Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind

Viture 的 Vonder 眼镜旨在绘制你的思维导图

David Jiang, cofounder and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid. His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense. 智能眼镜公司 Viture 的联合创始人兼首席执行官 David Jiang 向我讲述了他过去如何对孩子大吼大叫的经历。他 10 岁的儿子打网球。Jiang 说，在比赛期间，他习惯于在儿子打球时大喊大叫并批评他的失误。他想施加压力让儿子成功——毕竟，这就是他受到的育儿教育方式。这在当时看来合情合理。

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses. 但随后，他的智能眼镜在未经提示的情况下向他发送了一条消息。他公司最新可穿戴设备中的 AI 助手捕捉到了他的行为，意识到这种做法并无益处，并向他发送了建议，告诉他应该如何改进：停止大喊大叫，停止批评，只需陪伴在场，展现出对儿子的支持。Jiang 说，这很有效，这种被“点醒”的经历让他成为了更好的父亲，也改善了他与孩子之间的关系，这一切都要归功于他尚未发布的 Vonder AI 眼镜。

“I didn’t know this until Vonder could find my pattern,” Jiang says. “This is not only a tool that can summarize your life, but also a tool that can help yourself to be a better person.” “在 Vonder 发现我的行为模式之前，我对此一无所知，”Jiang 说，“这不仅是一个可以总结你生活的工具，更是一个能帮助你成为更好的人的工具。”

Viture, a San Francisco-based company known for its plug-in virtual display glasses, announced its first pair of spectacles with no virtual display on Tuesday. The glasses instead look remarkably like normal glasses, but aim to map out your memories, ideas, and goals and plop them on a digital vision board, all without embedded cameras. 总部位于旧金山、以插拔式虚拟显示眼镜而闻名的 Viture 公司周二宣布推出了其首款不带虚拟显示功能的眼镜。这款眼镜看起来与普通眼镜无异，但旨在绘制你的记忆、想法和目标，并将它们呈现在数字愿景板上，且全程无需内置摄像头。

Now co-headquartered in California and Beijing, Viture has made glasses like the Viture One and the Viture Beast—wearable face computers that connect via USB-C cable to a device to project its screen right before your eyes. The company’s products have primarily targeted gamers or anyone interested in big-screen entertainment. They work well for that purpose, but their chunky design means they fall short in comfort and fashion. 目前在加州和北京设有双总部的 Viture 曾推出过 Viture One 和 Viture Beast 等眼镜——这些可穿戴的面部计算机通过 USB-C 线缆连接设备，将屏幕直接投射到用户眼前。该公司的产品主要针对游戏玩家或对大屏娱乐感兴趣的人群。它们在实现这一目的方面表现出色，但笨重的设计意味着它们在舒适度和时尚感上有所欠缺。

The new glasses are a bit of a pivot. They’re called Vonder, you know, like “wonder” but with a V, and they don’t have cameras. The glasses’ arms feature mics and speakers that can play music, dictate map directions, and let the wearer make phone calls. Vonder also features a built-in AI assistant that combines the top large language models. It can trigger OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, or even DeepSeek. Based on the task’s complexity, Vonder AI will source the answer from whichever model is the quickest and most economical. 这款新眼镜是一次转型。它们被称为 Vonder（就像“wonder”一样，只是首字母换成了 V），并且没有摄像头。眼镜腿配备了麦克风和扬声器，可以播放音乐、播报地图导航并允许佩戴者拨打电话。Vonder 还内置了一个结合了顶级大语言模型的 AI 助手。它可以调用 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT、Anthropic 的 Claude、Google 的 Gemini 甚至 DeepSeek。根据任务的复杂程度，Vonder AI 会选择最快捷、最经济的模型来提供答案。

They cost $299, can be fitted with prescriptions, come in a variety of frame shapes and colors, and can have clear, transition, or shaded sunglass lenses. Preorders launch September 28, and they’ll ship in November. 它们的售价为 299 美元，可以配制近视镜片，提供多种镜框形状和颜色，并可选择透明镜片、变色镜片或遮阳墨镜镜片。预购将于 9 月 28 日开启，并于 11 月发货。

The company, like other smart-glass brands Xreal and Even Realities, is trying to make it very clear that it is not Meta, distancing itself from the ire Meta’s Ray-Bans have generated for their privacy-encroaching features. Viture says above all else, it wants its smart glasses to be a good pair of glasses. Ones that operate privately—the kind of frames people will willingly wear without worrying about being labeled a creep. 与 Xreal 和 Even Realities 等其他智能眼镜品牌一样，该公司正试图明确表示它不是 Meta，从而与 Meta 的 Ray-Ban 眼镜因侵犯隐私功能而引发的愤怒保持距离。Viture 表示，最重要的是，它希望其智能眼镜首先是一副好眼镜。一副能够私密运行的眼镜——一种人们愿意佩戴，而不必担心被贴上“怪胎”标签的镜框。

