Nreal’s new AR sunglasses are made for binge watching TV
The Nreal Air smart glasses. | Image: Nreal Augmented reality company Nreal is launching a cheaper, iOS-compatible, more compact version of its smart glasses. The new Nreal Air glasses are supposed to ship starting in December 2021 across Japan, China, and South Korea. The price isn't set, but Nreal says they'll cost a fraction of the price" of its earlier Nreal Light glasses, which started selling for around $600 last year.
Based on Nreal's description, the new Nreal Air glasses have some core similarities with the Nreal Light glasses from 2020. Both are designed to look like relatively normal sunglasses and pitched as ideal for projecting a virtual big-screen display in front of your eyes. They're both using micro OLED displays for their augmented reality optics and are powered...