Xiaomi exhibits off sensible glasses with an all-green, microLED, waveguide show

Xiaomi—the world’s largest smartphone producer—wish to briefly divert your tech consideration away from the iPhone 13 launch to a brand new pair of AR goggles referred to as “Xiaomi Good Glasses.” The corporate calls this a “idea” gadget, however earlier Xiaomi “idea” gadgets have become actual, for-sale merchandise. There is not any launch date or worth level but, however it appears prefer it’s a working gadget. Xiaomi’s toes are firmly on the bottom, and there is not a lot concerning the product that hasn’t been achieved earlier than by Google Glass or Snapchat Spectacles.

The Good Glasses appear to be a barely cumbersome pair of prescription eyeglasses, with a 5MP digicam in a single nook and the show system within the different. The show system is wild—a microLED show fires right into a collection of lenses after which right into a waveguide lens for the proper eye solely. Cramming a microLED right into a pair of glasses apparently wasn’t simple—Xiaomi says the chip measures 2.four mm x 2.02 mm, with particular person pixels sized at four μm. The massive compromise is that the microLED system is definitely monochrome: the glasses can solely show inexperienced, so you may really feel proper at house when you ever used a pc within the 1980s.

The largest AR glasses product available on the market is Snapchat Spectacles, and people take a extra superior strategy to imaginative and prescient, with two full-color waveguide lenses. Xiaomi is pushing the envelope with microLED, whereas Snapchat seems to be utilizing tiny DLP projectors that venture into the waveguides. Snapchat was so impressed with its show provider that it determined to purchase the corporate—referred to as “WaveOptics”—in March for $500 million.

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