With Apple’s $3500 Vision Pro out in the wild now, people have gotten used to the idea of paying a huge premium for VR goggles that strap to your head.
Many people are not in love with that vision, however. Even with the best technology, VR goggles are giving you an alternate version of your reality. AR (augmented reality), on the other hand, let you look through transparent glass, with digital overlays in your field of view.
For that experience, the options (and technology) are still limited, though experts imagine this type of technology will advance quite quickly. One example of it are the new Frame glasses by Brilliant.
They’re offering a starkly different vision, one defined by their light touch, and minimal features. With a design that looks much more like regular glasses, they pack in a good amount of technology that relies on AI to answer questions, translate conversations, and look up items that the viewer is peering at.
The features are somewhat compelling, and at a suggested price of $350, they come in a factor of ten times cheaper than Apple’s latest entrant. Even better, they are developing their product in an open source manner, which should mean greater collaboration and openness as the platform matures.
Check out the photos and video below, which give a sense of Brilliant’s initial product in this space, which we imagine will grow rapidly.
Youtube video here.
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Looks like just what we’ve wanted & have been reading about in sci-fi fiction for over a hundred years.
Questions; are the glasses single focus; or do they come in bifocal or variable focus??? will be an important issue almost immediately. Once we have what you are offering we are going to want it all the time. Like feel phones it will be the have to have tech of the immediate future!!
Wow, you were among the very early adopters. Do you still have the Google Glasses? Imagining they’re obsolete but a collector’s item by now.
The video is embedded in the article on our website, and we’ve added a link to it as well. Cheers.
So… where’s the video?
I had Google Glass in 2014. Loved it. Camera, Display, Mic, Speaker. Why oh why can’t I have that in 2024? This is close. But without a speaker how do you take a phone call or listen to music? And why on earth is the camera limited so it can take a picture but can’t store it? Sad.