The View

A pair of hi-tech glasses superimposed computer graphics over real-world view as One of The Most vaunted products of this year's CES tech expo.

Nreal, the Chinese start-up has involved, confused produced the expectations of many industry observers with the quality of the images and its Lightweight glasses.

The Firm is still left with questions.

A tester said: the glasses looked a bit "clunky", and The Company is sued, the Magic Leap , a rival.

the CES-participants Ben Wood , an influential But long-time tech consultant, declared the "product of The Show ".

"for years, people over-promised and not delivered, on Augmented Reality glasses," the CCS Insight analyst, told the BBC.

"seem Nreal to have a quiet have with the delivery of the goods, and are now set to ship by The Middle of the year.

"I'm not gong to claim that the glasses will be for everyone's Taste - this is still a first generation product. But they are much closer to a normal pair of sunglasses than some of The Other bulky smart glasses, which I have seen, and they definitely offer The Best experience of Augmented Reality glasses at CES. "

to have The Other , praises The Device .

Nreal Light glasses you need a wired connection to an Android phone and come up with their own touchpad controller.

the images produced by The Device to two displays - One for each Eye - Cover a 52 degree horizontal field of view (fov).

this means That only part of the Cover , the 135-degree field of view (fov, in General, for the people - But not so, in a relatively sharp resolution of 1080p.

In addition, sensors to track the Eye movements as well as the 3D mapping of The View in front of you, so that digital characters and objects can be seen to interact with The Environment .

microphones and speakers are also installed in the frame. And user control over objects in The View of what looks Like a curved laser pointer.

Demos on Show at the expo, a zombie-shooter-video-game, so that a simulated video call, and YouTube videos.

The glasses can also display the standard Android-apps place multiple in-sight at the same time, allow the carrier to switch your view from One to The Other

Many in the tech industry believe that Augmented Reality for the mass launch later in this Decade .

"Instead of devices, you take us away from the people around us, the next platform will help us more in the present with each other,"

"although some of the early devices seem clunky, I think this has to be The Most human, and social technology platforms. "

But other companies have struggled to crack the market.

Seven years ago, the Google glass has been pitched as a consumer product, But the tech giant used its goals glasses in factories and other companies.

Magic Leap its much-anticipated mixed-reality headset on sale to The Public in August 2017, after raising More Than $2. 3 billion (£2bn) in investment.

suggested But a report last month that it sold only, and it also recently shifted its focus towards sales to industrial customers.

Microsoft's HoloLens as the Nreal main competitors.

the second-generation product has a 70 degree fov and it works on a standalone computer. But it is considerably bulkier and much more expensive than The Light glasses.

Nreal says it wants to sell its glasses for $499. However, HoloLens 2 cost $3,500, and The Magic -Leap-1 $2,295.

By Zoe Kleinman reporting from Las Vegas

I had a quick play with NLife's glasses. 88g (0 weigh-in. 19lb), they sat heavy on The Bridge of the nose, But that was nothing compared with the clunkiness of an augmented-reality Headsets such as the Microsoft HoloLens.

I was a zombie shooting game to play and it took a few minutes to correlate that to control the smartphone, with what happened in front of my eyes. It reminded me of the early days of the Nintendo Wii, if gestures do not always give the expected result.

The Game was fun and The Field of view was wide, But it turns out, I'm good at shooting AR zombies. I would be interested to see how the glasses handle more realistic scenarios, because it was a little stuttery.

I was told that it is a virtual home was established, and also to try a fashion app, in collaboration with the fashion label Joseph.

Beijing Nreal a partnership with the chip manufacturer Qualcomm, a mobile network owned by LG your product.

The start-up was only founded in the year 2017, and says it could come so far so quickly thanks to a strategy of not trying to pack too much tech in the wearable itself.

"We have found that The Best way to get people to adopt this technique was essentially the Integration of these mixed-reality glasses, the with the devices you already have in your hands, your smartphones," explains the spokesman Francis Bea.

"the phone-kit consists essentially of the processor.

"There are compromises you make, But make sure that we are means to be able to keep this form Factor - Like sunglasses - that people do not feel unpleasant or uncomfortable. "

Before Nreal creation, chief executive, Chi Xu worked in Magic Leap for about a year.

Seven months ago, Magic Leap is accused of his ex-employees to steal some of their tech and designing devices that were "strikingly similar" to their own.

In December Nreal denied the accusations and turned to reach for a request for termination of the proceeding.

"We still have not really wanted to kind of dwell on the issues," Mr. Bea said of the BBC.

But in the long term, other tech it-companies, pose a greater threat.

Samsung is a concept used pair of Augmented Reality glasses, at its CES press conference, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the technology has the potential.

"because of the interest of the big players in the smart glasses space, I think there is a high probability Nreal is the target of a takeover, if they deliver on their promises," said Mr Wood .

Source of news: bbc.com