Sharge launches loomys L1 AI glasses designed for all-day wear

At a launch in Wuhan, Sharge Technology put its new glasses on the face of a problem: its previous A1 AI glasses sold more than 50,000 units in 24 hours of domestic pre-orders, yet delivery brought Bluetooth, image-tuning, battery and software failures. The company halted production of tens of thousands of units and refunded early buyers. On August 18, founder and CEO Zhang Bo introduced the loomys L1, starting at 2,699 yuan, as a second attempt to make AI glasses replace everyday eyewear rather than sit on the face for a few hours.

The hardware is built around long wear. Sharge uses an aviation-grade titanium front frame with acetate plates, while a proprietary spiral hinge hides the wiring and supports frame-width adjustment. The camera, battery and motherboard sit in the temples, shifting the center of gravity behind the ears. The lightest model weighs 43 grams, and Sharge says nose pressure is reduced by 50%. A magnetic lens cover addresses privacy; the company says raw audio and images will not be retained in the cloud long-term, with only organized text kept.

The software is LoomOS, an active-memory system rather than a passive wake-up mode. It records conversations, calls and sound during music or voice chats, then combines those recordings with phone messages to create an AI diary containing summaries of people met and to-dos. AI Live Photo adds notes to pictures. A voice interface connects the glasses to Feishu for messaging, summaries and scheduling, and to Tencent WorkBuddy for email.

The mechanism has a practical limit: memory consumes power. Sharge says the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4nm-class W5100 processor uses 38% less power than the AR1 approach in AI-memory mode. The battery system provides about 12 hours with active AI memory and 40 hours overall, using 258mAh cells and a five-second quick-swap design. Those are manufacturer figures, and no independent real-world test is cited here.

So what changes for users? People who wear prescription glasses for more than 16 hours a day get a product designed around that routine, with meeting notes and tasks generated from recordings and phone messages. The near-term catch is availability: pre-orders exceeded 25,000 units, but large-scale delivery is expected only by the end of 2026. The real test is whether this second design survives delivery and daily use better than the A1.