Cybersight was exhibiting off their Zenith biking glasses at CES 2026, and it got here with the same old buzzwords. What SemiAccurate discovered fascinating is what they didn’t do quite than what they did do.
Non-regulars at SemiAccurate won’t understand it however I’m an enormous biker, primarily as a result of I take pleasure in it. I don’t use all the most recent devices, gear, and glossy bits as a result of most of them are nugatory. I simply have a great bike and mount my telephone on the handlebars. The one different electronics I exploit is my watch, a Garmin Fenix 6 which is among the greatest {hardware} I’ve ever used coupled to abysmally terrible software program, unhealthy sufficient to have prevented me from upgrading for years. In any case I don’t purchase the most recent shiny bits, simply what I would like. Why am I saying this in an article about Cybersight and their Zenith glasses?
The Zenith glasses and equipment
That’s fairly simple to clarify, they’re minimalist gadgets. Monochrome show, information fields solely, and their large promotional level was gentle weight. For some bikers, weight is the large subject, and the identical goes for VR/AR/HMDs, each gram can grow to be a difficulty after a protracted experience or hours of use. The factor that attracted me to the Zenith glasses was that they had been gentle, 39g claimed, and did solely what you want them to do, primarily be a HUD. Primary information is displayed in monochrome, large numbers and letters, and it’s pretty adjustable.
Zenith app customization display
The fields you’ll be able to see on the telephone above could be moved round with a drag, and you’ll add on or take off fields you don’t care about. It’s minimalist and that could be a good factor. Cybersight touts an AI evaluation function however, effectively, discover me something at CES of late that doesn’t have AI one thing. Formally these AI brokers are for teaching, biometric alerts, and the like but when historical past is any instance they get turned off after the primary use.
That brings me to the purpose of how effectively the Zenith glasses work. I had minimal time with them at Showstoppers earlier than CES 2026 however they did appear to work effectively. They had been suitable with my regular glasses, one thing many VR/AR gadgets fail at, had been gentle sufficient to not be annoying. The information displayed was clear and huge, adjustable for dimension, and could possibly be positioned simply on the app. There’s additionally a distant the clips onto our handlebars to show issues on and off, useful for busy areas.
Zenith lacks some issues that the majority others tout. It has a full coloration depth of 1-bit, inexperienced, and that’s good. Extra sucks battery and compensating provides weight. It doesn’t have audio system which aren’t wanted for any such work anyway. It doesn’t do textual content messages, have a paperclip avatar, or every other cutesy frivolity, simply the fundamentals and from what I’ve seen, does them fairly effectively.
Notice: Temp is in F, wind is in MPH, and rain doesn’t fall at these temps, snow does
Battery life is a claimed 8 hours, adequate for many rides, the lenses out there are UV filtering, and it’s IP54 rated. Mainly Zenith does what it ought to and nothing extra. About the one quibble we now have with the glasses are the working temp vary, -10C to +55C, the highest not being the difficulty however the backside… have a look at the pic above from one in all my latest rides, a humanitarian mission to Costco to get a hotdog for lunch. That ~1C delta would in all probability have been OK however why danger it?
If you would like a Zenith, they’re on sale now for $399 as of this writing. To some these glasses are function free however to anybody critical about biking, they do what they want and no extra. That avoids the burden, dimension, and price dying spiral of function creep, one thing that not often provides any helpful performance. With no full overview we gained’t suggest them outright, however will say they’re value consideration primarily based on the time we had with them. If solely extra firms understood what Cybersight does, the world may be a greater place.S|A
