220+ XR Devices from 85+ brands
The Growing List of XR Devices
When it comes to XR devices, a few names come in our minds. Let’s see the XR devices in addition to the devices from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Sony, or Samsung. The list is growing.
Last updated on : Nov 2021
In my earlier article, I have explained the fundamentals of XR and the type of XR and the popular devices in those XR types. ARVR is not the only about Head-Mounted Display(HMD) devices. There is an ever-growing list of Google ARCore supported smartphones/tablets and ARKit is being supported in recent Apple phones. But still, when when it comes to AR and VR devices, the first thing that comes in mind is head-mounted display devices (HMD), however, the newer mobile phones/tablets are now coming with AR/VR support with a minimal set of tools attached.
Similarly, when it comes to ARVR Headsets, only a few names come in our mind, like Google Glass, Microsoft Hololens, MagicLeap, Oculus, GearVR, but the list is really big and growing fast. CES 2020, CES 2021, AWE2021 has seen many new entrants in the segment. In this article, I am trying to curate a list of XR device manufacturers and the devices they have produced so far, and producing in the near future. I am not categorizing the list in AR, VR, or MR but it just the XR.
Here is the list of 85+ manufacturers along with their 220+ XR devices.
3Glasses
3Glasses manufacturers following XR devices:
3Glasses X1 Suite is a consumer-grade ultrathin VR glasses. It comes with HMD, a controller and a shoulder-mounted compute unit. It is compatible with the smart-phone as well as PC, HMD is less than 150g.
3Glasses Blubur S2 is a window based mixed reality device. Integrated with Cortana, and thousands of Microsoft Store apps are accessible on it. It has a 90° FOV. It needs to be connected with windows 10 PC. The goggles can be flipped to switch a virtual and physical reality.
ACER
ACER AH101, is a Mixed Reality headset manufactured based on Microsoft Windows reference MR architecture. 100° FOV, and comes with 6DOF controllers and haptic feedback.
OJO 500 is a current active product from Acer, with detachable and swappable design, auto IPD calibration, and based on Microsoft Windows reference MR architecture,
Ajna Lens
An Indian Startup Ajna Lens brings AI powered Augmented Reality Glasses AjnaTX Glasses that popular with use cases of scan large groups of people from 3 metres distance and detect potential COVID-19 carriers within seconds.
It also comes with AjnaBolt, military grade AI powered Mixed Reality Glasses, and AjnaLite for AR and VR use case with 60 FOV°.
You may also look at XR marketplace — https://www.xrbazaar.in/ or contact Eddie Avil to buy these devices.
Now they claims India’s first enterprise grade AR glasse AjnaX, integrated with ajnasuite platform. It comes with 52° FOV and 200 inch immersive display, it can extend your PC screen with USB-C connector, and can be connected to bluetooth mouse and keyboard for easy inputs.
Am Glasses
Hong Kong based Am Glasses, brings a beautiful slick smart glass concept, similar to NReal. It comes with 52° FOV, 4GB of RAM, a great 4700mAh battery power, offers 6DOF and SLAM capability in the device.
Alcatel
Alcatel came with a standalone VR headset — Alcatel Vision. It was an all in one headset with octa-core processors, and 32GB memory space, 120° FOV, and good battery. It was expected to be launched in a $600 price tag, however, We haven't heard much on this after 2016.
Amazon
Amazon launched Echo Frames smart glasses, integrated with Amazon Alexa, at an introductory price of $179. This does not have any XR display, but extent reality with Voice inputs. Home future versions will have an XR display as well.
Another interesting device from Amazon Glow, that provide immersive projection based interaction while on video call.
Apple Inc.
Apple does not need introduction, XR world is looking for that apple moment to happen. iPhone 12, brings the Lidar capability in phone, and smart glass from apple supposed to by 2022, deals like this, showing more weightage to the AR path.
Apple looks like still waiting for other to fail, and then comes with some interesting ways and say to the world “This is how it is done”
Aryzon
The Netherlands based Aryzon comes with the world's first affordable Augmented Reality Headset on volumetric display based technology. Aryzon Pop-up is like Google Cardboard for AR, it is good for a few minutes of AR experience, but Aryzon Original is more durable and comfortable.
