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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