Alipay and Rokid open ‘look-and-pay’ smart glasses payments to developers via MCP integration

Summary

Alipay (Ant Group) and AR/AI glasses maker Rokid are opening up a smart-glasses payment capability to developers on Rokid’s Lingzhu AI development platform. The integration is built around Model Context Protocol (MCP), aiming to make payments a plug-in style capability that developers can embed inside glasses-based experiences. The “look-and-pay” demo points toward a near-future UX where eye gaze + voice can complete a transaction without pulling out a phone—convenient, but also loaded with authentication and fraud-prevention implications. Strategically, it’s another sign that agent/tool standards (like MCP) are becoming a real distribution battleground: whoever owns the tool layer can shape the app ecosystem that sits on top.