AR glasses

Xreal, TCL, and Rokid smart glasses displayed together. Alan Truly / Digital Trends Conceptually, smart glasses with displays are great. You get a giant screen that hovers in the center of your view and personal stereo sound in a pair of glasses you can fold and put in your pocket. In practice, there have been some issues preventing this technology from going mainstream. Most notably, comfort has been a problem. I tried next-gen smart glasses from industry leaders Xreal, Rokid, and TCL to find out if these new…

AR glasses are still a pipe dream. Early “smart” glasses like Amazon’s Echo Frames, the Ray-Ban Facebook Stories glasses, and Snap Spectacles hardly whet my appetite to experience the future of AR. The most interesting models, like the Xreal Air, Lenovo Glasses T1, and TCL NxtWear Air, simulate a big-screen TV to show a feed from a cable connected to a laptop or smartphone. There are even experiments like the Viture One XR that tried to sell the concept for cloud gaming. But none of these are true AR glasses. I…

Apple’s Vision Pro headset has got the entire tech world talking, but it’s still unclear exactly how it will work with the prescription lenses used by spectacle wearers around the world. Get it right and it could be a beautifully seamless experience — get it wrong and Apple risks alienating potentially millions of users. It’s a crucial obstacle to overcome. Apple has said it will let you add special prescription lenses to the Vision Pro, but pricing is uncertain, and they could cost as much as $600 a pop according to…

Spacetop’s virtual screens in use at a coffee shop. Sightful One of the critical factors when buying a new laptop is display size. Do you want a chunky 17-inch model or can you get by with a small and light 13-inch screen? Display size may no longer be relevant in the age of augmented reality, and Spacetop leads the way with the world’s first AR laptop. Sightful, the company behind Spacetop, points out screen privacy is no longer an issue when working on its 100-inch virtual display. If you take your laptop to the…

Samsung is working on 'Galaxy Ring' for health tracking and augmented reality (AR)-powered 'Galaxy Glasses', the media reported.The tech giant has filed for two new trademark applications, one for a Galaxy Ring and the other for a pair of Galaxy Glasses, reports Gizmochina.The upcoming glasses might be similar to the rumoured Apple AR/virtual reality (VR) headset.The company was also granted the Galaxy Ring trademark by Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS) last week.The Galaxy Ring…

The company had originally hoped to release the AR glasses after the debut of its mixed-reality headset, which combines both AR and virtual reality, but that part of the plan is now on hold. Apple Inc. is still planning to unveil its first mixed-reality headset this year, but an even more important follow-up product — lightweight augmented-reality glasses — has been postponed due to technical challenges.The company had originally hoped to release the AR glasses after the debut of its mixed-reality headset, which…

Snap Spectacles 3 are the company's latest AR glasses, and unlike earlier iterations, they're officially available in India. These smart glasses come with cameras on board to let you take photos or videos of what you're looking at, allowing you to create some interesting first person content. We found out what it's like to use them first hand.At Snap's annual partner summit last month, the company claimed Snapchat grew 120 percent in India in 2019, in terms of daily active users. If you've been a Snapchat user over the…

Snap Spectacles 3 are the company's latest AR glasses, and unlike earlier iterations, they're officially available in India. These smart glasses come with cameras on board to let you take photos or videos of what you're looking at, allowing you to create some interesting first person content. We found out what it's like to use them first hand.At Snap's annual partner summit last month, the company claimed Snapchat grew 120 percent in India in 2019, in terms of daily active users. If you've been a Snapchat user over the…

Image Source : META Meta Meta, formerly Facebook, has reportedly decided to not sell the first version of its full-fledged AR glasses, codenamed Orion, and will instead distribute them to developers. A person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the tech giant has decided to distribute them to developers initially so they can build software experiences for the device and future versions. The company is also shelving plans to release a smartwatch with a detachable display and two cameras in favor of a design…