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Edited by TopWargamer: 10/24/2013 11:32:06 PM
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Move aside Google Glass, here's your $300 competitor from France

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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