AR Glasses Overlay Your Surroundings To Explain The World Around You
TCL, a Chinese electronics brand, has designed augmented-reality glasses built to bring context to your surroundings.
The RayNeo X2 looks like your box standard glasses with slightly thicker black frames, a camera hidden in the bridge, and a microphone and speakers in the stems. The smart eyewear has a bag of tricks up its sleeve, and one of the things it can do is translate foreign languages in real-time.
If you find yourself lost in translation in a foreign country, pop the RayNeo X2s on, and you’ll be good to go. With the glasses, audio picked up from the speech of people around you is translated back into your mother tongue and displayed at the bottom of your field of vision like subtitles on a show.
The eyewear also comes with the same SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) GPS found in autonomous vehicles. As a result, the RayNeo X2 not only points you in the right direction but also highlights important historical and notable landmarks.
And while you’re out taking in the views, you can even have the glasses snap some photos for you using a hands-free camera. They can capture pictures and videos at eye level. On top of that, the eyewear has image stabilization and a night mode for avid photographers who are wondering.
Lastly, RayNeo X2 can play back music for its listener through its speakers. An integrated “whisper mode” prevents those around from listening and gives the user privacy, much like the Bose Bluetooth Sunglasses.
The glasses employ a microLED heads-up display that is embedded into the frames of the eyewear rather than the lenses. This also allows those with vision problems to add a prescription to the lenses.
TCL also claims that the glasses are the world’s first to feature a full-color microLED waveguide display. This means that the eyewear can host high levels of contrast and brightness so that users can seamlessly transition indoors and outdoors. The display is also positioned at the center to prevent the wearer from experiencing eye strain.
The RayNeo X2 will be ready for developers in the spring and will be released to the public at an unknown date.
