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MagyarMWC 2024 | Oppo unveils Air Glass 3 assisted reality glasses prototype with AI voice-assistant and lightweight design
When Oppo first launched its Air Glass prototype AR glasses in 2021, the biggest highlights were its micro projector and custom waveguide technologies, not to mention its unique monocular design. Now, at MWC 2024 Barcelona, the company has just unveiled the Air Glass 3, and the design of the third iteration has evolved into a surprisingly regular-looking pair of glasses, despite packing in some impressive technology upgrades. However, the Air Glass 3’s standout feature is its AI based voice-assistant which is backed by AndesGPT, Oppo’s proprietary large language model (LLM).
The Air Glass 3 is an assisted reality (aR) device, which distinguishes itself from its augmented reality (AR) brethren in that it simply and unobtrusively overlays information over the wearer’s field of view, rather than generating relatively complex graphics that interact with real-world objects and ‘augment’ the environment.
Thus, unlike true AR glasses like the Xreal Air 2 Ultra and the Brilliant Labs’ Frame, or even Ray Ban’s Meta smart glasses, the Air Glass 3 has no camera for object-recognition or video capture. Instead, a button on the temple activates the AI voice assistant. The device pairs with the Air Glass app running (as of now, exclusively) on an Oppo smartphone, through which it accesses Oppo’s LLM, AndesGPT. It can also take voice calls, play music and browse colour images using touch gestures on the stem as control inputs.
Weighing a comfortable 50 grams, the Air Glass 3 is heavier than its previous iteration, but manages to look remarkably sleeker and less like a gadget. It also features improved waveguide technology to project a now full-colour display with “display brightness uniformity of more than 50%, and a peak eye brightness of more than 1,000 nits”.
With the voice assistant being central to the user-interface, Oppo has put four microphones for optimal voice pickup, and uses what it calls “reverse sound field technology” to ensure privacy for the audio output.
The industry is clearly betting on hardware powered by AI voice assistants as the next big thing in personal computing, whether it be the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin, or more comparable wearables like the Ray Ban Meta glasses and Brilliant Labs Frame. The fact that Oppo has been steadily working on the Air Glass concept for three years – and making significant hardware improvements – shows its commitment to and belief in that trend.
That said, the Air Glass 3, like its predecessors, is still very much a prototype. With no price details or launch plans announced, and given that Oppo’s AndesGPT is currently only available in China, it’s safe to say we’ll have to wait a while for a global launch.
Buy the XREAL Air 2 AR glasses on Amazon.
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