At last week's OPPO conference, in addition to the folding screen mobile phone Find N that surprised the audience, the green factory also brought a "green in front of the eyes" - OPPO Air Glass.
It's not Tony who is blind, people OPPO this time, but really put the "green and riot" to the end.
They introduced a pair of single-lens smart glasses with a monochromatic green display.
This has a strong sense of visual appearance, and there is a strong suspicion that the product designer of OPPO Air Glass is a Dragon Ball iron fan...
But then again, products like OPPO Air Glass appeared at this point in time at the end of 2021, which is still quite surprising.
Google Glass jade crush in front, Huawei glasses audio in the back, OPPO's choice in the form of smart glasses products is actually not much, nothing more than bias towards wearable devices or bias towards AR devices to choose the topic of the essay.
Huawei's glasses audio really catches people off guard. ▼
It would be quite difficult for Tony to pick one to do.
After getting started with the glasses, Tony felt that OPPO Air Glass, although still a certain distance from consumer products, did open up a new idea of smart glasses.
No nonsense, come and see things.
Because it is a concept product, this time OPPO spent on the packaging, but there is no need for mobile phone packaging.
Under the frosted plastic shell, a sparkling mirror is wrapped, and if the box is put up, it looks like a grain of rice...
Inside the box, the Glass monolithic lens body is placed on a charging base, and there is a pair of ordinary optical glasses on the side, and both of them are equipped with separate glasses boxes.
If you take a closer look, the base of oppo Air Glass is still quite like a pen holder, which is boring and very business.
Tony also hopes that the commercially available version of the glasses can also continue the style of this type of packaging, which is really quite avant-garde...
The body of the smart lens uses a monochrome Micro-LED display, and oppo's self-developed Spark micro light machine can provide an average eye brightness of 1400 nits.
You should know that the peak brightness of the iPhone13 screen is only 1200 nits, and the eye brightness of oppo Air Glass 1400 nits can basically cover most of the outdoor bright light scenes.
According to OPPO, this optical machine is not only the smallest optical machine in the industry, but also uses the "diffracted optical waveguide" technology widely used in AR glasses today.
This technology is the core of the realization of the display of virtual images on the lens.
The biggest feature of AR (augmented reality) is that it is necessary to see virtual content on the lens without hindering the real scene.
In simple terms, virtual information can not block the line of sight, to be transparent, to achieve such an effect, you must add a set of optical combiners (Optical Combiner) in front of the human eye.
In simple terms, it is necessary to add a refractive lens to display the virtual content on the screen.
The content displayed on the screen is presented in front of the eye through the refraction of the lenses, without hindering the human eye from observing the real-world scene. ▼
For example, like Google Glass, it uses prisms to reflect the display content into the human eye.
The so-called diffracted optical waveguide is an upgrade scheme to replace the traditional lens structure with a better special material.
It can further enhance the stereoscopic sense of the picture, we are familiar with Microsoft HoloLens2, Magic Leap and other AR products, the use of this display technology.
I want both the display effect and the weight, which is also the biggest advantage of diffracted optical waveguide technology.
The use of OPPO Air Glass is quite competitive, you can't clip it directly to the ear, but you have to attach it to the matching glasses through magnetic suction, which is considered to be the correct wearing.
The lenses of the glasses only do the fixing function and will not affect the display of the monolithic mirror itself.
Although it looks very elegant, it is inevitable that it will be light and heavy on the other, even if the weight of the glasses body is only 30 grams, it can still be clearly felt after wearing.
After putting it on, you can interact by interacting with the sensor bar on the right side, sliding back and forth to control the direction, tapping OK, and double-clicking to return.
Of course, basic functions like answering and receiving calls, there is no need to worry about gesture interaction, nod yes shake no is done.
OPPO's definition of this pair of glasses is more for the mobile phone side expansion, OPPO Air Glass can not be used independently of the mobile phone, you need to download an App to add functions.
At present, the supported functions include time, weather, health management, to-do items, AR shop visits, online translation, teleprompters, map navigation and other functions, which are not practical and have a strong sense of science fiction.
Tony's favorite thing here is this function called AR Exploration Shop.
The glasses will display all the shops around the user, and if you see the point you want to go to, click the touch bar to confirm, you can open the navigation.
With the Map App on the phone, the transformation information of the navigation is directly displayed in front of the car, similar to the car's head-up display.
For a social animal like Tony who travels on a bicycle every day, such a navigation method is simply a dream.
Just imagine, if you can integrate this function into the takeaway software in the future, and each of the brothers who deliver food is equipped with a pair of such glasses, the traffic accidents caused by looking down at the mobile phone to check the road will be greatly reduced.
OPPO Air Glass's teleprompter function is also a must.
Import the prepared speech text into your mobile phone and connect your glasses, and you can read the speech in public.
However, because it is a single lens, the eyes always feel a little unnatural when reading the manuscript, and the display of the font is not so clear.
The most important thing is to wear this pair of glasses full of secondary senses to speak in front of people, or it takes a certain amount of courage...
In addition, OPPO Air Glass can also provide reliable real-time translation function, encounter international friends communication is not smooth, press the recording button, the other party said what can be immediately displayed in front of the eyes.
As for other features, Tony has not yet explored it, but if OPPO is officially willing to add a combat detector function to it, it will be very interesting...
Overall, OPPO Air Glass is a bold new attempt.
A technology giant such as Google proved to people in 2012 that smart glasses want to replace mobile phones into people's lives, and it is still too early.
9 years ago, Google Glass gave everyone a beautiful dream of interaction without hands and only by eyes.
Despite the problems of cost, application and privacy leakage, this product ultimately failed to popularize.
Now, 9 years later, the progress of integrated chips is changing rapidly, but the main function of wanting to integrate a smartphone on a pair of glasses is still a fantasy.
Batteries, high brushes, cameras, chip power consumption, each part that can run smoothly in the mobile phone, plugged into the smart glasses, I am afraid it is still far behind.
That is the second, to create an accessory ecology centered on mobile phones to grasp users.
Big manufacturers have become very skilled in doing this, whether it is TWS headphones, tablets, bracelets or watches, they are all ecological accessories created by manufacturers for the mobile phones of their own products.
At this time, looking back at the "smart glasses" abandoned by Google, is it possible to also embark on this road?
It is true that very few people have explored this track.
In fact, the current smart watch has effectively solved some needs (exercise monitoring, sleep monitoring, NFC key card, etc.), the price is not too expensive, everyone can afford it.
And smart glasses have unlimited possibilities in the expansion of AR windows.
Whether it is navigation, information pop-ups, quick replies, or scanning payments, there are still too many potentials for smart glasses applications that have not been developed.
Now it seems that if the navigation function of OPPO Air Glass is designed, it will already be very useful.
Anyway, Tony is happy to see that there are technology companies that have stepped forward and developed new products in the field of smart glasses.
After all, now in the mobile phone, everyone has rolled up the sky without rolling, from the camera to the screen to today's ISP (image processing chip), really tired.
At this time, take the initiative to open up a new track, in case OPPO becomes in the future, it will be the first in the industry.
This process can be painful, but all pioneering technology products are like this step by step to feel the stones to cross the river.
OPPO has the courage and courage to try to break into no man's land to touch the future and expand the territory, even if it does not succeed in the end, it is worth applauding them.
Author: Jiji Editor: Polygon & Boundary Cover: XuanXuan