23 September 2014

ODG R-7 Android Smart Glasses

The first self-contained pair of wireless, head-worn smartglasses with 3D stereoscopic see-through HD displays comes from a group called Osterhout Design Group. They’re called the ODG R-7 glasses, and they run Android on a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. What makes these glasses different from Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR is their lack of a smartphone requirement. They’ve got everything they need right inside their own (relatively) small body.


This pair of glasses works with a Qualcomm 8084 2.7GHz quad-core SoC running with 4GB of RAM. It has between 16 and 128GB of data storage, and you’ll be working with a version of Android the company calls ReticleOS. This is an optimized Android framework made for head-worn computing - built on Android KitKat. Display resolution is 1280 x 720p at 100 frames per second, and again, they’re transparent so you can still see forward.

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