These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

Lots of astute glasses person AI bots wrong them now. The 1 successful L'Atitude 52°N’s glasses is called Goya, named aft Francisco Goya, the celebrated Spanish creator who painted renowned masterpieces of romanticism.

CEO and laminitis Gary Chen, who has worked connected wearable devices for companies similar Oppo, OnePlus, and HTC, says his company’s glasses are focused connected travelers, with AI features that enactment similar a circuit usher and speech astir each the paintings successful celebrated museums.

“Basically, you tin say, ‘Hey, Goya, what is the communicative astir Mona Lisa?’” Chen says. “You tin inquire thing and, with your permission, they volition instrumentality a photograph to analyse what’s successful beforehand of you.”

I inquire if you could quiz it astir possibly the astir celebrated Goya painting, the terrifying, Gothic horror-esque representation of Saturn devouring his ain son.

“Yes, yes,” Chen says, “It tin besides springiness you immoderate recommendations astir restaurants.”

Berlin-based L'Atitude 52°N is simply a caller subordinate successful the smart glasses space, selling its archetypal pairs connected Kickstarter successful September 2025, wherever the campaign surpassed its backing extremity and raised much than $400,000. There person been immoderate bumps since then, arsenic shipments were delayed from an primitively announced release date successful February 2026, and 1 exemplary successful improvement was scrapped outright. Now, L'Atitude 52°N has announced an authoritative merchandise day for its astute glasses.

Preorders for 1 model, called Berlin, commencement connected May 19. The glasses really spell connected merchantability connected May 26. This mightiness beryllium a disappointment for Kickstarter backers, arsenic the most caller authoritative update from the run came successful March and said shipping would statesman connected April 15 for Berlin units and June 7 for the 2nd model, called Milan. L'Atitude 52°N inactive hasn’t acceptable an authoritative motorboat day for the Milan, but to accidental that it volition beryllium “arriving successful the 2nd 4th of 2026.”

The Berlin glasses outgo $399. Add different $50 for the photochromatic lenses. There is 1 precise large catch: The AI features enabled connected the instrumentality volition lone enactment for 12 months, which L'Atitude 52°N calls an “AI diagnostic trial.” After that, customers person to wage for a subscription service, oregon volition beryllium constricted to the basal features, similar playing euphony and capturing media.

How overmuch volition that subscription work cost? Chen says helium doesn’t know.