How we came up with new AR glasses technology (hardware)

At present, it is difficult to find technology on the AR glasses market (or perhaps it does not exist at all) that would make AR glasses not only the lot of geeks, but also introduce technology into people's everyday life. In this post, we want to talk about how we tried to come up with and assemble AR glasses based on new technology . Well, along the way, we will tell you which rake we went and in which direction it is better not to move.

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PPS Thanks to all the AR_Global team (Anna P, Vera P, Misha E), who was directly involved in the development of the technology and its implementation as a prototype. Thanks to the entire NanoLab team for their support .