Interesting sneak peek of Vaunt, Intel's new smart glasses

Andrea James 4:30 am Thu Feb 8, 2018

With Vaunt, Intel is taking steps toward solving the Glasshole paradox: how to get consumers to wear wearables that don't make wearers seem like bad clichés of wearable users.

If you look in his right eye in the still above, you can see the red display just below his line of sight. Via The Verge:

Like Google Glass did five years ago, Vaunt will launch an “early access program” for developers later this year. But Intel’s goals are different than Google’s. Instead of trying to convince us we could change our lives for a head-worn display, Intel is trying to change the head-worn display to fit our lives.

Google Glass, and the Glassholes who came with it, gave head-worn displays a bad reputation. HoloLens is aiming for a full, high-end AR experience that literally puts a Windows PC on your head. Magic Leap puts an entire computer on your hip, plus its headset is a set of goggles that look like they belong in a Vin Diesel movie.

• Exclusive: Intel's new smart glasses hands-on (YouTube / The Verge)

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