What happened in China A Chinese AR glasses manufacturer, working with Zhipu AI, deployed a live simultaneous interpretation system at a major state-level forum — covering 54 languages, with under one second of lag, sustained across an eight-hour operating window. This was not a product demo at a trade stand. It was a working deployment at a high-stakes, multi-language event where failure is not an option. The timing is not an accident. In the third quarter of 2025, shipments across China's smart glasses market reached 623,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 62.3%. The AR/VR segment specifically shipped 169,000 units in the same period, a year-on-year increase of 29.4%. At CES 2026 in January, at least 27 Chinese companies exhibited AI smart glasses, VR, and AR products — including INMO, whose Go3 model focuses on two-way real-time translation and can simulate the user's own voice. Rokid launched its screenless AI…