These range from $15 to $40. Nothing can be better than this at this price. FOV is also slightly better than HoloLens 1.
You can now get 3D printed glasses here —
ASUS
ASUS HC 102, is a Mixed Reality headset manufactured based on Microsoft Windows reference MR architecture. 90° FOV, and comes with two 6DOF controllers. ASUS produces great VR ready PCs for high-quality graphics rendering. I don’t see active development from Asus on XR devices.
Avegant
Avegant has a Video Headset device, which provides an immersive video viewing experience. This product won the innovation award in CES 2017.
BOBOVR
BOBOVR is a china-based company that comes with multiple VR headsets from standalone VR to mobile phone VR.
BOSCH
Bosch announced smart glasses named Light Drive BML500, projects bright and clear display on see-thru glasses. It has 15° FOV, and weighs less than 10g.
Campfire
Campfire is building headset that allow both AR and VR together with 92° Diagonal FOV. Designed for collaboration for design. Comes with controllers with mobile phones. Comes Campfire Scenes for collaborations with desktop, a console that simulates monitor. Early access is available now, and commercially be available 2022. More info at https://campfire3d.com/
Canon
Japanese tech giant Canan unveils its next-gen enterprise-focused AR Headset MD-20, which is an improved version of existing MD-10. It is supposed to have 70° (horizontal) × 40° (vertical) FOV.
Canan has also showcased a strapless VR concept in 2015. and also demoed the Mixed Reality concept in the way back 2010.
Recently canon comes up with fisheye glasses for 3D video recording. It works with Canon’s EOS R5 camera and has on 8K video capability. When shooting, it projects two circular images onto the camera’s 45-megapixel sensor. It supports 190-degree capture, allowing for delivery of stereoscopic 180-degree 3D footage or photos at up to 8,192 x 4,096 (8K) resolution for AR or VR applications.
Carl Zeiss
Another optics maker realized the potential of XR. Carl Zeiss tried producing Mobile VR headset VROne at $99.
DAQRI
DAQRI Smart Glasses comes with powerful Intel Core M7 CPU, a VPU, 6DOF tracking, 5800mAh battery, 64GB SSD, and good 44° FOV. It comes with WORKSENSE™ to run AR tasks in an enterprise environment.
Dell
Dell Visor was the first Mixed Reality headset manufactured based on Microsoft’s reference MR architecture. It did not really go well and no more in the market. Dell is trying to sell VR Ready PCs, I don’t they are in the XR market now.
DIGILENS
DIGILENS announced the “Visualize”, the hardware development framework that combines DigiLens optical technologies with the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform. It brings a smart glass named Design v1, which is based on the AOSP/OpenXR, and comes with Octa-core CPU, 6GB RAM, 128 GB flash storage, daylight bright display, module design, best in class FOV 24.51º (v), 43.58º (h), 50º (d).
See here.
DLODLO
DLODLO has a number of XR devices concepts from normal-looking glasses to VR devices. Please refer to the below website for the details.
DPVR
DPVR is a quite popular brand in China, thanks to TonyVT SkarredGhost for pointing this out.
They have interesting product lines to 4K personal cinema experiences.
Features ranging from 100º FOV, Cristal clear display, VIVEPort integrated, Compatible SteamVR, and 6DOF devices. Explore her
Epson
Epson is producing XR devices from quite some time, current selling following two XR devices.
Moverio BT-300 — lightweight smart glass with HD display, 5MP camera, Quad code CPU, 2GB RAM, and 23 ° (Diagonal) FOV, built-in GPS. and the weight is just 69g.
Moverio BT-350 — this is one of the enterprise-ready devices with MDM integrations and multi-user management for the device. specifications are almost the same as BT-300.
Everysight
Everysight from Israel produces smart glasses Raptor designed for cycling. This product won the innovation award at CES 2019. It comes in 32GB ($799) and 16GB($699). It projects realtime information for a cyclist, helps them balance the body postures, and record the views on simple commands.
Facebook’s Oculus XR devices are the most popular devices to date in the VR segment. It released multiple versions of the devices in the past, and now the following 3 devices are quite active.
