After the presentation of the new smartphone series Xiaomi 13, the Chinese manufacturer, revolutionary and innovative smart glasses Mobile World Congress in 2023 Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Discovery Edition. The company presented a prototype with a particularly bizarre design, despite offering powerful, highly advanced hardware.

Definitely, Apple should take notes on first impressions One of the first to be able to test the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Discovery Edition prototype. However, although it is not yet a commercially available product, it should be accepted that its design is not the most beautiful in the world.

Although Xiaomi wears monkey silk…

Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass prototype has two micro LED displays

Most of the media agree on this. The design of this prototype of Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass is not optimal. Honestly, they seem like a kind of fusion between glass-bottom glasses and binoculars.

Xiaomi Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition has a lightweight yet sturdy design with magnesium-lithium alloy construction and carbon fiber materials. Its electrochromic lenses provide seamless access to reality and the virtual world with one click. pic.twitter.com/FWANebc4Gp

— Lei Jun (@leijun) February 27, 2023

While the smart glasses look stylish and futuristic in Xiaomi’s promotional images – how well it plays with lighting and shadows – when you put Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glass to a casual user, the reality is that the result is not as exciting as it seems. .

User testing new Xiaomi smart glasses | Image: XDA Developers

Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Discovery Edition has a very lightweight design, thanks to the use of materials such as: magnesium-lithium alloy, carbon fiber and electrochromic lenses. In fact, they only weigh 126 grams.

On the other hand, Xiaomi’s smart glasses were developed on the platform Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, which gives the device a very low wireless latency of only 3 ms. And they contain two screens micro LED up to maximum peak brightness 1,200 nits.

As for Apple, the company has been developing its own mixed reality headset for several years. According to the latest leaks about Apple glasses, Apple glasses will be possible. run iOS apps and that they will have small motors to adjust and adapt the lenses to the appropriate distance from each wearer’s pupils. In addition, they can have magsafe batteryA digital crownA H2-chip low latency, 120 degree viewing angle and would be done with aluminum, glass and carbon fiber. We wish and hope that its hardware is as advanced as the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Discovery Edition, but Apple please make its design completely different.