Only mature technology can be pushed to the mass market

Absrtact: Only mature technology can be pushed to the mass market. But only with the passage of time, the cost of hardware down, this technology can form the application of large-scale, into the public. Compared with more than 10,000 people who have booked Google Glass, they are still

Only mature technology can be pushed to the mass market. But only with the passage of time, the cost of hardware down, this technology can form the application of large-scale, into the public.

With more than 10,000 people booking Google Glass, the Kickstar-funded meta glass is slightly colder on the heat, but does not prevent it from becoming a hot-talk among a handful of geeks.

Change the way people interact with data

The biggest difference between Meta glass and Google Glass is that this is an AR (Augmented reality technology) +kinect (body-sensing) glasses. It focuses on the integration of reality and the virtual world, but also worth mentioning is that it can make data visualization, 3D, directly through the sense of body control.

This means that the glasses change the way people interact with data. To make the data a flat, boring image, but more stereoscopic, intuitive use of human.

Tencent Technology has learned that the Meta glass structure consists of two 3D lenses, a deep camera (3D camera) for detecting gestures and a small Kinect in a frame. Although this looks rather "heavy" glasses, far less than Google Glass fashion, lightweight, but "content" is cool enough to make people eager. meta.01 is still in its early days, but it does not prevent it from opening the SDK to developers to develop applications.

"Computing should be more natural and interactive. Before long, we'll laugh at ourselves squinting at our small-screen pad. "Meta Glass CEO Meron Gribetz Even bluntly, meta is the next mouse keyboard and remote.

As early as a year ago, the Meta Glass had started raising money in Kickstar, initially raising $100,000 trillion, and finally raising 200,000 dollars. And Kickstarter, angel investors and the Silicon Valley start-up incubator Y Combinator received funding, the first batch of $700 of meta 1 glasses sold in September this year.

Cost reduction for AR glasses mass application

James is a researcher of the Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been engaged in image pattern recognition, augmented reality and other areas of research. In his view, Meta glass is not a novelty, its technical principle is very mature.

James to Tencent Technology, the glasses in the middle of the Kinect device, can obtain the user's hand coordinates, while the AR virtual world also has the coordinates of objects, the two coordinate systems through the software to match, users can crawl through the hands of the virtual world objects.

In the existing video, we can see the user wearing meta glass, can shape the vase in the virtual world, and placed in the physical world of a display shelf space. This application was put into use in 2000.

"Similar equipment came out at that time, and it was a popular thing in the circle, but it was too expensive, hundreds of thousands of dollars." "James to Tencent Technology, when the equipment designed to shape the helmet, with the identification of physical coordinates of gloves, you can crawl objects in the virtual world, such as the house furniture."

The prototype of the device James is talking about is the deep camera. Tencent Science and technology learned that the depth of the camera based on two principles, a time-of-fight principle, that is, by measuring the photon emission, return time between the calculation of the distance, and the other is through the structure of light coding, projection a known infrared mode to the scene, The distance is measured by the pattern deformation of the cable recorded on the IR CMOS camera.

As a newly developed distance measuring hardware, it is not only different from the 3D system, but also has a full range of view field, which can meet the Gaocheng image speed of real-time distance measurement. This has been used in medical, security and other professional areas of equipment, with Microsoft Kinect Gaming machine Popular, the cost continues to decline.

"Now it's about hundreds of thousands of yuan." James believes that both AR technology and deep cameras are mature technologies. But only the cost of hardware is falling, can make technology application more popular. "In the future, this technology will be used more widely in wearable devices." ”

In this way, Meta Glass is now priced at $700 trillion, which has made this once-expensive technology go public, and it's certainly cheaper than the $1500 Google Glass.