Xiaomi has pulled back the curtain on augmented reality glasses the company is working on, called the Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, which is reportedly the first in the industry to boast “Retina-level” image resolution.
Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress Expo in Barcelona this week, the AR glasses feature a micro OLED display panel with free-form light-guiding prisms that bounce light on three sides before delivering it to the user’s eyes. increase. Xiaomi claims 58 pixels per degree, which is reportedly the closest he’s come to achieving Retina-level image quality in the industry. Brightness is also fine with him at 1,200 nits peak.
At 126 grams (4.4 ounces), the Discovery Edition glasses aren’t limited by a cumbersome cable connection to your source device, but, as the name suggests, they incorporate the company’s proprietary low-latency wireless communications technology, Input delay is promised. Equivalent to a wired connection. Or, in the words of Xiaomi, “a wireless connection with a shortest smartphone device-to-glasses time of 3ms and a full link latency of just 50ms”. Users are also promised easy pairing by simply holding the smartphone over the arm of the glasses.
A low-power tracking camera enables AR gesture control with spatial sensing such as placing and manipulating virtual objects, on-screen typing, pinch and zoom, opening and closing apps, swiping and scrolling. This setup also seems to be able to integrate with smart home gadgets. In an introductory video, Xiaomi shows a user turning off the table lamp, grabbing a TV show and continuing to watch it through the glasses. The wearer can also use the smartphone screen to control some or all of the on-screen actions.
Meet the Xiaomi Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition
A front-facing electrochromic lens can block ambient light, letting you immerse yourself in virtual spaces, or let light through, blending digital content with real-world views.
The wearable is reportedly compatible with the company’s flagship 13-series handsets, which launched internationally at MWC, as well as other smartphones capable of supporting Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces platform. The glasses also double as a big-screen entertainment hub for watching TikTok and YouTube content.
The Xiaomi Wireless AR Glasses Discovery Edition rocks the brains of the Snapdragon XR2 Gen1, powered by an in-house silicon-oxygen anode battery, adopting a mixed material of magnesium-lithium alloy and carbon fiber, and comes in titanium color.
It appears to be a wearable in development or a concept prototype at the moment, but there is no product release information at this time.
Source: Xiaomi
