This AR Accent Turns Your Dumb Glasses Right into a Google Glass Ripoff

Good glasses are form of an enormous factor this 12 months, and there are (final I checked) fairly a couple of pairs on the market in your consideration. However as many pairs of smart glasses as there are on the planet, there are infinitely extra common glasses which can be apparently simply ready to be sensible. Or at the least that’s the estimation of an organization that makes one small, very Google Glass-like XR accent.

The Guide01, a small glasses attachment out of Japan, is principally the e-bike conversion kit of sensible glasses and means that you can connect a small heads-up show (HUD) to the arm of your previous dumb glasses with the assistance of a mount. And with that tiny show, which notably makes your glasses look an terrible lot like Google Glass, you may see just about every thing you’d count on from one other pair of HUD-style glasses, together with turn-by-turn navigation, notifications like texts and emails, and readouts for climate and the date. There’s a small touchpad on the machine for controlling UI, and it makes use of Bluetooth to hook up with your cellphone, so you can too management it by way of a companion app. Naturally, there’s a microphone for voice controls, too, which is nice for anybody who hates tapping round on a tiny touchpad.

メガネにつけるだけで、いつものメガネがウェアラブル端末に早変わりする #GUIDE01 （ガイドワン） 視界の右上に小さいディスプレイが出てくる！新しい見え方！アプリを介して翻訳とかもできちゃう！#XRKaigi2025 pic.twitter.com/pQC57jw1jP

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Why would you utilize a tool like this versus a pair of devoted sensible glasses, you ask? Properly, most likely wouldn’t, however should you did, it’d most likely be due to the load. One of many main benefits of an answer like Guide01 is that it’s extremely gentle—on this case, simply 10g, which, for perspective, is a heck of quite a bit lighter than the Meta Ray-Ban Display’s 69g to 70g weight. Clearly, it’s important to add the load of your glasses to that too, however even when your frames weigh thrice as a lot because the Guide01, it nonetheless places the general whole beneath Meta’s show sensible glasses.

Regardless of being fairly small and light-weight, the Guide01 really has some fairly spectacular specs on paper. For one, the show is definitely full-color OLED, not a monochrome inexperienced LED like another light-weight glasses, together with Even Realities’ not too long ago launched Even G2 or these made by Rokid. The decision of the Guide01 is definitely not dangerous both whenever you evaluate it to the Meta Ray-Ban Show. It’s 624 x 405 in comparison with the Meta Ray-Ban Show’s 600 x 600 decision. It additionally has 1,200 nits of brightness, which is effectively under the Meta Ray-Ban Show’s 5,000 nits of max brightness, however ought to nonetheless be serviceable in direct daylight.

Regardless of the better-than-you’d-expect show, there’s one factor that looks like a evident drawback, although, and should you’ve used a pair of sensible glasses, you most likely already know what it’s. I’m speaking concerning the battery. The Guide01 apparently solely will get 90 minutes on a single cost, which is woefully brief. Concern not, although, the attachment comes with a wireless earbuds-like charging case that allows you to high the accent up on the fly… Clearly, this isn’t the answer should you’re in search of one thing with an all-day battery, however should you’re wanting to make use of a HUD in small doses, it might work. Perhaps? No less than it allegedly costs in 10 minutes.

ロボットストリートで #Guide01 が展示されていたので、
Ray-Ban StoriesとBose Frames Sopranoに標準の装着方法で装着できるか確認させてもらった
どちらも装着できた pic.twitter.com/Apvxtudoz3

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Whereas the Guide01 is a crowd-funded machine (which means you need to method it with warning), there are some prototypes floating in the true world, just like the one at this XR convention in Japan above, so it appears the machine is at the least possible and practical on paper. And in case you have been questioning, sure, you may connect this to your previous Ray-Ban Tales, apparently. The Guide01 prices 33,800 yen (about $218), however costs will rise because the crowdfunding progresses.