RayNeo iO, GT and GT Max: everything we know before IFA 2026

Published on 2026-08-30

All three went on sale on September 4, 2026, the day IFA opened in Berlin (Hall 21A, through the 8th), and can be bought today from RayNeo’s European store with euro pricing. This article was updated that same day with the official prices. Two deliberately opposite product lines: 33-gram glasses built to disappear, and two pairs of cinema glasses projecting up to a 307-inch virtual screen.

This is not a crowdfunding promise. RayNeo ships more consumer AR glasses than anyone else — 23.7% of global shipments in Q1 2026 by the company's own figures.

The short version

RayNeo iO: glasses designed to disappear

33 grams is the headline. Ray-Ban Meta are around 50; Engadget calls the Meta Ray-Ban Display flatly "chunky". The iO weighs about what ordinary spectacles do.

The display is a diffractive monochrome green waveguide with 97% optical transparency and 1,300 nits at eye level, driven by a 0.085 cc Firefly Nano engine. At 23.5° the field of view is modest by design: this is for captions, directions and answers layered over what you are already looking at, not for watching films.

Build quality is serious: AZ91D magnesium-aluminium chassis, aerospace-grade titanium temples, IP54, and Bluetooth 5.4 with Apple MFi licensing.

RayNeo AI and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite are included free. A $9.99/month tier unlocks Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek — the first time consumer glasses have openly charged a subscription for the brain.

The real selling point is translation. RayNeo partnered with Timekettle to run BabelOS 3.0: 55 languages, 109 accents, roughly one second of latency, with subtitles rendered on the lens. Battery holds 6.2 hours of continuous translation or 18 hours of continuous recording. There is also an auto-teleprompter and a four-mic array with a bone-conduction sensor.

Two real drawbacks. There are no speakers — only a bone-conduction microphone. Engadget considers this a design failure, calling a speaker "a requirement on everyday smart glasses." No music, no spoken answers, no calls: everything happens on the lens. And there is no camera, which cuts both ways — no photos, but also none of the privacy problem that follows the Ray-Ban Meta around.

GT and GT Max: unapologetic personal cinema

The GT Max runs 120 Hz Micro-OLED at 59°, scaling the virtual screen to 227 inches at 85%, 267 at 100% and 307 inches at 115%, through a Peacock Original Engine 3.0 Max. The GT stops at 46° and 231 inches.

Both carry four Bang & Olufsen speakers with head-tracked spatial audio, a Vision 4000 image processor and a Zone 360 3DoF chip. Both are the first AR glasses with native Dolby Vision playback, with AI HDR conversion. GT Max comes in three IPD sizes (S under 64 mm, M 64–67, L over 67), and both take official prescription inserts.

Their competition is the XREAL One Pro and Viture Luma Pro, not Ray-Ban Meta.

The prices — and why the numbers floating around were wrong

RayNeo published two figures per model: the MSRP (€549 for the iO, €369 for the GT, €489 for the GT Max) and a launch price until 20 September 2026: €499, €339 and €459.

Before the announcement, $299 and $399 circulated as “the price” of the GT and GT Max in third-party spec databases and some media. They matched the launch price and missed the MSRP, which is $329 and $429. Anyone who copied those figures as a fixed price now has a table that silently expires on September 20. We printed “—” until the official number existed; today we publish both figures, each under its own name.

Also new today: RayNeo finally publishes how the GT and GT Max connect — “direct connection via DisplayPort-compatible USB-C” to your phone, laptop or console, with an HDMI adapter for PS5, Xbox and Switch. What remains unpublished is the battery: the spec table has no such row.

Why two opposite lines at once

Founder and CEO Howie Li frames it as deliberate: the iO is "an invisible, all-day assistant" and the GT Series is "uncompromising personal cinema for travel and entertainment." One line strips hardware away until it vanishes; the other adds it because the screen and the sound are the product.

Buying from Europe: read this first

All three models are on sale now at RayNeo's European store, eu.rayneo.com, with euro pricing and an EU warehouse. The press release also mentions Amazon, but we have not yet been able to verify listings on Amazon Spain, France or Germany.

⚠️ Watch out for clones. Domains like rneotech.shop and rayneoglobal.shop pose as "RayNeo Europe". The official one is eu.rayneo.com.

Three things to know:

1. Euro pricing is now official, with two figures: MSRP and a launch offer until September 20 (see above). The iO now shows as in stock in the European store.
2. RayNeo's warranty is one year. Spanish law grants three. Buying from the brand's own store, you absorb that gap. Buying on Amazon in Spain, the seller is bound by Spanish rules.
3. No customs from the EU store. The homepage of eu.rayneo.com states, verbatim, "Ships from EU warehouse (No Customs), VAT included". Its generic shipping policy — stock store boilerplate — says otherwise; the store-specific claim prevails. If a charge does land on your doorstep, tell us.

How it compares

The iO goes head to head with the Even Realities G2, $120 dearer but with a slightly wider field of view and — importantly — manufacturer-documented language support, feature by feature. RayNeo has not published its full list of 55 languages.

What we still don't know

The full language list of the iO. The GT and GT Max battery — the connection is now published (direct USB-C, DisplayPort Alt Mode), but the spec table still has no battery row. Whether the three are listed on Amazon Spain, France or Germany. And how any of it performs: everything above comes from RayNeo's launch materials, and nobody has independently tested these glasses. Claims about legibility, comfort and translation quality remain unverified.

FAQ

When do the RayNeo iO go on sale? They are on sale now — since September 4, 2026 — at eu.rayneo.com, and the iO shows as in stock (checked 9 September 2026).

How much do they cost? €549 MSRP ($499 in the US). Until 20 September 2026 there is a launch offer at €499, with the charging-case bundle at €549.

Do they have a camera? No. By design: no photos or video, but no privacy problem either.

Can you listen to music on them? No. There are no speakers, only a bone-conduction microphone.

How long does the battery last? Up to two days of typical use from 240 mAh; 18 hours of continuous recording or 6.2 hours of continuous translation.

What is the difference between GT and GT Max? Field of view (46° vs 59°), maximum virtual screen (231" vs 307") and weight (68 g vs 78 g). The rest of the hardware is shared.

Provisional verdict

The iO is the interesting one, and not because of the display — because of the weight. 33 grams with two-day battery and real-time translation did not exist under €550 until now. The missing speakers are a genuine limitation, not a detail.

The GT and GT Max, at €369 and €489 MSRP (€339 and €459 until September 20), land squarely against the €599 XREAL One Pro.

Updated September 4 with official pricing, real availability in the EU store, the GT connection details and the customs policy. The iO’s full language list remains unpublished.

Last updated: September 9, 2026. Sources: launch press release (Sept 4), RayNeo European store, announcement press release (Aug), Engadget, Next Reality, RayNeo EU shipping policy.