By will-buy
Gaming accessories developer Razer is launching some voice assistant-enabled smart glasses with built-in microphones and speakers. The $200 Anzu smart glasses are for sale to pre-order and will function as a new rival in the burgeoning sell to offerings from Amazon, Bose, and Huawei, amongst others.
Anzu Look
Razer made a square along with a round lens variant of Anzu, each arriving small and large sizes. The frames include regular and sunglass lenses that may be exchanged as desired, and also the clients are dealing with Lensabl to supply 15% discounts on getting prescription lenses made for the unit. The glasses connect by Bluetooth to some smartphone and can perform much like earbuds or any other audio smart glasses. Touch controls on each side from the lenses can adjust music, answer telephone calls and awaken the voice assistant of the connected smartphone to issue commands.
One aspect that does make Razer stay ahead of potential rivals may be the true wireless audio design. The right and left speakers are separate from one another like Apple AirPods or any other earbuds. Razer describes the option as a way to make the glasses more comfortable to put on because the separated systems mean the frames can be more flexible.
“The Razer Anzu modernizes the wearable category when it comes to convenience and blue light or UV protection,” Razer head of sales and marketing John Moore said. “With Anzu, Razer is entering the marketplace at any given time if you find a surge of people working at home – where eye protection, hands-free communication and smart features have reached popular.”
Smart Eyes
The failure of Google Glass seems to have almost entirely faded as smart glasses are popping up all over. Audio-only smart glasses in particular have found new life in the Bose Frames, Huawei's Eyewear II, Vue Lite, and the Echo Frames. Smart glasses with holographic along with other visual components are also starting to slowly appear. Google is clearly will make another attempt after acquiring North, the manufacturers of Focals by North smart glasses, after June. North's portfolio included many patents acquired from Intel in 2023 for the canceled Vaunt smart glasses, that the company built-into its very own product, and which Google will doubtless find useful. Facebook is supposedly dealing with Ray-Ban on smart glasses with AR too, and details about Apple's plans for smart glasses with displays in the lenses leaked captured.
This is really Razer’s second wearable for the face this year after debuting a good mask called Project Hazel at CES in January. Project Hazel enhances an N95 medical mask with active ventilation from removable disc-shaped ventilator units. Also inside is a microphone and amplifier to make the wearer's voice audible to people around them. When not in use, the mask could be charged in a box which sterilizes with ultraviolet light. The images of Anzu released so far don’t have any from the models wearing Project Hazel as it might be redundant, but hopefully, the microphones can understand what someone wearing a mask says at least for that foreseeable future.
