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Vuzix is launching the first Alexa-enabled AR glasses at CES
Vuzix Blade AR Smartglasses Unveiled at CES 2018
Vuzix iWear Head Mounted Display is Available for Pre-Order
Lenovo’s Smart Glasses Are Powered by a Neck Battery
One of the main downsides of any wearable is the execrable battery life, and until scientists will provide us with sources of infinite power, we need to find solutions to keep our gadgets up and running. Lenovo thought that a battery that’s positioned around your neck should do the trick for its newly announced smart glasses.
Showcased a fortnight ago, the Lenovo smart glasses are this Chinese computing giant’s first step in the wearable tech industry. In terms of popularity, smart glasses are not as huge as smartwatches, but that doesn’t mean that manufacturers shouldn’t look for ways to make them unique. In Lenovo’s case, one of the innovations is represented by the neck battery, which adds another wearable item to the glasses. Since its capacity is larger than in the case of say Google Glass, the stand-by time should be considerably longer.
On the upside, Lenovo’s smart glasses can attached to prescription spectacles, as they don’t have a frame of their own. In terms of design though, it probably would’ve been better had they made the smart glasses a bit more discreet. The bulkiness does not translate into a heavy wearable, but it still might be a bit cumbersome to wear them.
As the operating system, these smart glasses run Android 4.0.4, which is handled quite well by the 1GHz dual-core CPU. Other than that, not much is known about the technical specs of this gadget.
Chen Xudong, Lenovo senior VP, said that “Right now there are too many kinds of devices you can develop for the Internet of Things. It’s too rich. Not one company can do it all.” The NBD platform developed by Lenovo will help the company’s partners to manufacture devices for the Internet of Things, while also providing them with funding and hardware research. Chen added that “We hope to use Lenovo’s advantages to combine with innovators. This platform can help them quickly start selling products, and create a supply chain for the market.”
M100, as Lenovo’s smart glasses developed in collaboration with Vuzix are called, should launch in August or September in China. The price of approximately $1,300 is a bit smaller than of Google Glass, but it’s still a bit steep for people looking to buy their first wearable.
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AR firm’s prototype Glass app makes you an amateur car mechanic (video)
Developer Metaio knows a thing or two about augmented reality, and building on the magic of its Audi eKurzinfo app, it's created some prototype software for Google Glass that straps a car's instruction manual to your face. Instead of relying on markers, GPS or point-cloud processing, the Glass app uses reference CAD models to identify what you're looking at and overlay directions on a 3D plane. As useful as it may be for walking you through a washer fluid refill (video after the jump), Metaio has created the app to showcase its updated AR platform that's intended to work with wearables like Epson's Moverio and the Vuzix M100, as well as Mountain View's monocle. The firm's Glass app may never progress beyond proof of concept, but those attending Metaio's annual InsideAR conference in Munich this October can look forward to a live demo.
Filed under: Peripherals, Transportation, Wearables, Mobile
Source: Metaio
Visualized: a history of augmented and virtual reality eyewear
We've seen the prototypes that led Google to Glass, but there are many devices that predate Mountain View's smart specs, and Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California was able to gather and display a historic number of such headsets this week. From Steve Mann's handmade WearComp 1 and EyeTap prototypes to Glass-like precursors from Optinvent and Vuzix, it's quite the comprehensive collection -- over thirty devices in all. While they may make their way into a museum some day, we're bringing pictures of them all to your screen right now. Enjoy.