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It was Wednesday night and I was sick as a dog with some mysterious virus. Waves of nausea and brain fogging left me too weak to sit up. I was on my back for the night — and that gave me the perfect opportunity to test my fancy new AR glasses. Just a few nights before, I’d gotten a pair of Lenovo’s Legion Glasses. I got the shades alongside my Legion Go and figured I’d use them to enjoy some gaming on a giant 1080p display right in front of my eyes. Since I couldn’t really get out of bed, I decided to strap them on…

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…

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a wearable with batlike sonar that could improve upper-body tracking in virtual reality and other applications. The Cornell team fitted a generic pair of eyeglasses with a tiny sonar system, demonstrating how acoustic signals can be used instead of cameras to capture the body’s movement.Not only would sonar be more efficient in terms of battery consumption, the team told the Cornell Chronicle, but it would also do away with the privacy risks that come with headsets’…

JioGlass — the company's mixed reality headset that supports both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) content — was showcased at the recently concluded India Mobile Congress 2023. The smart glasses are expected to launch in India soon and were previously announced by the telecom giant at its annual general meeting (AGM) in 2020. Just like other AR glasses, JioGlass is capable of displaying content on a large 'virtual screen'. Users can also easily switch between AR and VR modes on the…

Using X-rays (green in the picture), researchers have created 3D cinema-like effects on the kagome metal TbV6Sn6. This way, they have succeeded in tracking down the behavior of electrons (blue and yellow in the picture) and have taken a step forward in the understanding of quantum materials. Credit: Jörg Bandmann/ct.qmat)An international team of scientists has succeeded in experimentally confirming a characteristic of topological materials.Scientists from around the globe have experimentally confirmed a unique…

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…

Bebe Rexha‘s latest concert accessory might help protect her face from more flying phones. The “I’m Good” singer closed out the first leg of her Best F*n Night of My Life tour at Los Angeles’ Wiltern on Saturday evening wearing what some Instagram fans joked were “OSHA approved safety glasses.” She performed in Los Angeles weeks after a concertgoer threw a phone at the singer during her New York concert. “Wearing them safety glasses cause she ain’t playing no more!” Instagram user jyry_21 commented on KIIS-FM’s video of…

According to Insider, the decision to kill the Iris Glasses project comes after reports of internal disagreements, strategy shifts, and layoffs, as confirmed by three insiders. The project's leader, Clay Bavor, left Google in February. Google is infamously known for its previous attempts into the AR world with Google Glass. Pulled "from the rubbish bin of great consumer tech that fell flat," Glass was a brand of smart glasses launched in 2013 that flopped due to terrible wearability and user experience, high price, and…

Google is not shy when it comes to axing its projects, and the AR glasses project is going down. This was popularly known as Project Iris and it got lots of attention after it went public. Google was already shaping its future in the world of augmented reality with this project, and fans couldn’t wait to try the result of this project out. Well if you are part of those fans with high hopes for Project Iris, then you’d need to cut your expectations. Just like a ton of other Google projects, this particular one is now…

With Google Glass, the company was the major player to push augmented reality wearables into the world. After shelving that early hardware, the company moved onto new internal projects, including Iris AR glasses. These were supposed to look like a pair of ordinary glasses, with early versions reportedly resembling a product called "Focals" by North, a Canadian startup that Google acquired in 2020. Google even demoed a newer version in a video showing a real-time AR translation feature. The company has now reportedly…