Until now, you’ve had to pull out your phone on the go to launch apps, browse news feeds, make calls, and more. If the manufacturer TCL has its way, in the near future we should have both hands free during these activities – simply by doing them on our glasses!
The new RayNeo X2 AR glasses were unveiled at CES 2023. The gates will soon be open to interested app developers, before the futuristic visual aid will then be available to all of us at a point in the future that has not yet been specified. Let’s take a closer look at the technical details!
6 GB of RAM – for glasses!
If you read the data sheet of the RayNeo X2, you have to look twice at the product category to make sure that you are actually dealing with glasses and not with a smartphone. Because many terms are strikingly reminiscent of our mobile everyday companion:
- Snapdragon-XR2-SoC
- Micro-LED display with up to 1,000 nits of brightness and a 25-degree field of view
- 6GB of RAM
- 128GB storage space
- 16 MP Kamera
- 590 mAh battery
What is all the hardware power for? The RayNeo X2 is intended to act as real AR glasses, showing you information in your field of vision, displaying instructions for real-time navigation, automatically translating captured text, making video calls and more. To ensure that there is enough choice when it comes to software, TCL will start a developer preview in the first quarter of 2023.
Above all, the centrally installed camera is anything but decent.
And what about the optics? Let’s be honest: we don’t give a damn about the coolest technology if we look like a bad cyberpunk cosplayer while wearing the AR glasses. So let’s take a look at the design of the RayNeo X2. This is – who would have thought it – even visibly coarser and more angular than with conventional glasses.
In particular, the camera unit installed in the middle should still draw irritated looks from the public in its current form. But it doesn’t matter, after all, some design changes should of course also be made before the product is launched.
Finally, we come to the price, and we can keep it short: No amount has been mentioned yet. But we just assume that you won’t be able to get the sci-fi glasses at the optician around the corner for little money at first.
TLC isn’t the only company working on a touch-down display. Lenovo also introduced a similar product last year that projects smartphone content directly in front of your eyes.
Lenovo unveils touch-up display
Look at your smartphone and have your hands free
How do you like the RayNeo X2 in its current form? Would you walk around with AR glasses if they were optically unobtrusive enough, or can’t you think of any possible use for them? Feel free to write us your opinion in the comments, because you have the perspective either way!
