Chinese language electronics model TCL has launched a pair of augmented-reality glasses at CES 2023 known as RayNeo X2, with options together with language translation and GPS navigation.
Unveiled final week, the RayNeo X2 sensible glasses use AR to overlay a wearer’s visual field with several types of digital info.
In addition to accessing navigation and translation instruments, they assist you to obtain name and message alerts, take pictures or play music utilizing a heads-up digital interface, relatively than a tool display screen.
“New frontier of AR glasses”
The glasses work by projecting a micro-LED show in entrance of each eyes. The show expertise is embedded within the frames relatively than the lenses, so these with restricted imaginative and prescient can add their very own prescription lenses with out impacting the performance.
TCL claims that, not like different AR glasses, they’re “the world’s first” to function a binocular, full-colour micro-LED optical-waveguide show.
This show options excessive ranges of distinction and brightness, so is seen each indoors and open air, and is positioned near centre to keep away from extreme eye motion or eye pressure.
“RayNeo X2 is the brand new frontier of AR glasses, and we’re simply getting began,” stated Howie Li, CEO of TCL RayNeo.
“The expertise RayNeo has developed will set the bar for future improvements in wearable AR, as there is no such thing as a compromise in prime expertise, type or ease of use.”
Interactive AR options
The glasses function chunky black frames, with the digital camera slotted into the bridge, and a microphone and audio system embedded throughout the stems.
Every of the interactive options has been designed to supply an expertise that would not be potential with a smartwatch or smartphone.
The interpretation device can interpret a number of languages in real-time and show the translated textual content as subtitles.
The GPS navigation system works by combining simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) – the identical device utilized by autonomous autos – with gesture recognition. In addition to giving instructions, it could additionally spotlight notable landmarks and beneficial places.
Music playback integrates a “whisper mode” that minimises sound leakage, so you’ll be able to take pleasure in non-public listening with out carrying headphones.
In the meantime, the hands-free digital camera makes it potential to seize picture and video content material at eye-level view, with options together with picture stabilisation to cut back blurring and an automated evening mode.
TCL is inviting builders to design different options, to develop the performance additional.
“With the rollout of TCL RayNeo X2, we search to construct a vibrant, complete AR ecosystem to offer our customers with wealthy content material and compelling companies,” stated Li.
“These would come with a sequence of unique AR video games developed by our workforce.”
Avoiding destiny of Google Glass
Sensible glasses first entered the mainstream almost a decade in the past, when Google launched its ill-fated Google Glass specs.
The product was finally taken off the market following points with the design performance and battery life, and a public backlash that noticed one wearer bodily attacked.
Whereas manufacturers have been cautious of repeating the identical mistake, advances in AR expertise imply that sensible glasses are once more gaining recognition. Different current launches embody the Nreal Air and Viture One XR Glasses.
Not like its opponents, TCL’s AR glasses are geared up with Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip, which permit them to attach with a smartphone.
The product is because of be out there for builders within the spring, with the date of public launch but to be introduced.
Different launches at this 12 months’s CES, the world’s greatest tech occasion, embody an accessible-for-all PlayStation controller and Sony’s first automotive.
