About: Meta, a company with an appropriate name, has been quietly slaving away on their Meta.01 augmented reality specs. Their labors have finally begun to bear fruit, as these sweet shades are just about available for consumer purchase. What’s so cool about them? Well, they not only augment reality but allow you to participate in said augmented reality in real time. For example, you can wear them to type on a virtual keyboard right in the air or grab and move digital objects with your hands. Think of it as a pair of high-tech eyeglasses combined with the camera-tech of the Kinect sensor. It’s the best of both worlds, as it were. Plus they look like pair of old school Oakleys!
META Space Glasses Specs and Info…
Device: META Space Glasses, (META.01), (MetaPro)
Manufacturer: Atheer Labs
Announced Date: August 2013
Release Date: Not Yet Released
Launch Price: $1000 (£738)
Device Type: AR Smartglasses
Display: Unknown
Diagonal Field of View(FOV): 35°
Refresh Rate: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
CPU: Intel i5 CPU
GPU: Unknown
Battery: Unknown
Tracking: 3 DoF Non-positional (Gyroscope Based)
Controllers: N/A
Our Thoughts: META Space Glasses (META.01) are Google Glass on steroids. Already at a development kit stage META Space Glasses is a see-through display that allow users to see, create and interact with digital objects shown in physical space. Or as we like to call it an augmented reality.
Meta’s SDK has attracted over a thousand development groups who are building gaming and professional applications in the areas of medical simulation, data visualization, architectural visualization and industrial design. This means they are working more towards the software than the hardware that is already a proven technology. Let’s face it, we all know this is going to be the future, it’s just a matter of when.
Sources used…
- https://crunchwear.com/meta-01-are-some-snazzy-albeit-expensive-augmented-reality-glasses/