Oculus Rift S — is a PC powered VR device with powerful touch controllers. It has inbuilt room-scale 6DOF tracking. Go and harness the power of VR Ready PCs. It is at $399
Oculus Quest — is the most complete standalone VR device at this stage. It comes with 64GB ($399) and 128 GB($499) variants. It is a 6DOF device with powerful graphics capability. It comes with very accurate controllers, and recently they started supporting hard tracking, which makes this device a much powerful for the industrial use-cases along with consumer applications.
Oculus Go — is another popular standalone VR device from Facebook, 32 GB is at $149 and 64GB variant at $199, This device is very good for viewing experience. It is a 3DOF device.
Now facebook comes with normal looking smart glasses with Rayban. Refer to Rayban section.
GameFace Labs (GFL)
The US-based GFL introduces an Android-based VR development platform at $599, targeted to be a cross-platform VR solution. It will be powered by NVIDIA Jetson TX2, 8GB RAM, 32GB storage, and comes with 6DOF controllers.
Google has multiple XR product lines. Google has played a vital role in making the industry accept that smart glass is a concept that will fly high. Let’s different investments of Google in XR.
Google cardboard is a step toward taking the VR in the consumer’s hand in just $5, now there are a number of VR Boxes manufacturers out there who are producing cardboard-like product in a nice plastic cover, but that too under 30$. The smartphone-based VR is now a norm and a lot of applications and solutions are being built on this concept. Google Daydream is another effort to making the smartphone VR successful. Google has also build standalone VR using Daydream with Lenovo.
Google Glass — Google has released Google Glass 1, in 2013, for consumers. This technology piece was much ahead of time. Some say the Glass 1 was a failed product, but I must say it was the most successful one, as it has created a wave, and inspired others to build smart glasses. Its revised version Google Glass 2 (Enterprise Edition), is targeted for enterprises, and this product gained good success. It is a plain android based, lightweight device. Very useful for assisted reality use-cases.
Google Tango/ARCore — Google had launched the Google Tango project, which is a phone with a depth-sensing capability with IMU, and SDK to build applications. Later Tango project was stopped and rebranded/enhanced as ARCore. Now ARCore is the base for Smartphone-based AR use cases.
Google recently acquired North, see section North for more details.
Helmet Vision
The UK-based Helmet Vision brings a standalone VR device Helmet Vision Fly at a competitive price of $279. It has the comfortable design and foldable immersive speakers, supports 4K video playback with 110° FOV.
HP
I found multiple products from HP in XR, here is the list.
HP Windows Headset — HP is building Windows Mixed Reality Headset, based on Microsoft Windows reference MR architecture. It would be expected to be 95° FOV connected with Windows 10 PC. No further information available on it yet, and I see the other two products form HP. See next.
HP Reverb G2 — a VR headset developed in collaboration with Valve and Microsoft. Automatic IPD adjustment, and comfortable adjustable designs. It is based on Windows Mixed Reality reference architecture. It comes with two controllers, it is the range of $600, I feel it is costly in the segment.
HP VR Backpack — Along with VR ready laptops and PCs, HP produces a wearable VR backpack, for super-smooth frame rates, and ultra-fast render times. It packed with 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor and NVIDIA RTX™ GPU. It keeps the processing power out of the VR device.
HTC
HTC Corporation has strong VR product lines Vive, they now have multiple VR headsets ranging from $750 to $1500. They have their own play store VivePort.
Vive Cosmos Elite Headset comes with 110° FOV, tethered with good Window 10 VR Ready PC. Vive Cosmos Headset with two additional 6DOF tracking controllers. VIVE Pro McLaren is the best in the class VR system.
Vive Pro 2 is latest available now, 5K display, 120° FOV, high quality audio and best in class tethered one.
Latest in the rage coming up is Vive Focus 3, with 120° FOV, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ XR2, hot swappable battery, 4 tracking cameras, and more.
Very recently some leaked pictures show the upcoming VR headset. Let’s see.
Huawei
Huawei has released at devkit version for Huawei VR glasses 6DOF devkit, this looks a lightweight VR glasses, it is tethered with a mobile phone. 1600 x 1600 pixels per eye resolution and 90°
Intel
Intel acquired a smart glass manufacturer Recon Instruments in 2015. Recon produced it’s the first heads up display for sports in 2010, much before then Google Glass. and produced the Recon Jet™ Smart Glasses series until its closure. Now Intel discontinued support for the Recon Jet series. These glasses are still available on Amazon as GPS capable sports equipment.
