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OPPO Is Jumping On the Smart Glasses Bandwagon
OPPO announced at its OPPO Inno Day conference that it plans to release its own smart glasses next year. The glasses certainly look like a clunky pair of sunglasses. OPPO says the glasses will feature time-of-flight (ToF) sensors and utilize simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms that gauge and measure distances relative to the person wearing the device. In a tweet, OPPO highlighted something called a ‘birdbath’ optical solution. “Through increased sharpness, brightness, and a semi-open rear cavity acoustic design” the glasses will purportedly be able to replicate a home theater experience akin to watching a 90-inch screen from three meters away and will support hand gestures. Henry Tang, OPPO’s “chief 5G scientist,” further clarified that OPPO’s smart glasses would also feature binocular fisheye cameras and perform local mapping calculations in milliseconds. Tang also posted some videos of the glasses’ interface.
According to the Next Web, the glasses will also be able to map 21 points on your hand so users can interact with virtual objects, as well as plug into the Oppo Find X2 phone via USB-C.
These glasses are not as bulky as headsets form Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, but they’re way more conspicuous than what Google’s enterprise-focused smart glasses look like now. This year dealt a death blow to several consumer-focused smart glasses. Bose shut down its audio-only AR division, while Focals by North got killed by Google once it acquired the parent company. Magic Leap hasn’t had the smoothest experience navigating the pandemic either. The headset won’t appear until 2022 and the smart glasses until 2023. Facebook has also gone deep into AR, and its smart glasses—which are being developed in partnership with Ray-Ban—are expected to launch sometime in 2021.
OPPO announced at its OPPO Inno Day conference that it plans to release its own smart glasses next year. The glasses certainly look like a clunky pair of sunglasses. OPPO says the glasses will feature time-of-flight (ToF) sensors and utilize simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms that gauge and measure distances relative to the person wearing the device. In a tweet, OPPO highlighted something called a ‘birdbath’ optical solution. “Through increased sharpness, brightness, and a semi-open rear cavity acoustic design” the glasses will purportedly be able to replicate a home theater experience akin to watching a 90-inch screen from three meters away and will support hand gestures. Henry Tang, OPPO’s “chief 5G scientist,” further clarified that OPPO’s smart glasses would also feature binocular fisheye cameras and perform local mapping calculations in milliseconds. Tang also posted some videos of the glasses’ interface.
According to the Next Web, the glasses will also be able to map 21 points on your hand so users can interact with virtual objects, as well as plug into the Oppo Find X2 phone via USB-C.
These glasses are not as bulky as headsets form Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, but they’re way more conspicuous than what Google’s enterprise-focused smart glasses look like now. This year dealt a death blow to several consumer-focused smart glasses. Bose shut down its audio-only AR division, while Focals by North got killed by Google once it acquired the parent company. Magic Leap hasn’t had the smoothest experience navigating the pandemic either. The headset won’t appear until 2022 and the smart glasses until 2023. Facebook has also gone deep into AR, and its smart glasses—which are being developed in partnership with Ray-Ban—are expected to launch sometime in 2021.
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