Smart glasses carve a lighter path forward for extended reality

Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 smart glasses Watch Now From Google Glass to the Oculus Rift, the headsets required to enable a digital reality experience have created a range of obstacles to adoption. These can include discomfort, the inability to make eye contact while interacting in the real world, battery life challenges, and a host of other issues. There’s strong industry consensus that standalone headsets will become smaller and lighter in the coming years, but there are limits to what can be achieved within self-contained devices. ZDNet Recommends The best VR and AR headsets As mixed reality comes into its own, these are the best headsets for immersive consumer experience. Read More That’s why we can expect to see a new breed of smart glasses in the coming years that rely on processing elsewhere such as the PC, smartphone, or computing puck of the kind Magic Leap relied on. Late last month, Qualcomm rolled out a reference design for a new class of smart eyewear . While still conspicuous as opposed to simpler smart glasses not built for XR, such as Amazon’s Echo Frames , the new class of devices are designed for comfort during extended wearing sessions. Qualcomm has talked… Read full this story

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