Move aside Google Glass, because here's your $300 competitor from France

[TopWargamer]

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/move-over-google-glass-here-comes-300-competition-from-france/

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX98XNv8VL4

 

 

 

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.”

 

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 the same, if not more, than Glass at a much cheaper price. Well done. 

 

The first developer version with an SDK is expected to come out in December 2013 for around $950. The consumer version will launch sometime in 2014 for around $300.

[megadarkwood]

But.. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Matsy]

Looks even worse than glass...and thats saying something.

[nsyedhasan]

Yeah like mega said much more bulky.

[helping]

..you know these would be pretty nice with the same kind of tinted gunnar lenses with an OSD/HUD looking thingy for use on the computer

[miyabwah]

I would never talk to someone wearing that. It'd just be awkward and they'd be like "What's that on your face?"

Also, aren't things from France prone to breaking? (Peugeot, Renault, etc, etc.)

[Anult]

At least the French have tried to bring us something more affordable.

 

It has that going for it.

[Ryan Leech]

The ghetto Google Glass

[Dr3nz4r]

The ghetto Google Glass

also known as smartphone attatched to Sunglasses

[CyberneticTitan]

Looks much, much bulkier. 

 

We have yet to see Google Glass pricing though.

[Morpheus]

It's going to lose.

[TheSLSAMG]

I would never talk to someone wearing that. It'd just be awkward and they'd be like "What's that on your face?"

Also, aren't things from France prone to breaking? (Fiat, Peugeot, Renault, etc, etc.)

Fiat is Italian.

[miyabwah]

Fiat is Italian.

Oh............................................................................................

[AndyCapets]

Dear France,

 

I am dissapoint 'bout how bad it looks, but meh, who cares as long as it's cheap.

 

Best regards,

We French people who generally do "ok" looking stuff.

 

Edit: It's probably not gonna last long, just look at how bad our cars are.

[jbr]

Oh great, Hipster borg.

[cDNA]

Quite bulky indeed, im excited for version 2