Alipay+ Unveils World’s First Smart Glasses-Embedded Payment Solution

Kyle Chua
Jun 20, 2025
2 min read

Alipay+ is making it possible to pay for goods and services using your smart glasses.

The cross-border digital payments and marketing solution under Ant International announced on 19 June the launch of its new smart glasses-embedded payment solution for global e-wallets.

To demonstrate the new solution, Alipay+ collaborated with Chinese electronics manufacturer Meizu and completed the very first real-world smart glasses-embedded e-wallet payment transaction in Hong Kong. The milestone transaction was completed on the Meizu StarV Snap smart glasses via AlipayHK.

“We are grateful to work with industry leaders like Meizu to pioneer smart glasses-embedded payment solutions. By unlocking payment capabilities, smart glasses will rapidly transform into the next-gen personal device like the mobile phone," said Jiangming Yang, Chief Innovation Officer of Ant International.

Alipay+ touts that the solution’s launch enables you to easily make payments with QR scans or voice commands from your smart glasses. And transactions are made even more seamless thanks to the company’s technological innovations like AI-powered voice interface, intent recognition and voiceprint authentication.

The new solution will roll out to Alipay+ global partner e-wallets within the year, upon the integration of the upgraded tech suite for smart glasses.

Meizu’s smart glasses will be among the first to support the new solution, with Alipay+’s advanced payment SDK solutions integrated into their newest releases. The company’s glasses will be powered by industry-leading optical waveguide display technology, voice noise reduction and capture technology and camera-based code scanning technology.

The launch of the new solution is part of Alipay+’s efforts to accelerate innovations to support e-wallets’ transition into the future of seamless commerce. It also comes after Alipay debuted a smart glasses payment solution in collaboration with AR solutions provider Rokid in China

Currently, Alipay+ connects over 1.7 billion user accounts on 36 global e-wallets, national QR schemes and banking apps to 100 million merchants across more than 70 core markets.

Apart from the new smart glasses-embedded solution, Alipay+ now integrates QR-based and card payments via a global NFC solution. It also enables a full range of agentic AI features including MCP-based AI payments built on Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit, an AI-as-a-Service platform for fintech companies.

“The innovation in the payment scenario has enhanced the practicality and appeal of smart glasses and promoted the progress and development of the AR glasses industry,” said Peng Guo, General Manager of the XR Division of Meizu. “We hope this function will bring more convenient experiences to users.”

Alipay+ has announced on the launch of its new smart glasses-embedded payment solution for global e-wallets.
The digital payments solution completed the very first real-world smart glasses-embedded e-wallet payment transaction in Hong Kong in collaboration with Meizu.
The new solution's launch is expected to expand the use case of smart glasses and create new growth avenues for e-wallets and merchants.