In Depth: First Look: Vuzix M100 smartglasses Great

In Depth: First Look: Vuzix M100 smartglasses

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While Google Glass may be the much better known face of wearable increased reality gadgets, Vuzix was on the show floor at CES 2014 flaunting the very first wise glasses offered to the public.

Called the Vuzix M100 is an Android-based wearable computer first made its look at CES 2013 as a product demo. Now with the M100 being somewhat closer to its last build and delivering to customers, we got a chance to go eyes-on with the heads-up display.

Looking through the M100

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Like the Google Glass, the Vuzix M100 provides users with a heads up display simply a couple of inches away from their eyeball. The essential distinction here being instead of forecasting info onto a clear eyepiece, Vuzix makes use of a mini 428 x 240 color-LCD.

On paper, taking a look at the M100’s miniature screen is akin to looking at a 4-inch mobile gadget from 14-inches away. In actual practice, the screen pops into the corner of our eye wrapped in a thin black frame that still lets us see plenty of our peripheral vision.

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The screen stays on and in view at all times, but we’d to glance over sometimes to focus in on any text that was on the display. It also takes a bit of setup time to extend the flexible arm the screen comes connected to and flex it into view. Entirely unlike Glass, which we can simply toss on and use.

Visual aesthetics aside, the Vuzix built up the M100 to be a standalone Android gadget total with a 1GHz OMAP4430 processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage.

Vuzix, Vuzix M100, Smartglasses, Wearable Tech, CES 2014

On top of the hardware, the computer headset we played around with came running Android Ice Cream Sandwich. A Vuzix speaker stated that they also plan on creating an icon based overlay that users can browse with motions recorded with a light sensing unit on the major body of the M100.

Limited build

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The demo M100 construct we our hands on with was extremely limited. On the trade convention floor Vuzix chose to disable the motion noticing light on the side along with all the buttons on the device itself. So rather of making use of the gadget ourselves, we got an assisted tour with an Android smartphone push-button control the optic over Wi-Fi.

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We were revealed two functions involving the video camera, among which directed a regular video feed originating from the M100’s 5-megapixel electronic camera, which can likewise stream video directly to a computer over Wi-Fi.

The other, on the other hand, was able to translate a sign from Italian to English and overlay the translation on top of the actual real-life object. Beyond these 2 functions, Vuzix hopes it and other developer will have the ability to develop better applications for down the line.

Vuzix, Vuzix M100, Smartglasses, Wearable Tech, CES 2014

A Vuzix speaker stated the M100 has a 600mAh battery that lasts eight hours on standby. This battery life, nevertheless, ends up being dramatically reduced to two hours when using hands-free calling mode and the screen at the same time. Thankfully it comes with a portable power pack that includes an added 3800mAh of power for 6.5 times more energy.

Very early verdict

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The Vuzix M100 develop has a lot of missing or still to be developed functionality and it’s a hardly a wise glass platform we can suggest considering its high $999.99 or ₤ 799.99 (about AUD$ 1112.71) cost. The majority of the M100 is still in progress, which is an embarassment considering it packs all the normal smartphone hardware, including gyroscopes, into small headset.

Perhaps a future, even more full build will be more tantalizing, however for now the Vuzix M100 is best left on the shelf for designers and resourceful industries that in fact have the budget plan to blow a marvelous on brand-new technologies.

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