Intel has introduced its new development: smart glasses Vaunt, projecting the display directly onto the retina of the right eye. Externally, these glasses look like a completely normal, indistinguishable from those which people wear in daily life. In fact, however, is a high-tech gadget, which has in the recent past by science fiction writers could only dream of.
Glasses Intel not built-in camera, frightening other people, on the case you will not find a lot of buttons, no LCD and strange glass prism, as in Google Glass, not even the speaker or microphone (at least not yet). This is a completely ordinary at first glance, a subject to which many people used in their everyday life. The only difference from normal glasses is that Vaunt projects a screen image directly on the retina.
Journalists portal The Verge, one of the first managed to test the prototype for yourself. On the outside, nothing betrays the fact that man uses smart glasses, is that a tiny red Fleck on the right lens sometimes visible at a certain angle. Vaunt eyewear are launched in the program “early access”, as has happened with Google Glass. Only now, Intel has several other purposes. Instead of trying to convince us that “head-mounted displays capable of changing our lives,” designers and engineers of Intel are trying to change the head-mounted displays so that those most suitable to our lifestyle.
Glasses projecting a small screen in your right eye. At the moment the prototype only supports red color of letters, symbols and images. This display can show any particularly important information, for example notifications from your smartphone. To close a notification, gently waving his head to the side. Laser projector based on the technology of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser and hidden in the handle, projecting the image on a transparent reflecting mirror on the lens, after which it is projected into the eye. The developers claim that this laser is absolutely safe for human health.
Glasses will be available in several options of frames, so that each user will be able to choose something for themselves, based on personal preferences. Later, in 2018, Intel is planning to launch a special program for developers that anyone can get their hands on the sample points and the SDK for writing software for them. It is curious that the glasses will work with both devices running Android and iOS. There will also be released the official app for these operating systems, as well as your own voice assistant (as we have said, the current prototype of the glasses are not even equipped with a microphone). The cost of the device and the date the proceeds of its sale are not reported.
Intel introduced the smart glasses Vaunt, are virtually indistinguishable from conventional
Sergey Grey