On Thursday, Atheer Labs started an Indiegogo campaign to promote its new 3D, augmented-reality glasses platform.
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| The Atheer Developer Kit is scheduled to ship Q1 2014 |
Atheer's first goal is to build a library of apps to showcase the wearable computer. The effort to attract developers to the platform could be aided by having some preorders for its consumer device, the Atheer One. Atheer is aiming at the Android community with its Development Kit, which takes advantage of existing Android APIs, and developers familiar with the Unity and Vuforia 3D programming environments.
The developer hardware consists of glasses, weighing 75 grams, and a pocket-sized computer to power the apps. The glasses have twin high-definition, 1024x768-pixel displays, and a 36-degree field of view . The Atheer Development Kit will cost $850 and be available in the first quarter of 2014.
"Our number one target is commercial applications, and we are also looking for verticals like sports and gaming," said Soulaiman Itani, Atheer Labs founder and CEO.
At the end of 2014, the company expects to ship the Atheer One to consumers craving to be at the frontier of virtual, wearable computing. Unlike the Development Kit, the Atheer One will be tethered to an Android phone, and have the capability to run the nearly one billion Android apps without modification via a "legacy" 2D mode. The 2D Android apps are displayed through the 3D glasses as if a tablet were floating in front of you, Itani said. Atheer's technology could also be integrated with other operating systems.
The Atheer One glasses will have a 65-degree field of vision display (similar to a 26-inch tablet at half arm's length) and be priced at $350 for those who preorder it via Indiegogo. For comparison, the 2D Google Glass, which has a far smaller field of view, currently sells for $1,500.
Image: Atheer Labs
Source : CNET
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