Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone brand, announced its new AR smart glasses today in China. The camera ‘Xiaomi Mijia Glasses Camera’ uses Augmented Reality technology.
These glasses are not the casual wear glasses that we carry everywhere, in fact these glasses stand out because of the camera sensors on one side and the display elements on the other.
Xiaomi claims that these smart glasses are supposed to combine intelligent images and augmented reality technology. These glasses are believed to allow users to express their creative knowledge.
Reportedly, these AR glasses weigh 100 grams and include camera features. It is believed that these glasses include a 50-megapixel main camera on the left side, and a second 8-megapixel periscope telephoto camera. Only, the secondary camera offers OIS.
The Xiaomi AR Smart Glasses comes with a periscope telephoto camera that has an aperture of f/3.4, offering 5x optical zooming capabilities, on top of 15x digital zoom.
To peak the brightness, the Smart Glasses comes with Sony’s micro OLED screen including a 3,000 nits brightness. Interestingly, Xiaomi is also using freeform optical technology with an entry brightness of 1800 nits with Sony’s display of 3,281 ppi pixel density, and a contrast ratio of 10,000:1.
Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses are expected to feature a Snapdragon 8 chipset. With 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, the device will also feature dual-band WiFi. It will also include Bluetooth 5.0 and a 1,020mAh backup battery. With 10W fast magnetic charging, these smart glasses will likely take 30 minutes to charge from 0 to 80 percent, supporting a total of 100 minutes of continuous recording.
Notably, these glasses are priced at Rs. 29,044 as they are part of a crowdfunding campaign. Originally, the regular price of this device came to Rs. 31,320.
Till now these glasses are only available in China. Consumers all across the world are interested to know whether Xiaomi will sell it outside their territory or not.
Xiaomi introduced its first smart glasses last year. These glasses came with support for live translation and navigation.
