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What Backup Controls Keep a Smart-Glasses Teleprompter on Pace?
- by NeoKnox
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Three control paths sit alongside automatic scrolling on a smart-glasses teleprompter: a fixed-speed scroll you set in advance, hand control on the frame, and a phone that stays in sync with the glasses. Set up together, they let a presenter hold, move, or hand over the script at any moment without breaking eye contact.
On RayNeo iO, the automatic layer is Smart Follow, which uses voice tracking to follow your reading pace and advance the script as you speak. Live talks rarely stay on the page, though. A joke lands and the room laughs, a question comes from the floor, a demo runs longer than planned. Each of those moments calls for a different way of moving the script, and iO has one ready for each.
Four layers of control, from automatic to hands-on
| Layer | What moves the text | Fits moments like | How you take over |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Smart Follow | Voice tracking that follows your reading pace and advances as you speak | A keynote or scripted talk read close to the page | Single-click the Smart Crown to hold the text |
| 2. Auto Scroll | A steady speed you select in advance | Timed segments, recording to camera, voiceover | Single-click to pause, rotate to reposition |
| 3. Manual Control | You, by rotating the Smart Crown | Q&A, live demos, panels, ad-libbed stretches | Already in your hand |
| 4. The phone | Teleprompter control in the RayNeo AI App, synchronized with the glasses in real time | A colleague steering from the side, or a phone on the lectern | Pass the phone to a teammate |
The first three layers are iO's three teleprompting modes, and each section of a talk runs on the one chosen for it. Two controls stay available while the script runs: a single click of the Smart Crown plays or pauses it, and rotating the crown scrolls it. Control from the phone stays synchronized with the glasses in real time.
What each layer is best at
Smart Follow suits the parts of a talk that are written word for word: an opening, a product announcement, a closing call to action. The text keeps pace with your natural speaking rhythm, so both hands stay free for gestures or a clicker.
Auto Scroll suits segments with a fixed length, such as a three-minute video take or a narrated walkthrough. The scroll speed is chosen before the segment starts, which makes the pace predictable and easy to rehearse against a timer.
Manual Control suits anything unscripted. The Smart Crown sits on the upper front of the right temple, and rotating it scrolls the text by hand. During a live demo or a question, the script simply waits on the line where you left it.
The phone suits team presentations and recorded sessions. A producer, a co-presenter, or an assistant at the side of the stage can control the teleprompter from the RayNeo AI App while the presenter keeps talking, and the glasses stay synchronized with the phone in real time.
For the basics of creating scripts and the three modes, our walkthrough of iO's captions, meeting notes and teleprompter covers the core features.
Setting up the layers before you go on
The setup fits into one rehearsal session and covers the script, the layout, and the people who will share control.
- Split the talk into one script per section. Scripts are created in the RayNeo AI App or imported from TXT, DOC, DOCX, or PDF files. Numbered titles such as "1 Opening" and "2 Demo" make the next section easy to spot in the list, and pinning the talk's scripts holds them above the Recent list.
- Pick a preset and tune the layout. Start from the Video, Voiceover, Speech, or Default preset, then adjust text size, text width, and line spacing for the room. Larger text and a narrower column help you find your place again after looking up at the audience.
- Give each section its layer. Smart Follow for the scripted opening, Auto Scroll for a timed video segment, Manual Control for the demo and Q&A. A section that mixes reading and talking off-script can be split in two, so each half runs on its own layer.
- Decide who holds the phone. For a solo talk, the phone can rest on the lectern with the next script open in preview, ready for Play on Glasses. For a team talk, it goes to whoever is running the show.
- Agree on who owns each section. With a phone operator in the room, settle in advance which sections the presenter steers with the Smart Crown and which ones the operator drives from the app. One owner per section means everyone knows who moves the text next.
- Rehearse the handovers, not just the words. Start each script the way it will start on stage, through the countdown, then practice the moves that matter most: click to hold, rotate to reposition, click to continue, and let the phone operator take a section.
Rehearsing the handover points
The words of a talk usually get plenty of rehearsal. The seams between sections get far less, and they are where a talk feels smooth or stalls. A useful run-through walks every seam on its own: the last line of one script, the move to the next one, and the first line on the new layer.
Three seams deserve the most attention. The first is the jump from a scripted opening into a live demo, where the script needs to hold still while you work. The second is the return from Q&A, where the next section needs to be ready the moment the last question ends. The third is any handover to a phone operator, where both people need the same picture of which section is live.
The operator is not reading from the lenses, so a short shared cue, such as a slide title or the last sentence of each section, tells them when their section begins.
Moving between sections on stage
With the talk split into sections, the next script opens in one of two ways. On the glasses, the Smart Crown opens Teleprompter and selects the next script from the list. From the phone, the script preview's Play on Glasses button sends it straight to the lenses, which suits a team talk where someone else queues each section.
Because the text sits on a transparent display, all of this happens while you face the room. The audience sees a presenter looking at them, not someone searching a monitor or a stack of cards.
FAQ
What happens to the script when I stop to take a question or go off-script?
A single click of the Smart Crown pauses the text on the current line. When the answer is done, rotating the crown scrolls to the line where you want to rejoin, and another click sets the script moving again. For a long Q&A, Manual Control keeps the pace entirely in your hands, with each turn of the crown scrolling the text.
Which preset fits a talk, a video, or a voiceover?
The four presets, Video, Voiceover, Speech, and Default, are named for the kind of session, so the starting point is the one whose name matches the job. From there, text size, text width, line spacing, and display depth fine-tune the page for the room and the length of your lines. A stage talk with long pauses for the audience often benefits from larger text, while a voiceover read straight through can use a denser page.
How should a long script be split?
Split it where the delivery changes: scripted to unscripted, live to recorded, one speaker to another. Each section becomes its own script, which keeps rotating to a specific line quick and lets each section run on the layer that suits it. Plain-text cue lines such as "PAUSE FOR APPLAUSE" or "SWITCH TO DEMO" survive import, so they can mark the handover points inside a section.
Ready for your next talk: RayNeo iO puts the script on a 33g pair of glasses, with voice-follow, fixed-speed, and hand control on the frame, and a phone that stays in step with all three.
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