Last year at its Inno Day event, Oppo unveiled AR glasses, and this year it's back with a much improved version. While the previous iteration seemed to model VR glasses in design, this time around, with the Oppo AR Glass 2021, we're getting something that's much closer to a casual pair of eyewear. Not quite there yet entirely, but definitely closer.
Oppo says the AR Glass 2021 is
75% lighter than its predecessor, while connecting it to a Find X2 Pro
smartphone through a USB-C to USB-C cable results in a big boost in performance
thanks to the Snapdragon 865 chipset.
The Birdbath optical solution
used increases contrast by 53%, brightness uniformity by 98%, and pixels per
degree by 40% compared to the model showcased in 2019. There's a 0.71-inch OLED
display built-in, which has its light refracted by a spectroscope to the eye.
The AR Glass 2021 also has a customized large amplitude speaker and a unique
semi-open rear cavity acoustic design. All of this means you get a home theater
like experience that's akin to watching a 90-inch screen from 3m away.
When paired with a smartphone,
you can interact with the glasses by using your handset as a touchpad. You can
also track your hands and fingers through the glasses' set of binocular fisheye
cams, which can recognize 21 markers on a single hand, four on one finger.
Those cameras paired with a ToF camera enable centimeter-level accuracy within
1-degree.
Use cases for the glasses
include AR streaming of online and local HD videos, through a
"theater-like" viewing experience, AR gaming with the Multiplayer
Online Battle Arena and tower defense games, virtual placement of furniture in
your home, and AR picture taking with RGB cams that capture virtual and real
scenes simultaneously.
The Oppo AR developer program
is coming next year, with Oppo providing a comprehensive client-side SDK and a
development tool chain, to help the community create AR-specific apps.