Oppo’s new AI-powered AR smart glasses give us a glimpse of the next technological revolution


  • Oppo has shown off its Air Glass 3 AR glasses at MWC 2024
  • They are powered by the AndesGPT AI model and can answer questions
  • It’s still just a prototype, but the technology may not be far away from launch

While there’s a bit of an oddity to the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses – it’s a wearable camera, after all – the built-in AI is pretty neat, even if some of the best features are still in beta. So it’s not surprising that other companies are looking to launch their own AI-powered specs, with Oppo being the latest to unveil its new Air Glass 3 at MWC 2024.

In a demo video, Oppo shows how the specifications have seemingly radically changed someone’s working day. When they boot up, the Air Glass 3’s 1000-nit displays show the user an overview of their schedule, and while they’re making coffee before a meeting, they’ll get a message that the meeting has started early.

During the meeting, the specs will address a question that was asked, and Oppo’s AndesGPT AI model (which runs on a connected smartphone) may provide some possible answers. Later, the design details discussed are used to create an image of a possible prototype design that the wearer then brings to life.

After a good day of work, they can relax with some of their favorite songs, played through the glasses’ built-in speakers. All this is crammed into a 50 gram design.

The big caveat here is that the Air Glass 3 AR glasses are just a prototype. Furthermore, none of the previous Air Glass models have been released outside of China – so it’s more likely than not that the Air Glass 3 won’t be either.

But what Oppo is showing isn’t exactly being imitated by its rivals, and much of it is pretty much possible in technology you can buy today – including those Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses.

The future is now

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses already have an AI that can answer questions such as a voice-controlled ChatGPT.

They can also scan the environment around you with the camera to get context for questions – for example, “what meal can I make with these ingredients?” – via their ‘Watch and Ask’ feature. These tools are currently in beta, but the technology works and the AI ​​features will hopefully be more widely available soon.

They can also alert you to texts and calls you receive and play music, just like the Oppo Air Glass 3 concept.

The Ray-Ban Meta glasses exude style and have useful AI tools (Image credit: Meta)

Then there’s the

If you combine these two glasses, you are already very close to Oppo’s concept; you’d just have to clean up the design a bit, and probably splurge a bit more, as I expect lenses with built-in displays won’t be cheap.

The only thing I don’t see happening anytime soon is the AI ​​creating a working prototype of a product design for you. It may provide some inspiration for a designer to get started with, but reliably creating a fully functional model seems to be more than a little beyond the capabilities of existing AI image generation tools.

While the Oppo Air Glass 3 certainly looks like a promising look at the future, we’ll have to see what they’re actually capable of if and when they launch outside of China.

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