AR glasses are a very popular gadget nowadays, especially Microsoft’s Hololens. The functions are indeed powerful, but the price of tens of thousands is really difficult for ordinary people like us to accept. Recently, industrial design students at the University of Vent in the Netherlands developed Aryzon, a high-quality and affordable AR glasses with a shell made of cardboard.
When in use, the user places the smartphone at the bottom of the carton, with the screen of the phone facing the user and the camera of the phone facing forward, so that the user can observe the real world through the tilted lenses on the top of the glasses. .
The 3D stereoscopic image displayed on the mobile phone screen can be refracted to Aryzons transparent lens through the Fresnel lens, and then superimposed onto the real scene, thereby realizing the users AR experience.
A companion app uses your phone’s camera to identify and track real-world objects and keep them centered. When the user picks up or moves the target object, the image on the screen will also move with it. The app can also use the phones accelerometer and gyroscope to determine whether the user is moving and adjust the angle of the screen accordingly.
The design of Aryzon is very similar to Google Cardboard platform, comes with quick installation instructions. Aryzon provides something like a QR code that tracks the environment while displaying content. The crowdfunding campaign will end on July 3, 2017. If you are interested, you can support it.
