During the last MWC, Oppo presented the Air Glass 3, connected glasses equipped with artificial intelligence and a design close to that of traditional glasses. They could actually almost pass for classic, slightly thick glasses…
Just a prototype for now
The device integrates AndesGPT, the language model developed by Oppo, which allows users to interact with a voice assistant, directly from their glasses. If you’ve always dreamed of planning a trip without taking your smartphone out of your pocket, the Air Glass 3 will make it happen! More prosaically, you can do voice searches on the internet and ask all kinds of questions.
Like ChatGPT and other chatbots, Oppo’s chat can provide answers to complex questions, but beware of hallucinations… Oppo’s connected glasses also stand out for their ability to project information directly into the user’s field of vision, keeping the look of classic prescription glasses.
A technical feat made possible thanks to a new waveguide resin that reduces the rainbow effect often observed with this type of technology. With a brightness of up to 1,000 nits, Air Glass 3 offers an experience similar to that of a smartphone screen.
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Oppo’s Air Glass 3 weighs about fifty grams, which will make them almost unnoticeable once on the nose. This lightness, combined with sound technology exploiting the principle of sound field inversion (acoustic technique used to reduce sound leakage to keep calls private), guarantees an immersive user immersion while preserving privacy calls.
The device is also equipped with four microphones and touch sensors to facilitate navigation and the performance of many tasks such as taking calls, listening to music or even viewing photos. Unfortunately, the Air Glass 3 is only a prototype, and Oppo has not indicated anything about possible marketing. The Air Glass 2 also didn’t find its way to stores.
Oppo is not the only manufacturer interested in this fledgling market. Xreal is one of the pioneers in the sector, the company unveiled the Air 2 Ultra earlier this year. Meta could unveil its own “Orion” prototype, which has been in development for years, this fall at the Konekti conference. The launch of the Vision Pro has visibly breathed new life into this entire industry, and even if Apple’s headset is very far from the design of glasses, it is probably what the manufacturer has in mind in the long term.