Iristick
The US-based Iristick comes with 3 variants of XR Device (Iristick.Z1 Premium, Essentials, and Basics). These devices come with 13° FOV (84° diagonal), and full HD display and a different set of software services.
Julbo
Julbo EVAD-1 is designed for supports data head up display, watch here
Kura
Kura Technologies comes with 150° FOV AR Glasses, here is an interview with CEO. It is claimed to be the best in class 8K resolution per eye, 120Hz frame rates adjustable to situations, 6DOF, eye tracking and more
LatinAR
LatinAR Inc. brings normal-looking smart glasses, with their patented PinMR™ optic lenses technology. It provides great colors and expanded Depth of Field. They won the Best Headworn Device award at AWE Online 2020.
Lenovo
Lenovo manufactures multiple XR devices and platforms to support XR devices.
Lenovo Mirage Solo — was a first Standalone VR device with Google Daydream, WorldSense™ technology. It comes with Mirage Camera for VR content capturing capability. It has 90° FOV, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, and 6DOF camera scanning comes with a 3DOF controller. This came at $400 price tag, double than that of Oculus Go. Looks like Lenovo stopped it’s production, not sure, why Lenovo website still says it is coming soon.
Lenovo Explorer— Just like HP, Dell, Asus, and Acer, Lenovo also comes with a Mixed Reality headset manufactured based on Microsoft Windows reference MR architecture. It has 110° FOV and it comes with motion controllers but can also work with the Xbox controller.
Lenovo ThinkReality A6- is an enterprise Mixed Reality Device, quite powerful device running on an Android-based compute box, and comes with a Bluetooth controller. It has a 40° FOV and HD quality display, and 6DOF capability, and support for gesture-based input. It comes with a ThinkReality SDK for Unity and ThinkReality Cloud Platform. It is really a good fit for enterprise use cases. There is active development on A6, hope to see a much better device in the future.
Lenovo Lightweight AR Glasses — Lenovo recently revealed intention toward building slick AR glasses, they are expected to small enough to carry anywhere and wear, and access the workstations from these devices from anywhere. Stay tuned future is bright!
Lenovo Mirage VR S3 — All in one VR headset, built-in collaboration with Pico headset.
Lenovo ThinkReality A3 — the most versatile enterprise smart glass designed as of now, it is presented at CES 2021, see here for more details. In addition to AR use cases, it can be connected wide range ThinkPad PCs and user can customize as multiple virtual monitors for different applications. It can able be tethered with Motorola’s new moto g100 marks, and can bring 2D apps in 3D experience. It is under $1500 range. It is a less than 130g normal looking smart glasses.
Lynx — R
French startup announced Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset last year, The standalone headset, which is capable of both VR and pass-through AR.
Mad Gaze
Hongkong based Mad Gaze, brings multiple smart glasses for different XR needs of consumer and enterprise segment.
Glow Plus is a normal looking glass and comes in 6 different colors. It has 53° FOV, full HD display, voice and hand gesture input, good IMU. Just 98g headset, tethered with Android and iOS.
Glow is also similar to Glow Plus but lessor FOV (45°) and display quality.
Vader is a normal looking XR device, with 45° FOV, SLAM capability, android OS and Quad-Core CPU. Multi-touch panel, Hand gestures, and Voice input support.
X5 is the smallest XR device that may be plugged on any normal glass. It runs on Android 6, Quad-Core CPU, and has 8MP Camera and 32 GB storage.
Ares is a similar device to the Google Glass, it runs on Android 4.2.2, and has 4G internal storage, 5MP camera, trackpad, and support voice command based control.
Magic Leap
Magic Leap is there for quite some time, I think it is still the most funded startups in the XR industry. They have an XR device Magic Leap One, that has great capabilities of environment detection, and a good 50° of FOV. It comes with a wired compute unit and a controller. It puts less load on the head but wiring around the body does not feel good. Display and Color are really great.
It has SDK support for popular development platforms. It comes at a lesser price $2300 as compared to Hololens, so it was an option for the enterprises to go with it. Looking for its next version.
