# RayNeo V3

Manufacturer: [RayNeo](/companies/rayneo)  
Category: wearable

## Summary

The RayNeo V3 (from RayNeo, TCL's AR glasses subsidiary) is a camera-and-audio AI glasses product with no display, in the Ray-Ban Meta class: 39 grams, a 12-megapixel TCL co-developed camera (1080p/30fps), and 32GB of storage. It went on sale in China in January 2025 at 1,799 yuan, roughly $249. Its AI is genuine: a customized multimodal large language model via an Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen partnership, with three years of free AI updates, placing it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier. Two cap-flags: pricing is China-market CNY (the USD figure is a conversion, and it is not officially sold outside China), and the vendor's performance numbers (a 1.3-second response time and 98 percent accuracy) are RayNeo-stated, not independently verified. It is the TCL/RayNeo parallel to Xiaomi AI Glasses and Baidu's Xiaodu in the Chinese consumer wearable-AI cohort.

## Top line

> RayNeo V3 is shipping now at $245-$255 (actual sale price), no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.

## Readiness

- **Availability** (shipping-now): Shipping now.
- **Price honesty** (actual-sale-price): One price on file: $245-$255 (actual sale price).
- **Capability honesty** (no-claims): No reviewed capability claims on file for RayNeo V3.
- **Real-world use** (commercial): Maturity: commercial. No verified deployments in the registry.
- **Safety record** (no-incidents): No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.

## What it claims to do

_No reviewed capability claims on file._

## Price

- $245-$255, _actual-sale-price_ ([CTOL (RayNeo V3 / Alibaba Tongyi)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)) _as of 2025-01-10_

## Real-world use

_No verified deployments on file for RayNeo V3._

## Safety record

_No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative._

## Privacy

_No privacy practices disclosed or on file for RayNeo V3._

## Specs

- **notes**: [{"label":"Verified","value":"RayNeo (brand under Thunderbird Innovation Technology, Shenzhen; founded Oct 13 2021; TCL Electronics-backed) is the #1 global AR-glasses brand by Q3 2025 share (24%, Counterpoint); raised a $143M round Jan 2026; Alibaba integrated its Tongyi Qianwen LLM into RayNeo products and took an equity stake. The V3 led China's online AR/AI smart-glasses category in Q1 2025 (~50% share, RUNTO/CINNO); shipments in the tens of thousands. maturity=commercial (mass-market)."},{"label":"AI-substance: PRIMARY (genuine)","value":"The V3 is built around the AI assistant + first-person camera (no display); 'ask about what you see' is the core interaction, not veneer. Cloud-dependent (Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen), not on-device - recorded honestly."},{"label":"Why V3 not X3 Pro","value":"The dispatch listed the X3 Pro, but the AI-PRIMARY RayNeo product is the V3. The X3 Pro is display-first AR (microLED waveguide, $1,099-1,299; AI is a feature layered on a display device) - EXCLUDED by the AI-as-primary test, same class as Xreal."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Snapdragon AR1 chip (one source asserted it for V3; not confirmed); 98% accuracy + 1.3s response are vendor-supplied; exact unit totals beyond 'tens of thousands'."}]
- **specs**: RayNeo V3: camera + audio AI glasses, NO display. Y1,799 (~$245-255), 39g, 12MP camera (1080p/30fps, TCL co-developed), 32GB storage. Presales Jan 7 2025, on sale Jan 10 2025 (China). Customized multimodal LLM via Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen partnership; vendor-claimed 1.3s response + 98% accuracy; 3 years free AI updates.
- **formFactor**: wearable (camera + audio AI glasses; no display; Ray-Ban Meta-class)

## What's under the hood

_No brain on file for RayNeo V3._

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the RayNeo V3 actually available for purchase?

Yes, shipping now.

_Source: [RayNeo V3 AI camera glasses (Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen; no display; ~$245)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)._

### What does the RayNeo V3 cost?

RayNeo V3 costs $245-$255 one-time (actual sale price).

_Source: [CTOL (RayNeo V3 / Alibaba Tongyi)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)._

### Where is the RayNeo V3 being used?

No verified field deployments on record.

### Is the RayNeo V3 safe?

No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.

### How does the RayNeo V3 handle privacy?

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for RayNeo V3.

### Who makes the RayNeo V3?

RayNeo V3 is made by RayNeo, based in Shenzhen, China.

_Source: [RayNeo V3 AI camera glasses (Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen; no display; ~$245)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)._

## Manufacturer

- [RayNeo (https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)

## Compared to

- [Hey Pocket](/consumer/models/hey-pocket)
- [AI Pin](/consumer/models/humane-ai-pin)
- [Xiaomi AI Glasses](/consumer/models/xiaomi-ai-glasses)

## Sources

1. [RayNeo V3 AI camera glasses (Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen; no display; ~$245)](https://www.ctol.digital/news/rayneo-v3-ai-camera-glasses-alibaba-tongyi/)
2. [RayNeo (Thunderbird/TCL) $143M round (Jan 2026); Shenzhen](https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-01-06/rayneo-funding/)
3. [Alibaba integrates Tongyi Qianwen into RayNeo + takes equity stake](https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/alibaba-joins-forces-rayneo-ai-glasses)
4. [RayNeo: #1 global AR-glasses share Q3 2025 (Counterpoint); V3 led China AI-glasses Q1 2025](https://www.rayneo.com/)

_Canonical: https://deploy.report/models/rayneo-v3_