{"id":9186,"date":"2023-02-27T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2023-02-27T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:06:04","slug":"xiaomi-ar-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi launches AR glasses ahead of Apple’s rumored headset"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shortly after launching a new smartphone flagship, Xiaomi<\/a> has secured an early start in the upcoming augmented\/mixed reality headset race. <\/p>\n

On Monday, at the Mobile World Congress<\/a> in Barcelona, the company announced the Xiaomi Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition. It’s the first augmented reality headset from Xiaomi, and it sits somewhere between Ray-Ban’s smart glasses<\/a> and the rumored, upcoming high-tech mixed reality headset from Apple<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Xiaomi’s AR glasses have a pair of MicroOLED displays which Xiaomi claims are a “retina-level” display with an “industry leading” pixel per degree density of 58. They’re powered by a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chip, and come with gesture control, meaning you’ll be able to operate them by waving your fingers in front of your face. <\/p>\n

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Xiaomi shared a couple of examples of how this might work in real-life usage. For examples, users should be able to select and open apps, swipe through pages, and exit apps without using a smartphone (though they will also be able to pair a smartphone and use it to control the glasses instead of relying on gestures). <\/p>\n

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Usage examples including watching TikTok<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> videos (both apps will be able to optimize the display area of the glasses, which should turn them into sort of a portable cinema), as well as control smart home devices. <\/p>\n

Despite being a fairly high-tech product, Xiaomi’s glasses still manage to look like regular glasses, but just barely. Thanks to a magnesium-lithium alloy structure, and the use of carbon fiber, they weigh 128 grams, which isn’t exactly light for a pair of glasses (for comparison, Ray-Ban’s Stories weigh 49 grams). Judging from promo pictures, they’re quite big on the face, too, though still way smaller than most VR headsets. <\/p>\n

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Notably, using Xiaomi’s AR glasses will require pairing them with either a Xiaomi 13 phone<\/a> or another Snapdragon Spaces-ready device. <\/p>\n

An important keyword in Xiaomi’s AR glasses announcement is “wireless.” Apple’s rumored, upcoming mixed reality glasses will reportedly<\/a> be tethered to an external battery, and the first iterations will probably be quite large and heavy. In its press release, Xiaomi mentioned<\/a> a “self-developed silicon oxygen anode battery,” but didn’t say anything about battery life. <\/p>\n

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The glasses being labeled “Discovery Edition,” they probably won’t be widely available, at least at first. Xiaomi didn’t share any details on availability and price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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