And now we have some information on the next version Magic Leap 2, it will be smarter and sleeker, 20% lighter (250g), would have twice the FOV (100°-153° around), and have better performance than ML1.
Meta
Meta was popular for its product Meta 2, which has a much bigger FOV 90° + at that time, and good hardware capability, a windows-based device. The device looks big but was still a comfortable device.
Later this startup was mysteriously sold to an unknown company and a later some news was there that was acquired by MetaView. It is not clear if they are still producing the device.
Mi
Mi VR is a VR box for Mi compatible phones. It has good 103° FOV, it comes with somatosensory remote to control the device.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a pioneer in Mixed Reality devices and produces the most popular MR device Hololens. Microsoft launched HoloLens 1.0 in 2016 and at that time the device is was much ahead of time, a 6DOF standalone device with capabilities of environment detection, gesture-based input, and more.
HoloLens 2 is a much-improved version runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 chipset, with inbuilt eye-tracking and hand tracking. the iris scanner, and support for natural gestures. They have improved FOV from < 40 ° to 52°.
These devices are still popular in Mixed Reality Segment, with strong mixed reality capabilities, its price range is from $3000 to $5000 which is quite costly in the segment.
Mira Reality
Mira Reality comes with a phone-based mixed reality solution with a Mira Prizm Pro headset, which uses a smart phone in the headset.
A similar concept I have seen recently by Reliance in India.
Moggles
Moggles is a mobile VR headset, I included it in the list due to its foldable, pocketable characteristics.
Mojo
Mojo Vision has come up with a concept of augmented reality contact lenses. They attracted good funding from the investors, and I hope they will make it a reality.
Mutrics
Mutrics comes with two audio smart glasses GB-30 and MUTRI X under $150 range. with support for Google Assitant and Siri.
NextMind
NextMind revealed a VR headset at CES 2020, that can read electroencephalogram(EEG) signals from the brain using 8 electrodes that attach to the back of your head in the Device. It also won the innovation award at CES 2020. It would be compatible with other VR headsets.
Nintendo
Nintendo’s VIRTUAL BOY is now revamped and nice AR and VR glass. Have a look.
Niantic
Pokemon Go, the game that brought AR in the hand of people, and makers Niantic, now want to map the whole world with their smartmaps. They are working on AR Glasses.
Nimo Planet
Nimo planet will be coming up with a wearable computer the smart glass, that will allow 6 screens at a time, Read more here —
Norm Glasses
Norm glasses won the CES 2020 Innovation Award, produces a normal-looking lightweight smart glasses.
This is an Android-based dual-core device with 1GB RAM, 32GB storage. It comes with HD quality 8MP Camera and 20° FOV for HUD. Good battery life and just a 36 grams device.
North
Focals 2.0 Smart Glasses by North, is assumed to be one of the advanced smart glass ever made, it was supposed to be released by now. Focal 1.0 has created good traction with its normal-looking glasses design, with ring based controller, and Focal 2.0 is said to be 10x resolutions and better FOV, and 40 lighter.
It is now Google
Nreal
Nreal light was one of the best Mixed Reality Glasses available at CES 2020. It looks first normal looking smart glass with Mixed Reality Capability. We have only seen true MR in Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap yet, which are still quite heavy devices, and this is definitely a game-changer. They also won the best Headworn device award at AWE Online 2020.
This is just 88 grams MR capable smart glass with best in class FOV (52°) and a 6DOF device. It comes with great environmental understanding capabilities such as SLAM, plate detection, and image tracking. It comes with a 3DOF controller and an android based compute box. Nreal SDK supports Unity and Unreal engine. It’s available competitive price of $499 (consumer) and around $1199 (Developer Kit)
Near Air is the latest announced smart glasses, it is lighter (77g) than earlier version, and looks like a natural glass. it has 46° at refresh rate of 90Gz.
NuEyes
NuEyes brings a smart glass named NuEyes Pro for people with low vision. It helps in multiple eye health conditions. It has a number of features such as OCR, barcode, QR code scanner, social media applications, email, and takes voice inputs. They also have another VR product E2 to help visually impaired.
NuEye Pro 3 is the latest release, it is lightweight (88 g) and wide fov (52°), 4K resolution, and capable with SLAM and 6DoF.
Do check https://nugaming.io/specs/ as well.
