Lenovo A3 glasses - your thoughts?
So I posted yesterday on the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro glasses looking for thoughts, so thought it made sense to ask for the same thing on the Lenovo A3 glasses.
At AWE 2023, we were really excited to announce our partnership with Qualcomm who has announced their new chip that will support AR glasses like Lenovo, and many others. Lenovo is the first device we are working with and overall we are really happy with what we see. However, we know that one device won't fit all use cases, just like one phone is not the answer for every person. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on
- the use case you have
- if you have tried the Lenovo A3, how they would work in your use case.
- What improvements or changes would you need/like to see?
The more info we can capture, it will be more effective to share with Lenovo and Qualcomm to support the use cases we are hearing!
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I think this is a great step in the right direction; my only concern for the A3 specifically is the limited number of phones they can be used with. I am not sure which phone models support A3, but I would be interested to find out.
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The use case I can see is doing multi-monitor work while on the road. It's hard to work on a 14/15" laptop monitor; would be nice to use the A3's to have more screens to work from while away from your main office. It would also be nice for public work (airport, Starbucks), where a competitor or black hat might be able to see your laptop screen.
Unfortunately, that's about all I can get excited about. Also, that's not a use case we're concerned with at this point.
To be honest, I think the best thing Lenovo could do would be to improve their product page. It's hard to tell exactly what the capabilities are, or why we'd want them. It's unclear whether the glasses can even track hand movements (I think they cannot). They can only pair with one specific phone (moto edge+), which we don't have in our enterprise (we use Apple and Samsung). The A3's don't seem like mixed reality glasses that should be sold next to AR/VR gear, they seem more like a display product that should be sold next to high-end curved monitors.
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Brendan Chase good question about the phones. Lets see if we can get some answers from Lenovo to help out with this.
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Hi @... I think you are right in that there needs to be a lot more information on them. I will try to get some info on them and share here. The one thing I can say is that our Engineering team and also our CEO are excited after trying them. The belief is that they will open up an entirely new market compared to the Hololens.
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I dug around a bit and found some helpful videos about the A3's! It seems like they focused on eye tracking and using the phone as a mousepad/laser pointer (no hand tracking): https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/videos/nvid500337
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The A3 glasses work with flagship Motorola phones, specifically the Edge 30 pro (aka edge plus (2022)) and the Edge 40 pro. We are excited to be the first Spaces certified devices. Leveraging the innovations coming from Spaces input modalities include phone touch screen, gaze from the glasses( ie head tracking not eye tracking), phone as a 3DoF controller, and gesture. For more details on what Spaces supports on the A3 from spatial mesh to the newly released Fusion feature can be found here: https://spaces.qualcomm.com/
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Thanks for the info Ian Graves!
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Yes, thank you for this helpful information! I understand a lot more about the features and capabilities of A3's with Spaces. They're real-deal AR glasses, not just a way to view PC screens securely!
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