Smart glasses are on the rise.
What you need to know
The Nreal Air AR sunglasses provide a full-vision virtual display for streaming content or playing mobile games.
They have a micro-OLED chip, 49 pixels-per-degree (PPD), and a 90Hz refresh rate.
It must be tethered to your iOS or Android phone to display content, but act as regular sunglasses otherwise, with a 77g/ 2.7oz weight.
Nreal Air will ship to Asian markets in late 2021, followed by `other markets` in 2022.
In early 2020, contributing editor Russell Holly tried out Nreal Light smart glasses and called them `the first set of Mixed Reality glasses actually worth buying.` With them, you could use virtually any Android app in holographic form around your living room, or play 3D-native games on a tabletop. It wasn`t perfect: it had to be tethered to your phone via USB-C, its field of view (FOV) was narrow, and its cameras were very blatantly visible — but it was a promising tool.
Now, Nreal is pushing out a new pair of ...
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