The glasses displays are looking better than ever.
The controls are feeling tighter.
And yet, theyre not there yet, not by miles.
The RayNeo X3 Pro offers on-display translation abilities, though it doesn’t work in a crowded room.© Photo: Rémi Lou / Gizmodo
The best glasses we used were merely screen replacements.
Companies like Chamelo trotted out smart glasses with color-changing lenses.
These werent all small companies, either.
XReal’s One Pro glasses offer an ultrawide option for PC and the ability to control the size of your mirrored screen. © Photo: Remi Lou / Gizmodo
Alongsidenew handhelds, Lenovo debuted a revised pair of glasses, the $400 Legion Glasses 2.
They are an update to the companys similar,tethered glasses from 2023with far better screen clarity and brightness.
Those glasses were made for handhelds, though theyre still ancillary to the mobile gaming experience.
The LAWK shades are meant for sporting types who don’t mind seeing blaring green text laid on their view. © Photo: Remi Lou / Gizmodo
Similarly, AR glasses maker XReal trotted out its $500 XReal One and $600 XReal One Pro.
These glasses tether to your phone or computer to create a secondary screen.
They include a switch to cement the image in place or have it follow your head where you look.
They were our favorite glasses of the convention, and they earned a spot on ourbest of showlist.
Its a hard thing to hear, but all those glasses with any true XR bent were merely prototypes.
Take TCLs RayNeo brand.
It worked, at least most of the time.
With too much clamor around us, the glasses struggled to interpret language accurately or hear our commands.
The glasses have touch controls on the right-side arm that workedmostly.
These were all similar issues I experienced with the companys prototype glasses from two years ago.
At least the RayNeo glasses were using Waveguide displays instead of projection, like on the XReal glasses.
That was a routine issue I experienced with other brands products.
The glasses are made for the sporting users who want to start race timers in AR.
Could it start a timer?
Yes, but then you have ugly green text clogging up your field of view.
Those are more of a Meta Ray-Ban-style glasses without a screen.
Im bullish on AR glasses.
They have an appeal far beyond bulky and heavy VR headsets.
They were limited when I tried them last year with a prototype UI.
Developing an untethered UI is hard.
Theyre a developer haven, but not exactly the kind of unit any Joe Schmo would reach for first.
Nobody but developers and self-proclaimed futurists will find most of these AR glasses useful in day-to-day life.
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