Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat
Nreal said it has raised $15 million and is unveiling its mixed reality (MR) smart glasses today at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
The company’s “ready-to-wear” mixed reality glasses are as lightweight as a pair of sunglasses and feature “stunning image quality,” said Chi Xu, CEO of Beijing-based Nreal, in an interview with VentureBeat.
Founded in January 2017, Nreal (which styles its name “nreal”) said it has created a consumer-focused design that favors comfort without sacrificing display quality. While competing products use a heavy goggle or helmet form factor with short battery lives, the Nreal Light weighs just 85 grams, or 3 ounces, only slightly heavier than a pair of sunglasses. They can be worn for hours at a time.
“We have a balance of good appearance and comfort,” said Xu.
The company said the Nreal Light enables accurate and realistic interactions between digital avatars and the real world, powered by its Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm, and only two onboard cameras.
The Nreal Light claims its display has a 52-degree field of view, 1080p resolution for vivid 3D graphics, and low latency, which, when combined with spatial sound, voice interactions, and haptic-feedback controllers with up to 3 degrees of freedom (DoF), offers an immersive mixed reality experience. That’s pretty high-end compared to other augmented reality (AR) glasses on the market, but…
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