 brings 4K camera and Dolby Audio support

Rokid didn't ship one sequel to its AI glasses this week. At its Rokid Jungle event on October 27, the company unveiled two separate products instead: the monochrome Rokid Glasses 2 and an entirely new full-color line called Rokid Color, each built for a different kind of user (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Glasses 2 keeps the single green microLED waveguide display from the original line (480×380 resolution, 25-degree field of view, 1,500 nits) but adds a 12MP/4K camera, Dolby Audio support, and a new Snapdragon AR1+/BES2800BP dual-chip platform (Wareable, this week). Rokid Color replaces that display entirely with a custom 0.16cc full-color microLED optical engine rated for 100% sRGB coverage, packs it into a 55-gram frame, and is explicitly positioned against Meta's display glasses (Notebookcheck, this week).

The split tells its own story. Glasses 2 is a hardware refresh of a device built for quick AI prompts, translation, and video capture, while Rokid Color is a newer, more visually ambitious product whose display engine currently outpaces its disclosed specifications (The Gadgeteer, this week; Notebookcheck, this week).

Rokid Glasses 2's 4K camera and Dolby Audio upgrades

The headline change is the camera. The 12MP sensor now records 4K at 30fps, 2K at 60fps, and 1080p at 60fps, and Rokid says it added a "super night video" algorithm the company calls an industry first, a claim worth attributing to Rokid rather than treating as independently verified (Notebookcheck, this week).

Audio gets a comparable overhaul. Rokid added Dolby Audio support, four omnidirectional microphones, and a bone-conduction microphone the company says is meant to keep voice capture clear in windy conditions (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Underneath, Rokid swapped in a Snapdragon AR1+ paired with a BES2800BP co-processor, alongside Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3. RAM and storage, though, stay at 2GB and 32GB, the same configuration as the previous generation (Notebookcheck, this week). Battery capacity rises from 210mAh to roughly 263mAh, about a 25% increase, and an optional Power Capsule 2 accessory can recharge the glasses roughly six times on a full charge (Wareable, this week; The Gadgeteer, this week). The frame itself got some attention too: temples open 22% wider than before, and Rokid says the lenses are 70% less reflective, figures that describe the company's own design claims rather than independent measurements (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Because the display and memory specs carry over unchanged, this generation's visible upgrades sit in capture and audio rather than visuals, a pattern that lines up with Rokid's own framing of Glasses 2 as a tool for live translation, meeting transcription, and desktop AI agents rather than a display showcase (Notebookcheck, this week).

Rokid Color smart glasses: how the full-color microLED display works

Rokid Color's optical engine is the bigger technical swing of the two launches. The custom 0.16cc full-color microLED system is rated for a 167% sRGB gamut volume and 100% sRGB coverage, a jump in color capability that the single-color Glasses 2 display simply doesn't attempt (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Separate launch coverage citing the outlet VR Tuoluo lists a 500×380 resolution, 25-degree field of view, and 1,000-nit brightness for Rokid Color, but those figures arrive through secondary reporting rather than Rokid's own confirmed spec sheet, so they shouldn't be read with the same confidence as the optical-engine numbers above (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Input options extend past temple touch controls and voice to include smartwatch and smartband pairing, eye tracking, and a separately sold Rokid Ring that doubles as a gesture controller priced at CNY 1,699, about $255. What's still missing is anything about the hardware actually driving the experience: Rokid hasn't disclosed Color's processor, camera, battery capacity, or battery life (Notebookcheck, this week).

The reasoning behind the display split is straightforward even if the execution details aren't. Glasses 2's green waveguide is suited to short-lived text prompts like translation and navigation cues, while Rokid Color's full-color system is designed to render images, video, and richer graphical interfaces, a use case monochrome glasses can't approximate (The Gadgeteer, this week). Nothing in the available coverage shows those richer experiences running on finished hardware yet.

Rokid Color vs Meta Ray-Ban Display: what the comparison actually shows

Rokid invites the Meta comparison directly. At 55 grams, Rokid Color is light enough that the company markets it as a direct rival to Meta's display glasses rather than a niche alternative (Wareable, this week).

Pricing is murkier. Wareable describes Rokid Color's two price points, CNY 4,999 (about $750) and CNY 5,499 (about $825), as tied to memory configuration, a 2GB/64GB model versus a 4GB/64GB model (Wareable, this week). The Gadgeteer, however, attributes the higher price to the Tortoiseshell color option rather than extra memory (The Gadgeteer, this week). The two accounts don't agree, and nothing in the available reporting resolves whether frame finish, memory, or both actually determine the price gap.

The launch coverage reviewed for this article contains no independent hands-on comparison of display brightness, field of view, software maturity, or social acceptability between Rokid Color and Meta's display glasses. The rivalry framing comes from Rokid's own positioning, not a verified side-by-side result.

Rokid has made category-wide claims before. A report six months ago cited a Shangpu Group tracking window covering November 2024 through October 2025 that put Rokid ahead of competitors in global unit sales for AI glasses with a display (VR.org, 6 months ago). That claim covers Rokid's prior hardware generation, not Color or Glasses 2, so it says more about Rokid's market position heading into this launch than about how the new products will actually perform.

Release dates and the AI ecosystem behind Rokid smart glasses at CES 2027

Rokid Glasses 2 has the clearest path to market. Chinese preorders opened October 27, shipping is set for November 11, 2026, and pricing starts at CNY 3,699 (about $555) for the black model, rising to CNY 3,849 (about $577) for Tortoiseshell (The Gadgeteer, this week).

Rokid Color is further out. The company's reported target is an April 2027 shipping window in China, and that timeline is explicitly contingent on finishing the product's surrounding ecosystem, which makes it a target rather than a locked date (Notebookcheck, this week).

Both products are headed overseas eventually. Rokid has confirmed it will debut global versions of Glasses 2 and Rokid Color at CES 2027 (Wareable, this week). That's a confirmed global announcement, not a confirmed international retail launch; separate reporting notes Rokid hasn't set a release date outside China, so pricing and availability for markets beyond China remain unknown for now (Notebookcheck, this week).

Software is where Rokid is leaning hardest on ecosystem breadth. Glasses 2 adds support for desktop AI agents including Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, Alibaba's Qoder, Tencent's WorkBuddy, and OpenCode, building on Rokid's earlier move to run Gemini, ChatGPT, Qwen, and DeepSeek natively on its original glasses without a phone tether (Notebookcheck, this week; VR.org, 6 months ago).

The real news judgment here is the gap between the two products, not a single spec. Rokid Glasses 2 has a confirmed China ship date, published pricing, and a full hardware sheet. Rokid Color has a striking display engine, an eye-catching weight figure, and almost nothing else locked down: no processor, no camera, no battery capacity, no battery life, and a shipping target that depends on work Rokid hasn't finished. Anyone weighing either device should treat CES 2027 as the moment to watch for international pricing and hardware, and should hold off on trusting brightness, comfort, or image-quality claims about Rokid Color until independent hands-on testing exists.