Ostloong Innovations to Ship LYRA Smart Glasses in September

This year, Ostloong Innovations will start shipping its LYRA smart glasses, an AR wearable the firm purpose-built to support outdoor use.

Ostloong Innovations is shipping the LYRA product in September 2023, bringing a new solution to the busy smart glasses market.

While many smart glasses are available to consumers via firms such as Meta, Nreal, and VITURE, Ostloong Innovations’ product is a rare expectation that advertises stable outdoor AR visualizations.

The product aims to use AR visuals and integrated features to assist consumers in their everyday life. Amber Gao, the CEO of Ostloong Innovations, added that the LYRA product “is a real turning point that offers a new way of living daily life.”

Previously, Ostloong Innovations debuted immersive products for personalized use. The firm designed its first commercially available product, SIRUS, as a pair of smart ski goggles for sports enthusiasts and professionals.

Now, with the LYRA product Ostloong Innovations looks to continue its outdoor AR success with a pair of smart glasses, which impacts a broader market.

LYRA: Using AI to Empower AR

Among its core features, the LYRA smart glasses notably leverage AI to improve the device’s outdoor performance and user experience (UX).

Ostloong Innovations use AI to improve device features such as object recognition/tracking, gesture inputs, hand/eye tracking, and voice command. AI algorithms enable Ostloong Innovations to provide its customers with an immersive UX, which creates an appropriate interface suitable for a user’s surroundings.

Ostloong Innovations also leverage OUTDOOR AR Display, a custom near-sight immersive display application that enables its device’s outdoor appropriate visualizations.

The firm purpose-built its AR display optimization technology for sport use cases. Although Ostloong Innovations states that developers can leverage the application to suit “any specific integration requirements.”

The solution provides Ostloong Innovations’ devices with precise positioning, field of view, and distance from a tagged image. Moreover, for its sports business end-users, the application has features such as real-time AR visuals of altitude, temperature, road maps, wind speed, and movement speed.

Regarding the LYRA’s outdoor display optimization technology, Amber Gao also added:

The smart glasses offer a personalized experience that allows users to stay connected to relevant information in real-time while being focused on their surroundings, being able to easily access important information without interrupting their tasks, making LYRA a high-performance all-in-one designed for a broad range of people with different situations, lifestyles, and personal preferences.

LYRA Device Features and Selling Points

Ostloong Innovations designed the LYRA device to suit office work, city life, and travelling. According to the firm, displaying real-time information as AR visualizations via optical waveguide lenses can give users the tools to manage daily tasks efficiently.

Moreover, the device contains a multilingual translator, AI secretary, GPS, mobile data integration, and a music player. The device also supports real-time reading and its multilingual translator from voice to text and from text to text.

Additionally, LYRA’s integrated GPS leverages mobile data for user navigation. The device also allows for user calls and messages via mobile data integration.

Although, LYRA still requires tethering to an external computing device to offload additional process power for its real-time AR informational visualisations.

To operate the LYRA device, users must operate a small touchpad which attaches to a user’s leg and connects to the smart glasses.

Other Outdoor AR Solutions

While LYRA’s debut is around the corner, other AR solutions are also emerging to solve challenges relating to outdoor AR visualisations.

For example, ThirdEye is helping to lead the frontline digital revolution with its XR Mixed Reality smart glasses. The device can assist on-site workers, indoors or outdoors, by providing location-sensitive AR visuals.

The XR Mixed Reality device leverages ThirdEye’s VisionEye SLAM SDK, enabling its outdoor-ready AR. ThirdEye’s development cycle considers end-users in a range of verticals with its built-in tracking and environment plane detection.

Additionally, Digilens debuted an outdoor-ready AR device in January. The firm’s ARGO product aims to assist enterprise end-users such as frontline workers, doctors, surgeons, and remote inspectors with hands-free functionality, including voice and gaze recognition.

The device OS enables workers to operate ARGO outdoors. The device also boasts features such as reduced eye glow and a smaller form factor to assist in outdoor usage.

Moreover, Niantic is developing Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS) to optimise outdoor AR content. The firm previously saw worldwide recognition for its immersive Pokemon: Go application, placing gamified AR visualisations via a user’s smartphone.

VPS optimises the design and distribution of location-based AR experiences to accelerate and scale immersive outdoor content. VPS can assist in improving AR application performance across devices like smartphones and headsets.

Niantic and project partners Qualcomm are also working on a reference design for smart glasses specifically for outdoor use.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR2 chipset powers the potential product, creating an immersive device using micro form factor components that offer superior software integrations, lower operating temperatures, and more processing power.

To enhance immersive experiences, the conceptual device will incorporate Niantic’s product portfolio and AR distribution network.