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On September 8, Lenovo recently launched a Yoga smart glasses at the Berlin International Consumer Electronics Show. As Lenovo's first product for the consumer market, the smart glasses are mainly positioned as the next generation of wearable display products.

Yoga smart glasses have a high pixel density display, plug and play, and are compatible with most USB-C devices. At the same time, for privacy protection, the device can also protect the user's screen privacy by setting it to be visible only to the user.

▲ Yoga smart glasses

"Early smart glasses have been limited by content and their development cycle is relatively long. In the gaming field, VR / AR devices are also difficult to support 3A games. "Fang Xing, senior product manager of Yoga Smart Glasses R & D, said.

He feels that current display devices are difficult to meet users 'needs for large-screen displays. Smart glasses not only help users watch large screens anytime, anywhere, but also share video resources with mobile phones.

At Lenovo headquarters, Zhidong and a few media outlets experienced the product in advance, which has not yet been released in China. What's so mysterious about these smart glasses? Let's take a look together.

First, the use of BOE display screen, smart glasses to achieve the core device localization Yoga smart glasses shape design similar to sunglasses, through a data cable and other equipment connected.

The smart glasses are equipped with two Micro-OLED screens developed by BOE, which can achieve 1920×1080 resolution on micro screens.

Yoga smart glasses use Nedgar's free-form diamond AR optical solution, which allows users to get the visual effect of a 108-inch size TV at about 4 meters in the field of view. At present, Yoga smart glasses have three characteristics in the display field: high brightness, black purity and no light emission, and contrast ratio of 50000:1.

▲ Fang Xing, Senior Product Manager of Yoga Smart Glasses R & D

In addition, Lenovo is actively expanding the hardware adaptation space. Yoga smart glasses support USB-C interface, can support USB-C interface and DisplayPort (DP) protocol output PC, tablet computer, smart phone, game console, etc. In terms of battery life, Yoga smart glasses can be connected to mobile devices for streaming video or playing games for hours, according to reports.

Second, the wireless smart glasses form is still immature, AR lacks killer applications at the sharing meeting, in the face of recent smart glasses new products, Fang Xing believes that this is related to the maturity of the supply chain. "In the past, the technology and product yield were relatively low, the product price was relatively expensive, and the cost of the whole equipment was also high, which made it difficult to face the consumer market. "

However, as domestic players continue to break through technical bottlenecks, both optical modules and micro-displays have been able to achieve relatively stable mass production in China.

In addition, Fangxing also analyzed that as the number of players on the track increased, the cost of R & D investment by manufacturers gradually decreased, and the current cost of smart glasses was enough to support its consumer-oriented market.

▲ Yoga smart glasses display effect real shot

In terms of product form, Lenovo has repeatedly considered different product design directions, such as whether to adopt wired smart glasses design and whether to need a built-in operating system. Due to multiple factors, Lenovo ultimately wants smart glasses to focus on screen display and position Yoga smart glasses as the next generation of wearable display products.

"We haven't seen a killer AR content yet, and the AR content in the market is difficult to attract most users for a long time, so we still choose to focus on entertainment." "Fang Xing said when talking about the development direction of smart glasses.

In addition, he also said that wireless smart glasses still have certain technical bottlenecks, such as how large capacity and high density of batteries are integrated on smart glasses, and the current transmission rate is difficult to support smart glasses to display pictures stably.

Conclusion: Since the beginning of the rise of VR / AR industry, Lenovo has been continuously deployed in this field, and Yoga smart glasses are Lenovo's first step towards the consumer-grade smart glasses market. When laying out a new generation of products, Lenovo also relies on its advantages in the supply chain field and adopts localized optical modules and micro-displays to promote the localization of smart glasses equipment.

According to the recent trends of Qualcomm, Lenovo, Meta and other giant companies, the meta-universe is still one of the main themes of the industry in 2022. Among the new devices in the smart wearable direction, smart glasses have become one of the products that are most easily connected to the meta-universe device.

However, in the process of experience, we can clearly feel that the development of smart glasses is still in the early stage, and its key issues such as myopia adaptation, wired form, product weight, battery life and so on still need to be improved. In the field of entertainment viewing, it remains to be seen whether Lenovo Yoga smart glasses can seize the head market position.

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