Gadgetory

this is Nick's dad with the verge we're here at a CES is Capcom gadget show we are checking out the music's played it's a pair of AR glasses and it's the real deal this is Google glass but it actually works so similar to Google glass this floats a little square image in your view but unlike Google glass this is doing it directly over a pair of standard sunglasses so you don't have to look through a little prism you don't have to look very high up into the right corner of your vision it floats it right there in front of you in fact you can even move it up and down in the settings of the glasses themselves the company musics they're from Rochester New York they've been working in this technology for almost two decades now and they've pretty much finally cracked it right now when AR is having a big moment we're seeing a ton of AR goggles and glasses from all these different companies musics here has come out the prototype device that actually works so right now with these glasses you can do a number of different things right now I'm looking at a home screen as it floats right above my videographer Biren right here now if I swipe with my right hand I can go through different apps there's an Amazon Alexa app now that's what makes these pair of a our goggles really stand out is they've integrated Amazon's digital assistant right into them so you can speak to them as if you were speaking to an echo speaker or any number of other Amazon devices now if you keep scrolling go from Alexa there's a little tank game that you can play there's a photo gallery so you can pin some high-res images and watch as they float around your field of vision they even have a firefox browser here that unfortunately does not work either because the Wi-Fi is a little bit spotty in here but the really cool thing is they have a camera so if I tap right here I get a live view of what my glasses are seeing and then I can tap and take a photo now I can't stress enough how how good this actually is this is the first pay P up here pay our classes that are actually comfortable they feel natural as they sit on my head I don't feel any weirdness any discomfort they're not squeezing the backs of my heads it's not lurching off the front of my nose in a really awkward way they sit comfortably on your head and the image floats perfectly clear right in front of your face now music says they've only been able to accomplish this by spending so many years working on DLP projection which is what they have miniaturized and put right here in the side of the glasses and then using a waveguide system to basically send the light back towards my eye so you're probably wondering how can I interact with the views explained without either using the touchpad or using my voice down the line music says they will actually be able to enable gesture controls so you can reach out in front of you and touch the digital image and interact with it now a lot of other companies are trying this exact same thing DLP projection waveguides companies like magic leap down in Florida and we've seen in a number of other companies here at CES - but no no company has really figured it out quite like Music's has I can't say enough that this is a pair of AR glasses that really feels that gets ready for primetime if they sold this next month I would certainly consider buying it now the company does plan on selling it very soon they plan on bringing a developer version to marketing q1 for $2,000 now they that gets you a developer version and also a consumer version when that comes out in the second quarter of this if you just want the consumer version you can buy that for $1000 for all your augmented reality coverage both the devices that don't work and the devices that like the views explained actually do work check out the verge comm or subscribe to us on youtube at youtube.com slash the verge