At the ongoing MWC 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, Oppo has unveiled a prototype of its new generation of assisted reality glasses, dubbed Oppo Air Glass 3.
The Oppo Air Glass 3 is the successor to the Oppo Air Glass 2 that the company showcased at last year’s edition of the trade show but which it had introduced in late 2022 at its Inno Day. According to Oppo, the Inno Day is its “signature annual event through which it explores emerging technologies and highlights its achievements over the past year”. Before it was the (OG) Oppo Air Glass, introduced at the 2021 Inno Day.
Assisted reality, as used in the case of the Oppo Air Glass devices, means that the devices simply project information on the user’s view without obstructing their vision or perception of the world around them. Basically, like what we have been seeing with Apple’s Vision Pro, if you’ve been keeping tabs on the happenings in the tech space over the past year and, especially, over the last few weeks when the Vision Pro has officially gone on sale in some markets.
“Weighing just 50 grams, the Oppo Air Glass 3 features a self-developed resin waveguide with a refractive index of 1.70, a display brightness uniformity of more than 50%, and a peak eye brightness of more than 1,000 nits,” Oppo says.
The difference between the Air Glass 3 and its predecessors? Well, like every other tech company out there, Oppo is going all in on Artificial Intelligence (AI) this year and its extended reality headset is not being left behind. There’s an AndesGPT on the Air Glass app that users of the headset will have installed on their smartphones that integrates an AI voice assistant to the headset, activated by pressing the headset’s temple, allowing users to perform various tasks.
Currently, Oppo smartphones rely on the Google Assistant from Google. Other Android device makers like the Transsion duo of Tecno and Infinix as well as Samsung and others, have had their own voice assistants for a while.
Will we be seeing this voice assistant make its way to Oppo smartphones as well?
“The Oppo Air Glass 3 also supports touch interaction, which can be used to easily control functions such as music playback, voice calls, information display, color image browsing, and more. The glasses also feature reverse sound field technology, an open acoustic design with four microphones, and other innovations that improve noise isolation to deliver high audio quality and enhanced privacy protection,” says Oppo.
