Vuzix M400C Smart Glasses Become Publicly Available, Consumer Model At CES | ARPost - ARPost

At the opening of this year, Vuzix announced 2 caller astute glasses, the monocular endeavor exemplary M400C, and Shield. After months successful manufacturing, the M400C is acceptable to ship. There are besides immoderate caller method details that we person entree to – including the all-important price.

Vuzix besides precocious announced that they volition beryllium showcasing the level for an upcoming imaginable user model.

A Closer Look astatine the M400C

Vuzix announced the M400C successful January. At nether a 5th of a pound, the exemplary is simply a lighter-weight mentation of the M400, with the M400 being wireless and the M400C connecting to an outer computer. Being connected to an outer instrumentality makes merchandise absorption easier and means that the instrumentality has nary onboard battery.

It’s not conscionable lighter, it’s besides perchance much durable. The M400C has been drop-tested to six feet, portion its heavier-hitting and higher-priced older member has lone been drop-tested to 3 feet. While this mightiness not substance overmuch to casual XR users, it’s a large woody for the usage cases and clients that Vuzix works with. (Casual XR users, don’t spell anyplace conscionable yet).

The monocular plan clips to a glasses frame, oregon to the aforesaid accessories arsenic the archetypal M400, including hard hats and headbands. The instrumentality has power buttons and a touchpad onboard, but tin besides beryllium controlled via dependable commands, oregon bundle connected the connected computer.

The solid offers a discrete but accessible display, portion the exterior of the framework houses an auto-focus HD camera susceptible of people scanning, photography, and streaming video. The framework besides houses a talker and microphone for recording, listening to audio, oregon two-way connection betwixt the wearer and a distant party.

“The M400C represents the perfect replacement for outer oregon hand-held monitors, cameras oregon different signaling devices, oregon 2-way audio devices. We are thrilled to adhd this merchandise to our existing household of astute glasses solutions,” Vuzix CEO and President, Paul Travers, said successful a press release.

This Model successful the Vuzix Ecosystem

When we spoke with Travers successful January, we didn’t yet cognize the terms of the M400C. We present cognize that the astute glasses vessel to customers successful the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Japan for $1,300 – astir fractional the terms of the archetypal M400. That leaves much fund for attachments and accessories.

While Vuzix has discussed making their even lighter signifier origin AR glasses publically available, the M400C inactive needs to beryllium purchased done the institution – you won’t find them connected the shelves of immoderate section stores.

The Vuzix Ultralite

As this nonfiction was being written, the institution further announced that it volition showcase the level for its upcoming Ultralite glasses astatine CES this year. I’ve gotten huffy astatine Vuzix successful the past for sneaking announcements past maine by showcasing them astatine the Consumer Electronics Show, but this clip it’s fitting.

“Ultralite” is the sanction of a task that Vuzix has been showing tantalizing prototypes of for years. They’re the benignant of AR glasses that we’ve ever wanted. Well, they’re a monocular display. But, they look and consciousness similar a modular brace of glasses.

“Vuzix is starring the complaint to marque the imagination of sleek and fashionable astute glasses travel existent for the broader market, and it’s happening arsenic we speak,” Travers said successful a release.

Remember the fraction of a lb that the M400C wears? Ultralite weighs astir fractional of that, and they’re wireless. They’re being called a “smartphone accessory” so, astatine slightest astatine first, they’ll astir apt connection things similar heads-up surface mirroring and possibly a fewer basal spatial apps, but that’s inactive ace cool.

Anyway, we inactive don’t person a roadmap (or a terms tag) for the Ultralite. And, it looks similar the glasses volition beryllium offered arsenic an OEM. That means that you astir apt won’t bargain it from them directly, but from different tech institution – astir apt your mobile telephone provider, akin to however Nreal rolled retired Light. But it’s inactive thrilling.

Don’t Underestimate it

The M400C shipping is breathtaking for enterprise. Movement connected the Ultralite is breathtaking for consumers. There aren’t a batch of companies playing some sides similar that. Honestly, it’s ace breathtaking that it’s Vuzix. If anyone is going to springiness america full-color, full-size show AR glasses successful a comfy and stylish signifier origin that tin besides halt a bullet, it’ll astir apt beryllium them.