http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/move-over-google-glass-here-comes-300-competition-from-france/
[quote]If French startup Optinvent is right, what we all really want is a bigger screen directly in front of our eyes. Sure, Google Glass may be the best-known example of a heads-up display, but Kayvan Mirza says that Glass simply doesn’t cut it.
Over breakfast at Blue Bottle Coffee on Wednesday, Optinvent’s CEO demonstrated a mockup of the company’s new ORA-S for Ars. Unlike Glass, the ORA-S, as currently designed, is a large and very industrial plastic pair of sunglasses with the viewing prism mounted directly in the field of view. Glass’ prism, by contrast, sits just above the natural line-of-sight and has no other lenses to get in the way.
“It’s much bigger in terms of display size than Google,” Mirza told Ars, noting that the ORS-A has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a field of view of 25 degrees. “It’s got three times the surface area. It’s much brighter and has higher resolution.”[/quote]
So in a nutshell, the ORA-S when compared to Glass is/has:
-Bigger display size
-16:9 aspect ratio
-FOV of 25 degrees
-3x the surface area
-Brighter
-Higher resolution
-Wights 70 grams (0.154 pounds/2.4 ounces)
Sure they may not look as stylish as Glass (as stylish as you can get with wearable computers anyways), but hey, it's a $300 competitor that looks like it can do way more than what Glass can do. Well done.
The first [u]developer version[/u] with an SDK is expected to come out in [b]December 2013 for around $950[/b]. The [u]consumer version[/u] will launch sometime in 2014 for around $300.
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Umm no. I'm already sketchy is glass will ever catch on. The big thing it has is that it is stylish (like you said as much as it can be). Those things from France. Just no.
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:o A £150-200 pair of AR glasses? Do want.
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