Beginner's guide to choosing smart glasses: Follow this order to avoid mistakes

I spent the weekend figuring out how to buy smart glasses and fell into quite a few traps. The market has been super hot lately. Data from RUNTO Tech shows that sales across all channels reached 909,000 units in the first half of the year, an 85.5% year-on-year increase, with revenue hitting 1.88 billion yuan—nearly doubling. But the hotter the data, the more pitfalls there are. Especially for complete beginners, brands like RayNeo, Rokid, and Qwen have tons of models, and the spec sheets look like gibberish. Terms like OLED, BirdBath, and optical waveguides will just scare you off after one glance.