XREAL has rolled out a real-time 3D conversion characteristic to its flagship AR glasses, which the corporate says converts any 2D content material to 3D.
Xreal initially launched its ‘Actual 3D’ software program on Xreal 1S AR glasses earlier this month, nonetheless now the corporate has rolled out an replace to Xreal One and One Professional that brings non-obligatory real-time 3D conversion to 2D content material.
The corporate says Actual 3D doesn’t require particular video information, apps, DRM-protected content material, or exterior software program. All the conversion is finished in real-time on gadget by way of the corporate’s X1 spatial computing chipset constructed into the One collection glasses.
“As a result of it doesn’t rely on proprietary gamers or codecs, Actual 3D works throughout related desktops, consoles, telephones, and different units,” the corporate says, noting that content material consists of motion pictures, streaming movies, regionally saved media, and video games.
Xreal tells Highway to VR it does this through the use of the X1 chip’s NPU (neural processing unit) to carry out depth estimation inference on each incoming body and to generate the corresponding left- and right-eye views with depth relationships.
The corporate says it’s nonetheless investigating Actual 3D’s latency. Notably, the corporate says that when in comparison with different show modes, its real-time 3D conversion leads to “barely greater energy consumption,” one thing Xreal says is round 300mW.
Moreover, Xreal tells Highway to VR that its Actual 3D know-how is solely developed in-house.
“We educated a extremely compact mannequin that balances efficiency and energy consumption particularly for integrating into the X1 chip. Whereas real-time 3D conversion is comparatively easy on high-end GPUs, we have now not discovered any comparable options within the trade that may function successfully on low-power platforms like X1.”
The Beijing-based AR glasses maker sells a reasonably big selection of AR glasses, all of which goal conventional content material consumption, reminiscent of flatscreen video games, TV and movie working by itself Android-based working system.
Alongside the announcement it had secured a $100 million financing spherical, Xreal additionally lately turned Google’s lead AR accomplice following a multi-year extension of an settlement initially initially began in late 2024.
In consequence, Xreal goals to deliver Google’s Android XR working system to its AR glasses over the subsequent few years, which is slated to kick off with Xreal’s Venture Aura when it launches sooner or later this yr. Within the meantime, you may take a look at our latest hands-on with Venture Aura right here.
