Hands on with the ODG R-8: AR/VR smartglasses that use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835

Microsoft’s HoloLens led me to believe that augmented-reality vision hardware needs to be big and bulky. But ODG’s new Android-powered R-8 smartglasses just made me think again.

Osterhout Design Group’s R-8 glasses will cost less than $1,000, and combine both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), offering 720p resolution independently to either eye for true stereoscopic vision. There’s also an R-9 version that will offer 1080p resolution for $1,799. The two glasses are the first design wins for the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip, which Qualcomm revealed Tuesday at CES 2017.

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