The CES 2024 exhibition witnessed competition between companies to announce their smart glasses, including Sony, which announced glasses aimed at competing with Apple’s Vision Pro glasses, but the Japanese company targets the business sector and professionals.
The term Spatial Computing was clearly present in the new edition of the Consumer Electronics Show this year in Las Vegas, and that term came to light during Apple’s Developers Conference last year, WWDC 2023, when it unveiled its smart glasses for the first time, Vision Pro, and classified them as ” “Directional computer” on the basis that it presents a digital interface that moves in front of the user’s eyes wherever he goes, so the interface appears in the form of a digital layer over the details of the real world in front of the user’s eyes.
Sony glasses
“Company focused”SonyDuring the presentation of a demo model of its smart glasses, its audience will not be the end user, as is the case with its PlayStation VR gaming glasses. The experimental model is aimed at the professional sector who work in the field of designing and editing 3D models of digital elements.
The new glasses will work with the latest Qualcomm processor for the Snapdragon To divide the processing between the glasses and the computer to which the glasses can be connected, to make the processing more efficient and the experience smoother and more streamlined in presentation, according to the company’s statement.
The anticipated “Sony” glasses will come to provide the user with mixed reality experiences, as is the case with Apple’s “Vision Pro” glasses, which will arrive on the market next month, where the wearer can enjoy interacting with applications and digital elements in the form of a digital layer that appears floating above the real world. Before his eyes.
Sony aroused the public’s interest by presenting two ways to interact with the digital world inside its new glasses, one of which is represented by the image of a smart ring, while the second is a hand controller.
The company has provided its new glasses with a set of external sensors that photograph scenes in the real world in front of the wearer, so that he can follow what is happening around him, without the need to take off the glasses. However, it also designed the glasses to make it easy to raise the screen of the glasses from the user’s eyes to the top. Without taking it off completely.
The glasses are scheduled to be launched at the end of this year, but the Japanese company has not announced their expected price.
XReal Air 2 Ultra glasses
XReal also introduced a new version of its Air 2 smart glasses family, which is the “Ultra” version, which the company equipped with two 3D camera sensors on both sides of the glasses, as they help the glasses perceive the real world, as well as adding digital elements and virtual experiences to what the eye sees. The user is more realistic, in mixed reality experiences.
The company, which recently changed its name from Nreal to grams for the Air 2 Pro version.
The 3D imaging cameras, as well as the advanced processing unit in the glasses, supported their ability to perceive the world through superior computer vision capabilities, making the X-Real Air 2 Ultra glasses a direct competitor to the Apple “Vision Pro” glasses and the “Quest 3” Meta glasses. .
The company also provided its new glasses with a 52-degree field of vision and HD display resolution, along with a refresh rate of 120 frames per second, and 500 light points in terms of screen brightness.
The new glasses are compatible with Mac and Windows computers, Android phones, and iPhone 15, and are currently available for pre-orders at a price of $700, and will reach the market by next March.
RayNeo X2 Lite sunglasses
Company revealed TCL About a new, improved version of its RayNeo
The company added various updates with the new version by focusing on providing the advantages of augmented reality (AR), by running the new glasses with a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen1 processor, which allows the user advanced augmented reality features, which are showing a digital interface in front of the eyes in a 30-degree field of vision. The user can make calls, receive notifications, and obtain visual directions for routes and navigation.
All of this appears inside the glasses’ lenses, using two projectors, each measuring 1 centimeter, installed inside the glass structure of each lens.
In its official statement, the company emphasized that its new glasses provide a mixed reality experience that is comparable to the quality of the experience provided by Apple’s “Vision Pro” glasses, and even criticized the latter in terms of restricting its user’s movement while wearing it.
The new glasses come equipped with lenses made with microLED technology with ultra-precise color display, with the ability to display 3D digital content, with a brightness of 1,500 light points, and a display resolution of 640*480 pixels for each eye.
The company provided its glasses with an internal memory of up to 32 GB, a random memory of 4 GB, and a 12-megapixel camera with the ability to record videos of up to 1080p, at a rate of 30 frames per second.
The glasses are also equipped with a number of communications technologies, such as Bluetooth 5.3 and WiFi 6E, in addition to sensors that collect data about the user’s surroundings and movement, such as acceleration sensors, directional compass, and compass, as well as a magnetic energy sensor, in addition to 3 microphones and two speakers.
The glasses also come with a smart assistant in the form of a 3D digital avatar, or just a voice assistant, that uses Multi-Modal LLM technology, where it can deal with questions, respond by voice or writing, and provide notifications of incoming calls, messages, and calendar appointments.
Users can slide their finger across the frame to take photos or videos, record videos hands-free, and use their personal Glasspedia to identify objects that appear before their eyes.
The glasses also support simultaneous translation of languages, whether through translating texts written on signs or printed texts, or translating spoken speech and displaying it in the form of explanatory texts (subtitles).
TCL has confirmed that the new glasses will be on the market by the third quarter of this year, but has not yet revealed their price.