OORYM
Oorym is developing and fabricating next generation near to eye displays.
Oppo
Oppo coming up with Smartphone backed AR Glasses, with stereo fisheye cameras, one ToF sensor, and one RGB camera. it will have real-time SLAM and gesture interactions. simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) tracking. It is said to much lighter than earlier version, and more close to normal looking glasses.
Optinvent
Optinvent has the following devices:
ORA-2 — is equipped with a dual-core CPU with a GPU, 5MP camera, IMU, GPS. It runs on Android AOSP 4.2.2. It comes with a good number of pre-loaded apps. price range 699.00€.
ORA-X — is an interestingly designed headphone with a display unit. It is powered with a dual-core CPU with a GPU and has a touchpad, 5MP camera, adjustable display arm, IMO, and powerful battery to let it use for hours.
Osterhout Design Group (ODG)
ODG introduced R-8 & R-9 smart glasses at CES 2017. They also come with R-7HL which is designed for rough situations. Many industrial use cases are being explored.
OSVR
Open Source Virtual Reality ( OSVR) claims to be an Open Source Hardware and software stack for Virtual Reality development.
Panasonic
Panasonic unveils words first ultra HD VR glasses with beautiful design. AT CES 2020, it got good traction.
At CES 2021, a better version is introduced with 2.6K micro-OLED panels for each eye, and integrated with 5G, Inter-Pupillary Distance (IPD) and diopter adjustments, and without screen door effect.
PEGASI
PEGASI Glasses comes with an interesting concept with lets you sleep better. They have two variants. PEGASI 1S which regulate the sleep cycle, solve sleep and problems. PEGASI dream is a foldable glass, these are integrated with smart light that adjusts the human melatonin secretion level scientifically.
Pegatron
Pegatron is a Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing company, it collaborated with 3M and comes with reference design to advanced VR device, that has foldable lens. Powered by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ XR2 Platform.
Pico
Pico comes with a couple of variants for standalone VR devices, similar to Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. Pico has a good partner eco-system, has partnered with HTC, and accesses all the content from Viveport.
Pico G2 series — has 3DOF standalone VR devices, with 3K to 4K display, 32/64GB variants,
Pico Neo 2 series — has 6DOF standalone VR devices, with 4K display, eye tracking, 101° wide FOV, and 6DOF controllers.
Pico has also built Lenovo Mirage VR S3 — All in one VR headset.
Pico is acquired by TikTok’s parent company Bytedance.
Pimax
Pimax produces award-winning VR products for entry-level to professionals.
Pimax Artisan — is an entry-level VR device tethered with VR ready PC, with the widest FOV, 170° Diagonal/140° Horizontal. supports eye-tracking modes, hand gestures recognition, valve index controllers. It starts at $499.
Pimax Vision 8K — is a high-end VR device for real VR enthusiasts, with dual 4K display, with the widest FOV, 200° Diagonal. supports eye-tracking modes, hand gestures recognition, valve index controllers. The price range starts at $899.
Pimax 5K — is for professional, has a configurable bundle with max FOV 200° Diagonal, and all the above optional features. It starts at $699.
Qualcomm
Most XR devices backed by chipset by Qualcomm and also fueling 5G integrations in XR Devices. Qualcomm brings a reference design for XR2 5G based XR devices.
QWR
Qualcomm is coming up with big way, they announces Snapdragon Spaces XR platform, that has potential to drive the world toward open standards across industry.
QWR
It runs on Layer OS 1.0 (Open source android — AOSP fork), and Qualcomm XR1 Platform.
We can see, Normal looking XR glasses are in their pipeline. The company QWR stands for “Question What’s Real” has a great vision to bring up the new real.
Rayban
Rayban joined hands with Facebook, and comes with smart AR glasses. It is integrated with facebook, and comes with 5MP dual camera, and touch based control. Connects with wifi and bluetooth.
Reliance Jio (Tesseract)
India’s industrial giant Reliance Jio announced an XR device Holoboard which supposed to be supported by Reliance’s own Jio Fiber network connectivity. It was built by Tesseract, and reliance acquired the majority of the stack of Tesseract.
