Xiaomi presents some incredible augmented reality glasses that you cannot buy

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The Chinese manufacturer was waiting for the official start of the Mobile World Congress to present the Xiaomi 13 and/or Xiaomi 13 Pro, but today it has one more surprise for us.

Xiaomi Wireless AMBIENCE Glass Discovery Edition. There are endless names for this device that is a kind of supervitamin of Google Glass and that has been pursued or even repelled by others such as Magic Leap: it manages to combine what we see in the real world with information and graphics that expand that vision and make it more useful and practical (and fun).

Construction lights. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has posted several tweets pointing out, for example, that its design is especially light (126 grams) and resistant thanks to a magnesium and lithium alloy structure and the use of materials such as fiberglass.

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The Qualcomm heart to control all operations The monoculars will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chip, which is used in the Quest Pro lens, for example. According to the manufacturer, Xiaomi has also integrated a Syloxigen anode, which helps make the battery more practical.

No lenses, just screens. Monocles have a similar finish to sunglasses, but they use a massive frame, at least compared to a regular hat, the top of which contains a large bezel in which there are cameras that capture the outside world.

The monoculars also feature a pair of tiny microOLED displays that sit atop two tiny “retina-height” prisms with very high pixel density (the PPD, pixels per degree, is 58, while the Quest 2’s is 21).

Electrochromic lenses electrochromism is a property that allows some materials to change color when subjected to an electrical charge.

This principle has been applied to glasses so that, when necessary, we can pass information from an “immersive” mode to a “transparent” mode that focuses our vision on the real world as if we were not hungry with the glasses on.

Gesture control. Jun also explained how the wireless connectivity was low latency, less than 50ms, and paired with the cell phone via NFC.

He pointed out another interesting fact: the so-called Xiaomi AMBIENCE Gesture Control, which will be controlled by gestures that the user can make in the air and that the monocles detect through this interaction with the virtual objects that appear before their eyes.

It is not available for purchase (at least for now). Xiaomi has not provided any information on the availability or price of these augmented reality glasses.

And it's not clear whether these will be actual products on the market. Still, it's an interesting proposal from a manufacturer that hints at what we might see from its side in the coming months... or from its rivals.

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