Humbl Smart Glasses Debut in India, Powered by On-Device AI

By siliconindia  |  Friday, 11 July 2025, 12:27 IST

Humbl Smart Glasses Debut in India, Powered by On-Device AI
  • QWR unveils Humbl, India’s first AI smart glasses designed for creators and professionals, enabling POV capture, voice navigation, meeting summaries, and more.
  • Voice-first, screen-free wearable supports multiple Indian languages, offering contextual awareness and hands-free utility with the prompt 'Hey Humbl'.
  • Consumer launch in Q4 2025, with QWR planning AI audio glasses and HUD wearables, aiming to scale manufacturing under India’s PLI scheme.

QWR (Question What's Real), India's top deep-tech XR hardware venture, today unveiled the launch of Humbl- India's first AI glasses. Humbl is a specially designed interface for thinkers, doers and creators, providing  POV capture, reminders, navigation or meeting summaries, among other capabilities. With more than a decade of head-mounted computing expertise, QWR introduces Humbl not as a rookie bet but as a daring jump ahead of India's consumer hardware and headworn technology ecosystem.

By coupling AI with vision and voice, the glasses are designed to be an omnipresent assistant who is constantly aware of what is happening around them and seamlessly weaving the user's daily routine. It provides smart answers in various Indian languages and dialects, a feature much needed in making wearables accessible for a linguistically diverse country. Made without a screen, Humbl is turned on by an easy voice prompt—"Hey Humbl"—to record POV content, summarize discussions, get directions, listen to music or live translation, and create hands-free reminders. With one aim: utility, discretion, and context-awareness.

We take pride in bringing India's first AI smart glasses. The moniker Humbl is reflective of QWR's founding philosophy, our strong belief that technology, much like an exemplary guide, is designed to make stronger, not weaker." said Suraj Aiar, Founder & CEO of QWR.

“What excites us most is the potential for Indian developers to shape what comes next. With built-in AI, contextual awareness and a voice-first interface, it opens up space for entirely new kinds of applications. From productivity to accessibility, we’re eager to see how this technology is extended, adapted, and reimagined by the developer community”. He added further.

Deliveries of Humbl are to start in the fourth quarter of 2025, with the public launch to be declared later this month. Over the next few months, QWR's consumer wider roadmap is AI audio glasses and future HUD-supported wearables. With a mission to join schemes such as PLI, QWR is also scaling up its advanced manufacturing setup in order to address export demand and propel India's rise as a serious global hardware innovation player.

Internationally, smart eyewear business is expected to hit 30 million units by 2030. In India, the smart eyewear market reached USD 87.9 million by 2024 and is expected to compound at more than 30% a year up to 2033. While international players such as Meta Rayban with Essilor Luxottica, Google with Gentle Monster coming in the international market, there is a huge market to be grabbed through contextual localization & attention to developer and early adopter groups before targeting large consumer segments.