After Xiaomi and Honor dominated headlines on day 1 of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 held in Barcelona, Oppo stole the spotlight on day 2 with Oppo Air Glass 3, its latest Extended reality (XR) glasses prototype. Smart glasses, in contrast to AR headsets and visors, aim for a design that ideally should be indistinguishable from regular glasses.
Naturally, it’s not a process which is easily achievable, especially when adding powerful computing hardware to sophisticated optics. However, with Oppo Air Glass 3, the tech giant hopes to bring smart assistant functionality, especially voice and speech recognition, albeit via a companion smartphone required for cross-device collaboration.
For example, Oppo Air Glass 3 may look like an ordinary pair of glasses, but it connects to Oppo smartphones to access the company’s AndesGPT LLM. After connecting the glasses and your device, it offers XR so users can see information, images and video through the glasses like other glasses. However, Oppo is instead focusing on assisted reality, emphasising productivity over entertainment.
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Key Things to Know About the Oppo Air Glass 3
Design
Following up on the previous model revealed at last year’s MWC, the Oppo Air Glass 3 emphasises Oppo’s claim of the world’s lightest binocular full-colour glasses at only 50g. According to the tech giant, the Oppo Air Glass 3 will ensure an experience close to that of a regular pair of glasses while also providing the best full-colour display compared to the market.
For example, Oppo has made a lot of tech advancements to thin out the frame, but you can still clearly see the virtual information even in bright environments with its 1,000 nits Spark micro projector.
Lastly, with its ultra-thin waveguide with a refractive index of 1.70 — very close to the 1.5 index of glass, you won’t get the rainbow-like patterns often seen on optical see-through displays like these.
AI-Features
Besides its lightweight design, the main attractiveness of the Oppo Air Glass 3 is its new AI features. Firstly, Oppo is bringing a new voice assistant AI, working on its own AndesGPT large language model. However, as mentioned above, the AI is not on the glasses themselves, as you need to be paired to the app on a smartphone to interact with it.
To make up for it, Oppo claimed the multimodal AI tech in the Oppo Air Glass 3 will be able to “understand various data types, including text, images, video, and audio. Moreover, the multimodal AI technology is able to process and interpret more complex user scenarios, unlocking new potential in user interactions, such as voice and visual.”
For instance, there are touch panels on each arm to navigate the device along with built-in speakers that aim the sound directly towards the user’s ear, and it can take over many of the functions of your smartphone, including answering calls, browsing images, music playback, and colour image browsing. In future enhancements, Oppo plans to add a teleprompter, navigation, timer, translation, and health and fitness information for the Oppo Air Glass 3.
Oppo Air Glass 3 Looks Similar to Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
The new product reminds us of Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses which have more or less functionalities. The addition and deeper integration of generative AI hint at what to expect from smart wearables in the future. The form factor makes it more plausible for general consumers to use than just appealing to the niche. Moreover, the popularity of products like Vision Pro add more fuel to fire. More choices are anyway good for the market as well as end users.
In closing, to improve privacy and quality of user experience, Oppo is utilising “reverse sound field technology” in its Oppo Air Glass 3. As for what it is, the tech giant claimed it is “an open acoustic design with four microphones and other innovations that improve noise isolation to deliver high audio quality and enhanced privacy protection.”
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Oppo Is Returning to Europe in Full Force
Although the Oppo Air Glass 3 is merely a prototype and is only available in China, Oppo has brought massive news to its European fans as the tech giant stated their services are returning to Europe following the resolution of a patent dispute with Nokia.
In a press release, the company announced: “On January 24, 2024, OPPO reached a global patent cross-licensing agreement with Nokia covering standard-essential patents in 5G and other cellular communication technologies. Following the agreement, both parties will resolve all pending litigation in all jurisdictions. The specific terms of the agreement are confidential as per mutual agreement. As part of its long-term commitment to the European market, OPPO today addressed that their products will once again be widely available across Europe.”
It is a massive booster for the tech giant as they have also recently launched an AI centre, which will look at ways to integrate AI with AR and XR, hoping to empower all its products, especially its smartphones, with these features.
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