Solos launches $79 privacy kit and camera-less AirGo A6 glasses

Smart glasses have a social problem that no amount of AI features can fix, and Solos is now selling accessories that basically admit it. The company is shipping a $79 'privacy kit' for its AirGo V2 smart glasses, which Gizmodo reports officially launch at $299. The kit swaps in a transparent temple, called the ClearView Temple, so bystanders can see into the sides of the frame and confirm there are no electronics hidden inside. It also adds a clip-on privacy shield that physically blocks the built-in camera, plus an attachable polarized lens for sunlight.

Alongside the kit, Solos is introducing a camera-less variant called the AirGo A6, described as lighter than the camera-equipped V2 and pitched at situations where a camera on your face is 'frowned upon or just outright not allowed.' Pricing and availability are TBD. That is the more telling move. Rather than argue that recording concerns are overblown, Solos is offering both hardware you can wear into camera-hostile venues and modifications you can bolt onto the camera model when the room does not want one.

The commercial logic is straightforward once you list the no-go zones. According to the Gizmodo write-up, smart glasses face bans in cruise ships, courts, standardized testing, and professional sports events. If a $299 wearable cannot go with you into the SAT room, a jury box, or a cruise deck, its usable hours shrink by however long you spend in places that turn you away. A $79 accessory that lets you keep the same frames outside those environments is a cheaper answer than owning a second pair.

The honest caveat is how thin the reporting is. There is no independent test of whether the clip-on shield actually reads as 'camera off' to a nervous bystander, no ship date or price for the A6, and no on-the-record comment from Solos on how it plans to sell a 'trust us, no camera' story to a public that has already learned to distrust the category. Take the specifics as reported, not settled.

Where this points is that the next round of smart-glasses competition will be as much about social-signaling design as it is about on-device AI. A camera-less SKU and a visible privacy kit sound like boring accessories; if venues and wearers actually accept them, they turn into a real strategic wedge.