Samsung Imagine What Its First AR Glasses Would Look Like In These Leaked Concept Videos

Samsung has been toying with augmented reality glasses for years, most recently unveiling an extremely basic set of imaging glasses on the CES 2020 stage, but I’ve never seen the company suggest that it would like to build an augmented reality wearable computing. really ambitious. device – maybe until today.

WalkingCat, a fairly reliable source of device leaks, has posted two new concept videos showing some of the fun things a pair of “Samsung Glasses Lite” could do, such as projecting a giant virtual screen where you can play games, allowing you to relax in your private theater, giving you a giant virtual computer monitor, Activate a “glasses mode Sunlight “with auto-dimming or act as an instant first-person view display for your DJI drone, with telemetry.

The second video shows the very similar concept of “Samsung AR Glasses”, although this time it allows the user to “see” 3D digital objects that appear in the real world, an image that should be instantly familiar if you have ever seen one. of Microsoft’s HoloLens marketing.

However, if you’ve never tried Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap, you should know that the reality is a long way from the visualizations you see here. Today’s waveguides, lasers, projectors, and micromirror combinations generally give you a fairly small field of view with clear AR lenses like these. If you are standing next to a virtual computer monitor, you will only be able to see one part at a time; the rest will be out of your field of vision.

For me, the most interesting part of these videos is how Samsung envisions using a smartwatch to navigate the interfaces. In the short term, that might be more realistic than trying to tap on things that don’t really exist or gesturing in the air with your hands, and smartwatch control is a paradigm that other companies they work with are no doubt considering. AR headphones. Apple has a smartwatch and AR headset in development, of course, and Facebook’s hardware division that’s building AR lenses is reportedly now working on a smartwatch as well.

Speaking of Samsung and smartwatches, two well-known leakers are now saying that Samsung may go back to Android for its next smartwatch, rather than its own Tizen platform that has been used for watches for years.