Consumer electronics firm DreamSmart Group, owned by Chinese auto giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, will soon enable mobile payments via smart glasses, according to an executive, as the race to make eyewear powered by artificial intelligence (AI) more useful to the public heats up.

DreamSmart is working with fintech giant Ant International to allow AI smart glass users to make payments, a feature that will be made available on its StarV Air2 eyewear in the third quarter this year, according to Guo Peng, general manager of the company’s XR (extended reality) business unit.