Xiaomi has launched its smart glasses that are believed to replace smartphones. But don’t throw away your phones just yet as they’ll release is likely to take some time. The Chinese tech giant showcased the high-tech specs in a small video.
Weighing around 51 grams and packing 497 separate components, Xiaomi’s Android-powered smart glasses can display texts and notifications, make phone calls, capture photos, and translate text by overlaying the required information onto a 0.13-inch MicroLED display.
Is it too early to get excited?
The glasses are designed in a way that creates small text into a larger display in front of the user’s eyes. The setback is that the glasses’ “complicated optical structures” mean that it only offers a monochrome display.
As for aesthetics, the glasses seem pretty similar to a regular pair of glasses. The 5MP camera is smartly hidden at the end of the arm, while its main technology including the quad-core ARM processor, battery, touchpad, and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules are packed inside and around the device.
Xiaomi’s smart glasses are surely packed with features and offer a design that many users would be happy to try out, but the apparent lack of a working prototype means it’s too early to get excited about the glasses at this point in time.
Other smart glasses in the works
Speaking of other smart glasses, Apple is also working on a VR, AR headset. Apple, however, might take a slightly different approach. As per reports, Apple will take a mixed approach that will still require an iPhone to do the magic.
MR or mixed reality headsets and are usually tethered to powerful systems to perform heavy processing tasks. That makes the headset heavy and uncomfortable to wear, but the industry has shifted to standalone headsets such as the Oculus Quest line. But that also puts some load on users’ heads, something Apple is trying to get rid of.
Besides, the social media giant Facebook has also filed a patent for futuristic augmented reality (AR) headwear. The patent filing shows a baseball hat attached with a display.
