The recent press conferences combined with CES have made the author more convinced of one thing: smart glasses are a burden on the ear. Why? And listen to me tell you the details. Weight/endurance
Smart glasses to be called smart, first of all, there must be electricity. But there is a problem with electricity: how big is the battery? The battery is small, and the smart thing, even if it is two small speakers, has no battery life. The battery is big, it's too heavy!
So where are the boundaries? The author believes that the past glass glasses should be the upper limit, because today are resin lenses are lighter, can transfer a part of the weight of glass lenses to the battery or electronic components, heavier ears can not stand.
The Death of Function
Over the past few years, we have given unlimited expectations to smart glasses. They are even imagining how wonderful it would be for smart glasses to become contact lenses in the future. But the truth is not so, from Google Glass counting, to today has been almost ten years, you think about it in fact, the current so-called smart glasses function is not as good as Google Glass.
But Google Glass is a failure, because it has a small screen, and it is not light, and it is useless, the most important thing is that Google Glass is very expensive. Today's smart glasses are generally very few functions that can be achieved for the sake of cost. Either the LED can only display simple text and graphics, or only two speakers can play the role of headphones and telephones.
True intelligence is too far away
Are there any futuristic smart glasses? In fact, there has always been, that is, Microsoft is Hololens. This is serious AR glasses, cut very smart. But the price is very expensive, Microsoft can only commercial, coupled with the large size is too heavy, can only be worn on the top of the head, can not be worn on the ear.
It can be said that with the density of current semiconductors, the integration of smart glasses with the ability of smart phones a few years ago is not realistic, and the technology cannot be cheap, light and intelligent, and perhaps in a few years, the integration of semiconductors 2 nanometers and 1 nanometers will have hope?
What do smart glasses do?
At CES, in many of the demonstration AR scenes, we wear smart glasses, and as long as we speak to it, it will superimpose a lot of things in front of our eyes. Looks incredibly beautiful.
AR horizon
But in fact, this can only be an animation demonstration, because it takes an incredibly powerful camera, lens and processor, analytic AI to identify everything in your business, and then real-time drawing through AR superimposed vision, which is not today's technology. So what does today's technology look like? Let's just talk about identifying the target, the current very powerful car machine, that is, the identification of lanes, roadside traffic signs, is not particularly reliable.
Now, all companies have not figured out what the role of smart glasses is: is it a visual terminal that replaces mobile phone screens? You can't do it, but the cameras, Bluetooth headsets, and simple text displays that can do it look weak. This industry still needs several years to be conceived, at least now is not a good time.
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