<h1>Smart glasses enabled for hands-free UPI Lite QR and voice payments, shifting settlement to off-core wallets</h1> A national payments network and the central bank announced that wearable smart glasses may now initiate small-value UPI Lite transactions by scanning QR codes and issuing voice commands, without a mobile phone or PIN. The rollout enables hands-free, voice-authenticated payments for everyday retail, food and transit purchases, and shifts settlement of such transactions to off-core-banking-system wallets to reduce load on banks' core systems. The move expands the payments regulatory framework into the wearable ecosystem, raising operational, authentication, data protection and fraud-mitigation considerations for banks, payment service providers and regulators.