TechCan these $350 smart glasses succeed where Google failed?Brilliant Labs' Frame more than meets the eyeWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Brilliant Labs' Frame more than meets the eye
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(Image credit: Brilliant Labs)
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While it’s extremely sophisticated, theApple Vision Prois also bulky and immersive rather than passive and unobtrusive, which is in stark contrast toGoogle Glass, which had some neat ideas before it was eventually shuttered.
However, a new entrant into the latter field is now on its way from Brilliant Labs. It is developing a pair of slimline smartglasses it’s calling Frame, and they look at lot like they’ll try to carry the torch that Google dropped.
The glasses look, for all the world, like regular specs, just a little chunkier and with two telltale bobbles at the end of their arms, which will rest behind your ears while you wear them.
These house the glasses' batteries, while their processors rest in the bridge above your nose. This will let the glasses offer up a heads-up display experience, with text and information displayed right in front of your eyes (or, in fact, one of your eyes, since it seems to only be on one side).
Frame will harness AI, apparently, to power responses to vocalised queries that you make, with on-board microphones to detect these, although it looks like this will be subject to some daily restrictions unless you subscribe to an as-yet unpriced subscription.
The glasses themselves do have a price, though, starting at $350 with international rates not announced. They’ll apparently release in April this year, which means they’re really not all that distant now.
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Still, time and hands-on experience will be the only way people can really tell if they work for them, and how well those AI features actually integrate into everyday life. They do at least have the capacity to house prescription lenses, so in theory these should be available to anyone who fancies a try.
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