With a teaser video promising to make smartphones “a thing of the past” if you imagine “every smartphone function integrated into what you wear”, Xiaomi on Tuesday unveiled a smart glasses concept—just days after Ray-Ban and Facebook unveiled their own product in this space.
Xiaomi says its Smart Glasses can display messages and notifications, make calls, navigate, capture photos, and translate text “right before your eyes”. The video shows how the glasses can be used to take photos (a tap on the side), translate a menu from Mandarin to English, and project an image the size of a small billboard in front of the user’s eye. There is even Heads-Up Display navigation with a mini-map style display. Xiaomi says its Smart Glasses will weight just 51g, and has a display chip measuring just 2.4x2.01mm—roughly the size of a grain of rice.
The unveil comes a day before a product launch for an unspecified batch of devices, speculated to be the Mi 11T series and an addition to the Redmi 10 lineup.
It also comes a week after Facebook and Ray-Ban announced their collaboration for a new smart glass, the Ray-Ban Stories.
Xiaomi had earlier announced a significant rebranding for its premium product series, dropping the “Mi” branding in favour of “Xiaomi”—with a new logo to boot. “Ushering in the festive season, Xiaomi’s premium product series “Mi” will be renamed to Xiaomi” the company said.
