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Jorjin Tech Joins the Smart Glasses Are the Future Debate
December 15, 2019
Add Tom Liang, chairman for both Taiwan-based smart glasses designer Jorjin Technologies and Taiwan Smart Glasses Industry Association to the list of dreamers that envision smart glasses enabled by AR/MR technologies replacing smartphones, beginning 2023. Liang estimates that the global augmented reality (AR) market's scale to double or even triple on year in 2019 and will grow larger in 2020 with 5G's commercialization, not a very expansive goal since shipments in 2018 were ~300K according to IDC. Jorjin is the designer of Epson's recently released AR smart glasses that can be paired with a smartphone for multimedia playback functionalities. Jorjin has cooperated with telecom carrier Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) to sell the smart glasses in Taiwan and partnered with telecom carrier China Mobile to distribute the wearable device to the local consumer market. The smart glasses are priced at around NT$15,600 (US$507). Liang expects demand for smart glasses to pick up dramatically in the next couple of years and white-box smart glasses adopting camera lens and featuring panorama image functionality are expected to carry price tags of only around US$500. Qualcomm recently unveiled its Snapdragon XR2 platform that supports extended reality (XR) technologies and the platform will have a good chance to become the mainstream system for the next-generation mobile devices and drive up demand for smart glasses. The Snapdragon XR2 offers performance improvements compared to the company's existing premium-tier XR platform, delivering two times the CPU and GPU performance, four times more video bandwidth, six times higher resolution and 11 times AI improvement. The chip supports seven concurrent cameras and a dedicated computer vision processor. Additionally, this is the first XR platform to enable low latency camera pass-through to enhance mixed reality (MR) experience, which allows users to see, interact and create a hybrid of the virtual and real world while wearing a VR device.
Founded in 1997, Jorjin began as a manufacturer of SoM(system-on-modules) and SiP(system-in-package)products, eventually to become the largest supplier in the global market. As a logical next step, given the unstoppable trend of wearables and IIoT concepts in the near future, Jorjin has put its experience accumulated over 20 years regarding wireless, central processing, imagery and sensory equipment behind this wave, to provide smart glasses and IIoT solutions.
December 15, 2019
Add Tom Liang, chairman for both Taiwan-based smart glasses designer Jorjin Technologies and Taiwan Smart Glasses Industry Association to the list of dreamers that envision smart glasses enabled by AR/MR technologies replacing smartphones, beginning 2023. Liang estimates that the global augmented reality (AR) market's scale to double or even triple on year in 2019 and will grow larger in 2020 with 5G's commercialization, not a very expansive goal since shipments in 2018 were ~300K according to IDC. Jorjin is the designer of Epson's recently released AR smart glasses that can be paired with a smartphone for multimedia playback functionalities. Jorjin has cooperated with telecom carrier Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) to sell the smart glasses in Taiwan and partnered with telecom carrier China Mobile to distribute the wearable device to the local consumer market. The smart glasses are priced at around NT$15,600 (US$507). Liang expects demand for smart glasses to pick up dramatically in the next couple of years and white-box smart glasses adopting camera lens and featuring panorama image functionality are expected to carry price tags of only around US$500. Qualcomm recently unveiled its Snapdragon XR2 platform that supports extended reality (XR) technologies and the platform will have a good chance to become the mainstream system for the next-generation mobile devices and drive up demand for smart glasses. The Snapdragon XR2 offers performance improvements compared to the company's existing premium-tier XR platform, delivering two times the CPU and GPU performance, four times more video bandwidth, six times higher resolution and 11 times AI improvement. The chip supports seven concurrent cameras and a dedicated computer vision processor. Additionally, this is the first XR platform to enable low latency camera pass-through to enhance mixed reality (MR) experience, which allows users to see, interact and create a hybrid of the virtual and real world while wearing a VR device.
Founded in 1997, Jorjin began as a manufacturer of SoM(system-on-modules) and SiP(system-in-package)products, eventually to become the largest supplier in the global market. As a logical next step, given the unstoppable trend of wearables and IIoT concepts in the near future, Jorjin has put its experience accumulated over 20 years regarding wireless, central processing, imagery and sensory equipment behind this wave, to provide smart glasses and IIoT solutions.
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