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Smartglasses: no camera, controlled from a ring (wired.com)
2 points by hyperpallium on Oct 30, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Weirdly difficult to find their website https://www.bynorth.com/

specs https://www.bynorth.com/tech Doesn't mention display resolution

Qualcomm APQ8009w https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-wear-3100-platf... "Snapdragon Wear 3100": quad A7, 1.2GHz (max), Adreno 304, 640x480 (max...)


The headline is answered by the header image: nope. The arms of those glasses are massive!


yeah, I would consider putting the guts in a lanyard or in a pocket (connected by wire if bluetooth isn't fast/bandwidthy enough). But the projector may be too big by itself anyway. Magic Leap considered a kind of fibre-optic cable.

Another approach is to target usages where bulky headhear is already acceptable, e.g. helmets (cycling, go-pro-like extreme sports, construction hard-hats etc), googles (welders, scuba, WWI aircraft).

I think that kind of application is where smartglasses are presently maturing.

I like the ring concept though, like nintendo switch joy-cons, but even tinier.




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