Augmented Reality (AR) technology has made significant strides over the past few years, and it’s only going to get better from here. AR has applications across a broad range of industries, from healthcare and education to gaming and entertainment. AR technology overlays digital images, sounds, or video onto the real world in real time, creating a mixed-reality experience for users. Massive tech companies such as Google have already tried, with Google Glass making waves in the tech news arena in the past. The Mobile World Congress trade show (MWC 2023) has become a platform where top tech brands showcase their prototypes or ideas for future products. Xiaomi, a leading Chinese consumer electronics company, unveiled a prototype of its AR glasses called the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition at the event.
These AR glasses feature a pair of Micro-OLED screens and three forward-facing cameras. To ensure that the glasses can be worn for a longer duration, they clock in at 126g, which is quite lightweight. They run on Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chip and have no onboard storage.
What sets these AR glasses apart is that they are entirely wireless, and the glasses connect to a smartphone via the company’s proprietary low-latency communication link. Xiaomi’s AR applications are already far more advanced, with the ability to run interactive virtual desktops, shooting games, virtual Xiaomi Home UI, and much more. The reason why Xiaomi may not be releasing these AR glasses to the public is probably that the company still has to perfect particular aspects of the glasses. That could be the battery life or the wireless connection. Nonetheless, the company hasn’t commented on the same.
Despite being in its prototype stage, the glasses worked as advertised during a demo session, with the visuals floating in front of the user’s face, and the sensors picking up the user’s hand/arm gestures. Xiaomi is yet to announce when these glasses will be officially launched, but the prototype has generated a lot of excitement among tech enthusiasts.
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