Real-time translation
Hear them in your language.
Glasses that translate conversation both ways, out loud, while you keep eye contact. No screen held up between two faces. No subscription. From $149.
Travel
Order like you live there.
The market stall, the taxi negotiation, the menu with no photos. Their words arrive in your ear in your language; you answer in yours. The phone stays in your pocket — which is also where the 8 MP camera earns its place, catching the trip at eye level instead of through a held-up screen.
Conversation
Two people. Two languages. Nothing between you.
Translation apps make one person hold a phone at the other’s face. Glasses remove the object: open-ear speakers play the translation quietly to you while the other person keeps speaking normally, and the microphones pick up your reply. The conversation keeps the thing machines usually take from it — eye contact.
Work
The meeting where everyone’s fluent.
Suppliers, clients, a parent-teacher evening in your second language — the places where nuance matters and a phone on the table feels wrong. A 41–52 gram frame does it hands-free. We wrote an honest guide to recording & transcribing meetings — including the etiquette and the legal lines.
The number that decides it
A handful of languages isn’t translation.
The big-tech tier launched its translation with a handful of European languages. If your family, your suppliers, or your next trip live outside that list, the feature might as well not exist. OXIVUE frames translate 40+ languages on the M08 family and 139 on the M14 — both ways, through the free HeyCyan app.
Before you buy
- Translation needs a data connection — budget for roaming or a local eSIM abroad.
- There is a beat of delay; it feels like consecutive interpretation, not dubbing. What the delay really feels like.
- Language counts differ by frame — 40+ on the M08 family, 139 on the M14. Check the frame page for yours.
Pick your frame
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Questions people actually ask
How many languages do OXIVUE glasses translate?
It depends on the frame: the M08 family (M08, M02C, M08C, M08A) translates 40+ languages; the M14 covers 139 through the same free HeyCyan companion app. Translation is two-way in conversation — you hear their words in your language through open-ear audio while they keep speaking normally.
Do translation glasses need an internet connection?
Yes. Real-time translation runs through the companion app and needs a data connection, so budget for roaming or a local eSIM when you travel. There is no subscription — the connection is the only ongoing requirement.
Is the translation two-way, or do I need to pass the glasses over?
Two-way, and nobody passes anything. You wear the frame; the other person just speaks. Their words play in your language through the open-ear speakers, your reply is picked up by the microphones — the conversation keeps its eye contact, which is the entire point of putting translation in glasses instead of a phone screen.
Which OXIVUE frame is best for translation while travelling?
The M02C at $159 is the travel pick: it adds IP65 water resistance for weather and covers 40+ languages at 41 grams. If you want the widest language coverage, the M14 at $199 covers 139 languages in a wrap-around sports shield. Both carry the same 30-day return window and 2-year warranty.
Do I need a social-platform account or subscription?
No. OXIVUE frames pair with the free HeyCyan app — no social-platform account, no subscription, and your conversations aren't routed through a social network's cloud.