What They Say
The Verge got its hands on Oppo’s Air Glass AR monocle after the company has shown some in the US, although it is not available to buy there, being sold just in China. The Verge classifies it as a ‘simple notification machine’. It has to be used with an Oppo smartphone.
The review found some of the software ‘clunky’ and one reviewer found that the fact that it was monocular caused discomfort, quoting an Oppo spokesperson and AR maven, Karl Guttag, who told the blog:
“You may be getting a conflict between one eye focused at infinity and the other eye focused on the real world,”
Still, the review found the device “weirdly cool”.
What We Think
Managing to convince early adopters that a device is in some way ‘cool’ is a key step to establishing the category in consumer applications. Nobody wants to be referred to in the way that Google Glass users were! (BR)
