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We bought to see the Xiaomi Wi-fi AR Glass Discovery Version first hand, though the product is a few methods off from commercialization. Xiaomi wasn’t able to let members of the media strive the glasses on, nevertheless it did give Android Authority an indication of working items.
The Xiaomi AR glasses are utterly wi-fi, so customers gained’t have to tether them to a PC or smartphone. The corporate stated it labored to scale back latency between the glasses and related smartphones all the way down to underneath 50ms, which is analogous to wired connections and adequate for functions like AR gaming.
The glasses use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor (additionally discovered within the Meta’s Quest Professional) and work with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Areas platform for XR functions. Compatibility is proscribed proper now to the brand new Xiaomi 13 collection.
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The glasses themselves appear like outsized, barely inelegant, sun shades. They’re made with supplies together with a magnesium-lithium alloy and fiber carbon, which retains weight all the way down to 126g. They appeared mild sufficient in my temporary time with them, although spending extended time with them might turn into tiring.
The silver-colored physique is paired with electrochromic lenses that may go darkish to stop mild leaking in or can keep clear for AR functions.
Xiaomi claims the 58 ppd density (pixels per diploma of visible subject) of the glasses is so excessive that customers won’t be able to identify particular person pixels. The photographs are generated by a pair of microOLED show and projected in entrance of the person’s eyes by two glass prisms.
A Xiaomi consultant confirmed off an AR sport that overlaid animations on high of bodily world objects. Think about with the ability to play a tower defense-style sport on high of your kitchen desk, utilizing your cellphone as a controller.
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I used to be extra about the potential of utilizing Xiaomi’s AR glasses to work together with the corporate’s quite a few good residence merchandise. The producer supplied a few examples I discovered compelling, like with the ability to “seize” the picture from a TV display and show it as a digital show on the glasses or switching a sensible lamp on and off by making a gesture within the air. The glasses monitor the person’s hand actions, opening up many different fascinating potentialities and offering a brand new technique to work together with good objects in addition to voice and contact.
The Xiaomi Wi-fi AR Glass Discovery Version are a cool new product, however we’ll wait to see whether or not Xiaomi truly brings them to market in a significant means. The corporate is thought for the dizzying number of its ecosystem, but additionally for teasing some merchandise that by no means get delivered.
Xiaomi joins firms like TCL, Samsung, Lenovo and others within the exploration of the AR glasses product class. We haven’t seen any really compelling merchandise simply but, however that would change as quickly as this yr when Apple is predicted to introduce its personal AR product. The iPhone maker has a historical past of launching category-defining merchandise, so a profitable launch might unleash explosive progress in head-mounted computing units.
