It will be the last phase of distribution of these new AR glasses for developers, before becoming a commercial product.
Vuzix it is a manufacturer of augmented reality systems for companies, which already has two products on the market. With the M100 and M300 users could project content onto their traditional glasses from their mobile phone. Now come the Blade, which include the AR platform integrated into a frame with a design reminiscent of conventional sunglasses. It includes lenses, although they can be replaced if you need graduated lenses.
On the side of the mount are the gestural touchpad to introduce commands and some haptic actuators that will inform us by vibration near the ears. As well as the battery, a USB connector and another for headphones, in addition to a network card that supports WiFi and Bluetooth. In the front area is located the 8 megapixel camera, a microSD slot next to the main memory that incorporates an Android 6 installation and two microphones that will be used to record both voice commands and sound from the outside.
These smart glasses will leave the warehouse from November for customers who have purchased the Edge Developer Kit on your website for about 1100€. And it will offer them an SDK so that they can start designing the functionalities that will interact with the pocket devices and can be offered to the public in the future through the own App. The final consumer edition is scheduled for January 2019.