LAS VEGAS—Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor will likely power the Samsung Galaxy S8, the LG G6, and other top smartphones this year. But for now, the 835 will debut in the R-8 and R-9 augmented reality glasses from the Ousterhout Design Group.
ODG's smart glasses have so far been enterprise devices; they're for floating instructional or contextual information in the air while you're fixing a car or a pipe, for instance. The R-8 and R-9 try to appeal more to consumers. They will have content from various Fox properties, including movies, TV and books, ODG said in a press release. The company is also showing off an interactive racing game.
I got to wear the R-9 glasses. They're Android-based, and can be controlled either by voice or by pressing buttons and turning a wheel on the underside of the temples. The only app I could use was a video player, which superimposed a 720p movie over reality as if it was playing on a big screen in front of me. The glasses were relatively light at 4.5 ounces, although they definitely felt like I was wearing computer hardware on my face.
But the experience was much more about hands-free information consumption than about actually augmenting reality. While the glasses can do true augmented reality, mapping a room and interacting with the landscape to place virtual characters and furniture in your world, they can't do it in the middle of a media scrum where 30 people are grabbing for the glasses at once, an ODG rep explained. So I couldn't compare the glasses' AR capabilities to Microsoft HoloLens, their most notable competitor.
The R-8 will cost under $1,000 and arrive in the second half of this year, and the R-9 will cost around $1,799 and arrive in the second quarter of this year.
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