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Intel Unveils "Vaunt" Smartglasses

posted by janrinok on Monday February 05 2018, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the eye-see-what-you-did-there dept.

takyon writes:

Intel is launching plain-looking smartglasses that beam a monochrome red image directly into your retina using a laser. There are no cameras on the device:

Intel has launched an impressively light, regular-looking set of smart glasses called Vaunt, confirming rumors from Bloomberg and others. Seen by The Verge, they have plastic frames and weigh under 50 grams, a bit more than regular eyeglasses but much less than Google Glass, for example. The electronics are crammed into the stems and control a very low-powered, class one laser that shines a red, monochrome 400 x 150 pixel image into your eye. Critically, the glasses contain no camera, eliminating the "big brother" vibe from Glass and other smart glasses.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday February 05 2018, @10:04PM (4 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday February 05 2018, @10:04PM (#633477) Journal

    At 400x150 pixels, the world would be pretty blocky. Of course the future holds better resolution.

    For me though, I must be getting old. I have zero interest in getting phone notifications right in my eyeball.

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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday February 05 2018, @10:21PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday February 05 2018, @10:21PM (#633487) Homepage

    It's where they end up anyway. Unless you get yours delivered in Morse code via vibration.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday February 05 2018, @11:21PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday February 05 2018, @11:21PM (#633527) Journal

    the world would be pretty blocky

    Watch out: creeper behind you!

    :)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @11:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @11:39PM (#633538)

    I have zero interest in getting phone notifications right in my eyeball.

    May i interest you in getting them left into your eyeball? 'Left there' as in 'permanently engraved there'.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday February 05 2018, @11:44PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday February 05 2018, @11:44PM (#633539)

    Same here, but.... at greater resolutions some pretty neat things are possible. That being said, it either requires a camera, sending very precise telemetry to Intel, or a very powerful localized mobile computer.

    I'd like to see augmented reality like that where a red path winds off into the horizon, and that's my hiking trail. Grab my wrist, and my vitals come up on the "screen".

    This looks like the start of something at least.

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