Oppo, one of the world’s leading smartphone makers, has unveiled a prototype of its latest augmented reality (AR) glasses at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Oppo Air Glass 3 is a sleek and lightweight device that aims to provide a seamless and immersive experience of artificial intelligence (AI) and AR.
What are the Oppo Air Glass 3?
The Oppo Air Glass 3 are a pair of smart glasses that look like regular glasses, but with a full-color display within the lenses. The glasses can project digital content over the real-world view, such as messages, maps, information, and more. The glasses can also access Oppo’s own large language model (LLM), called AndesGPT, through a smartphone, making them more intelligent and helpful.
How do the Oppo Air Glass 3 work?
The Oppo Air Glass 3 need to be connected to an Oppo smartphone with Color OS 13 or above. The glasses can be controlled by touch sensors on the side of the frame, or by voice commands. The glasses are equipped with a voice assistant that is powered by AndesGPT, an AI model trained on a huge amount of data. The voice assistant can perform information searches, conduct conversations, and assist users in tasks like planning travel. The voice assistant is currently only available in China, but Oppo plans to expand it to other regions in the future.
What are the features and benefits of the Oppo Air Glass 3?
The Oppo Air Glass 3 have several features and benefits that make them stand out from other AR glasses. Some of them are:
- Lightweight and comfortable: The glasses weigh only 50 grams, making them easy to wear for long periods of time. The glasses use a magnesium-lithium alloy for the frame and a PA nylon material for the temples, ensuring durability and flexibility. The glasses also have a self-developed resin waveguide with a high refractive index, a high display brightness uniformity, and a peak eye brightness of more than 1000 nits, ensuring a clear and vivid view in any lighting condition.
- Intelligent and interactive: The glasses can access AndesGPT, one of the most advanced AI models in the world, through a smartphone, providing a “burdenless” AI experience. The glasses can understand text, images, video, and audio, and interpret complex user scenarios. The glasses can also interact with users through the voice assistant, which can respond to natural language queries and commands, and provide personalized and contextualized information and suggestions.
- Versatile and functional: The glasses support various features and functions, such as music playback, voice calls, image browsing, information display, and more. The glasses also support future software updates that will add more features, such as teleprompter, navigation, timer, translation, and quick previews for health and fitness information. The glasses can also work with other Oppo devices, such as the Oppo Watch and the Oppo Band, to create a more integrated and convenient ecosystem.
When will the Oppo Air Glass 3 be available?
The Oppo Air Glass 3 are still a prototype, and Oppo has not announced a release date or a price for them. However, Oppo has said that it is committed to developing and innovating in the field of AI and AR, and that it hopes to bring the glasses to the market in the near future. Oppo has also said that it will provide customized optical lenses for people who need them, and that it will try to find a design that can be worn every day as a companion to a smartphone.
