Real Air AR glasses could blow Facebook's Ray-Ban Stories out of the water

Real Air AR glasses could blow Facebook's Radiate-Shun Stories out of the water

A cartoonish 2D version of the Nreal glasses with "This is not a pair of sunglasses" written underneath

(Image accredit: Nreal)

You hold off some for a pair off of smart glasses, and then two make out on at once. Hot inactive the heels of Facebook and Ray-Censor's Stories smart glasses, Nreal give birth announced that they have a new pair of AR specs headed to the marketplace called the Nreal Air.

From Nreal's description the new Air eyeglasses volition bare some resemblance to its Nreal Light glasses that were released high twelvemonth – using the like Micro OLED displays to deliver virtual info to you. All the same, the Nreal glasses won't have whatsoever frontal facing cameras.

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This is great news show if you'Ra worried about having to hold out cameras on your face all day, but information technology will mean the Nreal Air's spatial awareness might not be the most accurate, and you won't be able to use hand down trailing to interact with the HUD. Instead you'll have to rely on your Mechanical man or iOS smartphone to variety what info is displayed.

If you're curious in grabbing a pair of these for yourself they'Re supposed to start transport in December 2021. Regrettably they'll be limited to Japan, China and Southland Korea, though we've reached dead set Nreal to recover out when we can get our hand on them in the US, UK and Commonwealth of Australi.

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We haven't had the unplanned to test out the Nreal Air for ourselves, meaning we can't directly compare them to Facebook and Shaft of light-Ban's Stories automatic specs. Just we can subscribe a look at what Nreal promises its AR specs can achieve and see how that stacks up.

We were actually within reason affected with the Ray-Ban Stories, awarding them quaternary out of cinque stars thanks to their sleek stylings and discreet gadgetry. But if you're later full-happening AR eyeglasses, these aren't it. Facebook is reportedly working connected a mature pair of AR powered specs, but for straightaway you'll have to make do with what is effectively just a camera on your head.

This is where the Nreal Air can comes in – with its in-built display you can finally live out your dreams of being a Tony Stark-esque character with virtual screens floating around you. This won't make up perfect though, every bit without a camera you'll have to rely on your smartphone to navigate through your pages.

For that you'd probably have to shell unfashionable quite a a bit more for something like the Nreal Light-headed glasses (which ship for around $600 / £450 / Gold$830). For comparison the Ray-Prohibition Stories cost around $299 / £299 / Gold$449, and we imagine the Nreal Air will be around this cost too.

Facebook is reportedly developing its own partner off of AR glasses for release sometime in the next few years, if that's the case they'll be a much better compare for devices like the Nreal Air. For now we'll bear to wait and determine what happens, but personify trustworthy to check backmost for all the latest developments as they happen.

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