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Vuzix Announces Blade 2™ Smart Glasses Coming Next Month

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The glasses are designed “primarily for commercial use” and cost some $500 more than the initial model, but technology has come a long way and we look forward to seeing what this edition is capable of. Inputs include a touchpad, head-tracking, and full voice control. Under the Hood of the Blade 2. Blade 2 in the Vuzix Ecosystem.

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Vuzix Blade 2 AR Smart Glasses Review

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Tech specs include: 480 x 480 color display Wave guide protection technology 20-degree field of view Brightness of up to 2000 nits 24-bit color Available prescription inserts ANSI Z87.1 They’ve bene created mainly for enterprise use, providing frontline workers with access to critical data in a hands-free, heads-up display.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. We’ve also included an Android QR code library, so that apps can pair any Cardboard viewer without depending on the Cardboard app.”. We have to be patient.