Enterprise-focused mixed-reality solutions company ThirdEye Gen Inc. announced today that it’s expanding its product line with a pair of lightweight MR smartglasses designed for consumers.

The Razor MR Glasses build on ThirdEye’s MR glasses design for industry workers. The company developed a sleek, lightweight form factor for consumers to experience immersive mixed-reality and augmented-reality applications with greater comfort. The glasses look a bit like a pair of bulky, foldable sunglasses, weighing in at 85 grams, or about three ounces.

“Through the feedback we’ve received from customers since we launched in 2016, we’ve found there to be a great desire to bring our lightweight solutions and user-friendly applications, like RemoteEye, for home use as well,” said Nick Cherukuri, founder and chief executive of ThirdEye.

Using the Razor glasses, home users will have access to a large number of “metaverse” applications including social media, gaming, communication and more. Mixed reality works by overlaying virtual holograms and information into a user’s visual field that appears to be part of the reality that they see, thus augmenting that reality.

ThirdEye also includes its remote-assistance app RemoteEye, which allows remote technicians to provide real-time help for in-home tasks such as repairs using cameras built into the glasses to see what the user is looking at and then add information to their visual field to assist. ThirdEye’s telehealth app RespondEye is also available for users to communicate with doctors and caregivers for medical assistance.

Cherukuri said that aside from designing a lightweight form factor for the device, it was developed to accommodate nearsighted users as well. With an adjustment, users can focus the internal lenses from zero to negative five diopters.

“Now, no one will need to attempt stacking multiple eyewear pieces — as is needed with VR solutions — making it extremely comfortable for daily use,” Cherukuri said.

The glasses operate with a 43-degree field of vision (equivalent to a 120-inch display) and have an eight-hour battery life. The display features a refresh rate of 70 Hertz for reduced flicker, and the arms house two noise-canceling microphones to provide clear communication. Users can also control the device using their own voice.

The glasses, which run on Android 9.0, can connect with most Android and iOS devices, including phones that support display port output, laptops and tablets with USB-C and gaming consoles via an HDMI adapter.

The Razor MR Glasses are in production and will ship later this year. Pre-orders are available.

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