Holoboard XR device is an award-winning technology with a comfortable and ergonomic design. It is backed by cross-platform SLAM tracking, cloud anchor sessions, real-time localization. The SDK support Unity porting with Unity projects. It is at a really competitive price from $149 to $349. I hope this tech will evolve and disrupt the industry.
And here comes the next one Jio Glass. A normal looking mixed reality glass tethered with a smartphone, just 75g, 25 pre-installed apps, integrated with Jio Mixed Reality Cloud services.
Realmax
Realmax is a tech startup based in China, demoed their RealMax 100 at CES 2020. It was named as RealMax Qian is a standalone AR headset with a wide FOV 100.8°. The HMD can be changed between VR and AR modes. It comes with 4GB RAM, a Qualcomm 835 chip, and 64 GB Flash and 6DoF tracking
Realware
Realware offers ruggedized wearable solutions for industrial environments: HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1. Both are designed to be used in wet, dusty, hot and hazardous environments. It comes with 20° field-of-view, 1-meter fixed focus 24-bit color LCD.
Rokid
Rokid builds following XR devices.
Rokid Vision — is MR glasses compatible with mobile phones. It is just 120g in weight. It has 6DOF space tracking, and 40° FOV with a 720P HD 3D display. At CES 2021, Rokid Vision 2 is announced.
Rokid Glass won the best wearable award at CES 2018. It is an independent AR Glasses, weighing only 150g. It comes with 4GB RAM, 64GB space, and 33° FOV with a 1300mAh fast-charging battery. It runs on Android 7.1.
Rokid Glass 2 is a foldable AR glasses, and an improved version. It is thinner and lighter (just 90g). It has 40° FOV with 10000mAh fast-charging battery. It comes with built-in capability to run image, voice, and face detection.
Rotacional
Rotacional brings XR devices called ViPDisplay, which mirrors the display of smartphones, tablets, and PCs on HUD in front of the eyes, and another variant designed for sending a video stream to other end.
Samsung
Samsung has multiple XR devices and been investing in the XR tech for long.
Samsung Gear VR — it is the most popular XR device from Samsung, it is powered by Oculus, it is compatible with selected Samsung smartphones. It provides a good 101° FOV.
HMD Odyssey+ — is based on the Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality platform, comes with two 6DOF cameras, 110° FOV, 6DOF controllers, and also support the Xbox controller.
Samsung once revealed a standalone VR headset in 2017 but never heard of it later. Also, read that Samsung is also building normal looking glasses to help people with vision loss.
Shadow Creator
Shadow Creator is china based organization and has multiple XR devices as follows:
JIMO — Shadow Creator is working on a light-weight smart glass concept Jimo. It would be supposed to be a120grams, 6DOF device, with a replaceable magnetic battery. Targeting to have best in class FOV (55°) Stay tuned!
Action One Smart Glasses —it is quite a powerful device with a beautifully designed MR device. It can be controlled with a controller, gestures, and voice. It has 45° FOV, with great 6DOF capability. 4000 mah battery capacity.
Shadow VR is a powerful VR platform, with 6DOF capability. HD 2K resolution display and 110° FOV. It comes with a hand controller. It runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset.
Halomini Smart Glasses — it is a beautifully designed smart glass, with a 40° FOV, and 370-gram device. Great audio with dual surround sound, and HD OLED display. It comes with an on-device touchpad as well as a Bluetooth gamepad/controller. It has 4-core processors, Bosch IMU, and inbuilt GPS.
Snap Inc.
Snap Inc.’s Spectacles-3, is quite useful for capturing the 3D experience and then sharing and viewing it in VR. Its camera comes with 86° to 105° of FOV.
New spectacles launched recently lets you see world in AR, and use it as Hands-free mannar. It comes with dual 3D waveguide displays and a 26.3° diagonal FOV, adjustable brightness for indoor and outdoor usage.
Solos
Solos Smart Glasses are for cycling primarily, it shows performance data in HUD, connected with companion app in the smart phone.
Sony
Sony’s PlayStation is a popular VR device and a great gaming platform. It multiple game controllers such as PS4 game controllers, Playstation Move controllers, and PS VR aim controller. It has approx 100° FOV and a close to 600g device.
