Magic Leap smart glasses starting price of 1000 pounds comparable to Apple X

According to "Daily Mail", Magic Leap plans to sell an AR smart glasses this year, starting at 1,000 pounds. Magic Leap, a startup that owns tech giants such as Google, said they are developing multiple versions of smart glasses in different sizes and configurations. Magic Leap has said it expects smart glasses to go on sale this year at a price similar to the iPhone X, priced at £ 1,000.

Magic Leap One is the Magic Leap smart glasses "Developer Edition", is expected to be available later this year. The news was disclosed by Rony Abovitz, Magic Leap chief executive, at a media conference this week in Huntington Beach, California, USA. Magic Leap is planning to develop multiple versions of augmented reality glasses for consumers and professionals at different levels.

The Daily Mail said Magic Leap One is essentially a mid-range product in the Magic Leap product line. Abovitz said at this meeting that they will introduce some products that are higher and lower in price. This means that Magic Leap will have more high-end products for the super-professional, and then we will have a mass-market product as well.

Magic Leap also announced the details of the partnership with the NBA and the endorsement video of former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal. O'Neal appears to wear the largest yet-released Magic Leap Smart VR Glasses. O'Neal pointed to a table and said, "I watched a basketball game here, and it was the most surprising thing."

Earlier media reports said the price of Magic Leap One may be close to 1,500 pounds to 2,000 pounds. Microsoft Augmented Reality Heads HoloLens Developer Edition is currently priced at 3,000 pounds. Magic Leap discloses its AR glasses in December 2017. It comes in two sizes, the parts can be customized to make it more suitable for user's face. Magic Leap AR smart glasses include three parts: Lightwear glasses, Lightpack computing platform, and the Control handle.

According to Magic Leap, Lightwear glasses use Digital Lightfield technology. The digital light field mixes with natural light to create a more lifelike object. This advanced technology allows our brains to handle digital objects as if they were objects in the real world, making smart glasses suitable for prolonged use. Magic Leap said it will launch a developer portal in early 2018 to provide developers with resources to help them take full advantage of the platform.

Flexible screen mobile phone? Sony released new preheat

From the MWC2018 Mobile World Congress approaching, and the 2018 flagship mobile phone broke the news more and more, Sony is one of them. Although the Sony brand of mobile phones can not be called mainstream, in the mobile phone technology innovation has maintained a leader's attitude, a variety of black technology brings us amazing surprise every year. MWC's footsteps are getting closer, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Sony, LG, etc. will be unveiled at the time.

Among them, there are already rumors that Sony will be released at this conference the Xperia XZ2, which will use 18: 9 full-screen design. And now, Sony is also revealing the new flagship message through its official Instagram, which is pretty subtle. Sonyxperia official account posted a short video hinted that the Xperia XZ2 back will use the surface design, greatly enhance the handheld feeling.

Sony released the MWC new preheat short video, compared to static images can be more intuitive. From the moving picture, a square object becomes a curved form after it has been placed on the hand, and then returns to a straight form. Is this a long-awaited Sony flexible screen mobile phone? If it really is free to bend, then amazingly, it can be called the industry-first innovation.

The last phone in the mobile phone industry caused a sensation of the flexible screen mobile phone is LG Flex 2, however, this product has too many problems, screen problems frequently occur, leading directly to the industry benchmark and this product has been discontinued. More importantly, this phone has only one curved form, very inconvenient to carry, but also particularly vulnerable to damage, it can be said is a pity.

However, according to well-known digital bloggers, Sony's new flagship Xperia XZ2 should only have the appearance changes, the back of the phone will use the arc design. At the same time, some media also exposed the Xperia XZ2 Compact real phone, XZ2 adopts the same design language but the size and hardware are different. Are you looking forward to what Sony will bring us this year? I do, and I have selected some Sony Cases Covers in advance.

Face recognition, you can board the plane!

The Los Angeles International Airport, the nation's busiest airport, uses the latest face recognition technology to help travelers check-in since February 16, a technology that is very similar to the latest smartphone face-lift unlocking, using face-matching algorithms to confirm visitors passport, boarding pass and so on.

According to "KTLA TV" reported that after a period of 3 weeks of testing, the Los Angeles International Airport officially opened the face recognition door on the 16th, there are two new doors installed at Tom Bradley International Terminal, when customers pass by requirements scanning passport, boarding pass and face, the all these three things need to be agreed.

Micro-chips are embedded in the newer passports, and the passport photo data is stored in the chip. According to the U.S. Air Transport Security Agency, LAX has a camera on the newly installed face recognition door that automatically takes passenger photos and compares it with the images in the microchip using a face-matching algorithm to verify that passengers and passports are above the same person. Just like many advanced smartphones, such as iPhone X, Samsung S8, Samsung Note 8, Vivo X20, Huawei Honor V10 and Xiaomi MIX 2. The Huawei Honor V10's depth camera also achieved 3D facial recognition, and from the technology media reviews, Huawei's facial recognition capabilities are more powerful than Apple's Face ID.

The Bureau of Transportation Safety anticipates that this facial recognition technology will help reduce manual labor dependency and speed up the security screening process, thereby reducing the waiting and queuing time.

Face recognition technology has been applied to more and more areas. February 11, Guangzhou Municipal Land Resources and Planning Commission to enable "upgrade" real estate registration booking platform. The platform features such as "face recognition" and shared data integration. Applicants only need to fill in three basic information, and simply click to complete the registration.