OPPO reveals first AR glasses, set to release in Q1 2020

OPPO showed its first AR glasses, which can realize three-dimensional reproduction at the OPPO INNO Day 2019 on Tuesday. The commercial version of the glasses will be released in the first quarter of next year.

OPPO AR glasses use diffractive optical waveguide technology to achieve thinness and high transmittance. They are equipped with 3D surround sound and support multi-modal interaction such as gestures and speech recognition.

OPPO AR glasses cover a variety of AR content, games and services.

The AR glasses experience was also shown at the scene with OPPO staff wearing the glasses to enter the space scene and watched each planet in all directions.

With the booming development of the AR glasses market, more and more mobile phone manufacturers are targeting this big cake.

Vivo also recently launched its first AR glasses at the MWC Shanghai Exhibition 2019. This product has 3 built-in cameras for sensing and identifying objects.

There are 2 independent displays in the lenses, supporting 720P 3D content display, the two screens can display different content respectively, which can provide nearly 110 inches of 3D visual large screen visual experience.

Apple and Samsung have also exposed patents related to AR glasses this year.

The patent shows that Apple's new AR glasses will use a high-transparency infrared single-sided mirror material that can hide the headset camera, making the AR glasses closer to ordinary glasses.

Samsung AR glasses will be equipped with translucent lenses in the middle area of the screen mirror surface. The waveguides are used to transmit 3D depth to diffract the projection. The glasses can be turned off when folded.

According to the forecast of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, the global AR market size will reach 141.67 billion yuan in 2022, corresponding to a compound growth rate of 79% in 2019-2022.

IDC predicts that AR glasses sales will reach 31.9 million units in 2023, corresponding to a compound growth rate of 169% in 2019-2023. The growth in shipments of AR glasses will rapidly drive downstream content application production and product diversity, further stimulating the growth of the overall AR market size.