StarVR
StarVR has claimed to achieve a natural field of view in their VR device STARVR ONE. It comes with unparalleled 210° horizontal,130° degree vertical FOV, true-color with 90 fps, eye-tracking capability. Good SDK support for Unity and Unreal.
TCL
TCL’s announced expansion of its smart device ecosystem at CES 2021. The TCL wearable display has dual 1080p FHD micro-OLED, 140-degree coverage, 49 PPD and more.
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ThirdEye
ThirdEye X2 MR Glasses, is a lightweight MR glasses, with 42° FOV, and a number of sensors, 6DOF tracking with VisionEye SLAM SDK. It runs on Android 9. It comes with a fast-charging battery. They won the best head-worn device award at AWE Online 2020.
Toshiba
Toshiba’s Dyna Edge AR100 is running on Windows 10, was produced by Vuzix connected to Toshiba’s compute pack.
Univet
Univet with its partners comes with augmented safety glasses named VisionAR. They attract the best head-worn device award at AWE Online 2020. It comes with a touchpad, 20° diagonal FOV, Quad-core CPU, 2G RAM, Hot-swappable battery, and runs on Android 6.
Valve
Valve creates the VR headset Valve Index, controllers, and other accessories. There are a number of VR platform uses the valve controllers to enhance the experience.
Varjo
Varjo makes near human-eye resolution virtual and mixed reality products with wider 170° FOV.
XR-1 Developer Edition — is an MR device tethered with PC, supports real-time chroma-keying and object tracking to achieve absolute immersion. It comes with a built-in 20/20 eye tracker, and next-gen bionic display. Readout video passthrough technology from Varjo.
VR 2 — is a VR device tethered with PC and support similar human-eye solutions.
VISION
Vision-100 glasses are available from many sellers. The vOICe using these smart glasses are being used to generate vision using sound for the disabled.
VLAVR
VLAVR is a china based company coming up with an ultra-thin VR Device called miniVR. The VR device, supposed to support 105 ° FOV, auto IDP. However no information by when this device will be in the market. They are also trying to create a VR use-case with blockchain.
VRginners
VRgineers XTAL is a high-resolution VR headset with 180° FOV and 5K resolution. Auto IPD, and embedded leap motion for hand tracking, with voice inputs.
Vuzix
Vuzix has produced a series of XR devices,
- M300XL is the entry-level smart glasses, in less than ~1000$ range. It comes with 16.7° FOV, Dual-Core CPU, 2GB RAM, 64GB memory, and hot-swappable battery. Runs on Android 6 OS.
- M400 the benchmark for the smart glasses industry. It comes with Its outstanding 4K camera, 16.8° FOV, 8-Core Qualcomm XR1, 6GB RAM, 64GB Memory, hot-swappable battery. Runs on Android 8.1, with OTA and MDM support. It starts at $1800.
- M4000 will be based on M400 smart glasses with better FOV and ergonomics.
- Vuzix Blade is see-thru, normal-looking smart glasses, with Quad-Core ARM CPU, 8M Camera, and running on Android OS. It starts at $800.
- At CES 2021, Vuzix comes with new next Gen Smart Glass with microLED display, and this one is a normal looking glass.
Woxter
Woxter produces Neo VR 100, comes with Full HD display, runs on Android 4, octa-core CPU, and 2GB RAM.
Xiaomi
Xiaomi has announced a pair of smart glasses called Xiaomi Smart Glasses. Xiaomi says the glasses weigh just 51 grams.
XRSpace
XRSpace comes with standalone VR Headset Mova. It would support 5G, LTE, and Wi-Fi and run on Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, and 6G RAM. It allows navigating with natural hand gestures, no need for any controller.
Conclusion
So far we have explored 85+ XR device manufacturers, and 220+ devices may be. I have not included a list for Mobile VR, you can find many such vendors building VR boxes, just by searching in Amazon, Flipcart or similar eCommerce website. So the overall list is even bigger and growing day by day.
There are a number of peripherals that are also being manufactured for XR devices such as haptic gloves, jackets, and hats, we have not taken them into the account yet.
Lets now build more use cases using these devices and solve some real issues being faced by humanity. We are going through the COVID time, and we have seen the usage of XR in Health, let’s try to solve some more, build more solutions which promote hygiene, touch-less, remove working, etc. More we use these devices, sooner they will reach in our price range.
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