A blue indicator light turns on when the glasses are recording audio. It’s a small dot on the arms of the glasses, less central and less immediately noticeable than the indicator light on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. 当眼镜正在录音时，一个蓝色指示灯会亮起。这是眼镜腿上的一个小点，比 Ray-Ban Meta 眼镜上的指示灯位置更隐蔽，也不那么显眼。

But Viture stands apart because most of the time, the glasses can collect data only when the wearer is speaking. You can trigger a meeting mode, and it will use on-board microphones to record the environment around you, but the rest of the time, they use bone-conduction sensors in the frames that can passively pick up the audio vibrations of the person wearing them all day long. (The Vonder glasses get about 16 hours of battery life.) 但 Viture 的独特之处在于，大多数情况下，眼镜只有在佩戴者说话时才会收集数据。你可以开启会议模式，它会利用内置麦克风记录周围环境，但在其他时间，它们会使用镜框中的骨传导传感器，被动地捕捉佩戴者全天的语音振动。（Vonder 眼镜的续航时间约为 16 小时。）

Once it collects information about your day and what you talk about, the assistant generates a personal memory graph that tracks your memories—things like what coffee shops you’ve been to, what sports you play, or whatever else you choose to confide in the glasses. As long as you’re talking about something, the glasses will pick that up and try to interpret the context to make a broader picture of what you’re up to. In the app, it displays all those connections in a big web graphic. 一旦收集了关于你一天行程和谈话内容的信息，助手就会生成一个个人记忆图谱，追踪你的记忆——比如你去过哪些咖啡店、你参加什么运动，或者任何你选择向眼镜倾诉的内容。只要你在谈论某事，眼镜就会捕捉到它，并尝试解读语境，从而勾勒出你正在做的事情的更广阔图景。在应用程序中，它会以一个巨大的网状图形显示所有这些关联。

In a demo of how the glasses work, Jiang showed that the Vonder glasses he’s wearing have kept tabs on his life over the past three months. He can ask it where to find coffee shops based on his caffeine preferences or have it help figure out why he’s felt so stressed lately. The tech is also preemptive, pulling up topics he’s been thinking about, like help with hiring decisions he’s been mulling over and a plan for announcing his new smart glasses a day before Meta Connect. It also pulled up a dossier on me that it presented to him the morning he came to visit. It clearly knew who I was, what I write about, and had suggested some topics for him to prepare for. 在演示眼镜工作原理时，Jiang 展示了他佩戴的 Vonder 眼镜如何记录了他过去三个月的生活。他可以询问眼镜根据他的咖啡因偏好去哪里找咖啡店，或者让它帮忙分析为什么他最近感到压力很大。这项技术还具有预见性，会调出他一直在思考的话题，比如协助他斟酌招聘决策，以及在 Meta Connect 前一天发布新智能眼镜的计划。它甚至调出了关于我的档案，并在他来访的当天早上呈现给他。它显然知道我是谁、我写什么，并为他建议了一些准备话题。

“We just want to mimic the way your brain works,” Jiang says. “This is not a transcript or a summary. This is just how your memory organizes in your brain, even better than your memory.” “我们只是想模仿大脑的工作方式，”Jiang 说，“这不是一份文字记录或摘要。这就是你的记忆在大脑中组织的方式，甚至比你自己的记忆还要好。”

The Vonder glasses raise a question of how self-indulgent the information you’re collecting across your day is. It only records one perspective, after all—yours. That means you have to be comfortable sharing your thoughts with the glasses if you want them stored in the memory graph or have conversations with others all day long. Vonder 眼镜引发了一个问题：你全天收集的信息在多大程度上是自我沉溺的？毕竟，它只记录了一个视角——你自己的视角。这意味着如果你想将想法存储在记忆图谱中，或者整天与他人交谈，你就必须乐于与眼镜分享你的想法。

I ask Jiang about this: how you make sure the information in your mind web considers other factors than your own perspective. Jiang says if he wants something to stick, he tends to repeat what someone else said. 我问 Jiang 关于这一点：你如何确保思维网中的信息考虑到了你自身视角之外的其他因素？Jiang 说，如果他想记住某件事，他倾向于重复别人说过的话。

“In a conversation, a human tends to repeat because a conversation is turn by turn—if you have a question, I follow up your question and then AI knows what the question is,” Jiang says, “Even though there’s a missing part, it’s not 50 percent missing. It’s maybe only 10 percent or 15 percent.” “在对话中，人类倾向于重复，因为对话是轮流进行的——如果你有一个问题，我跟进你的问题，然后 AI 就知道问题是什么，”Jiang 说，“即使有缺失的部分，也不会缺失 50%。可能只有 10% 或 15%。”

I ask what he’d do if we were arguing right now. If I… 我问他，如果我们现在正在争吵，他会怎么做。如果我……