Oppo announces Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ device

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The Air Glass will be on sale early next year. The Air Glass is described by Oppo as an assisted reality product, which means it projects 2D information into your field of view rather than putting 3D objects onto the real world. Sort of like Google Glass.

The Air Glass has a small processor and weighs just 30g. It should last for 3 hours of active usage and 40 hours on stand-by. There are two frame designs, a silver half-frame and a black full-frame, and each is available in two sizes. The frame has a magnetic port that can be used to attach more conventional glasses.

The display uses a projector with MicroLED tech that can give a peak brightness of up to 3 million nits, though Oppo says the actual brightness will be up to 1,400 nits. It can be used with a Smart Glass app on a phone running the ColorOS 11 or above, as well as with touch, voice, hand tracking, and head tracking.

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The proposed use cases for the Air Glass are relatively small. It can be used for notifications and directions, as well as features like teleprompting and real-time translation, according to the company. The Air Glass isn't going to give you rich content in your eyes because the display is only 16 or 128 levels of grayscale.

It probably isn't going to be a mainstream product. The Air Glass will only be available in mainland China in the first quarter of 2022, according to Oppo.

The Air Glass was announced during the annual event. The MariSilicon X is an in-house NPU chip that will be used in the Find X flagship in the first quarter of next year. The Find N, the first folding phone from Oppo, was confirmed last week.