For the previous a number of years, the halls of the Las Vegas Conference Heart have been awful with AR/VR/XR good glasses. Whereas the a few of the largest names in tech, like Apple and Google, have struggled to achieve traction within the class, accessible tech stays comparatively unexplored.
There’s numerous work to be executed by way of making the area extra welcoming for extra folks. Soliddd is one among a rising variety of startups exploring the hyperlink between good glasses and accessibility.
This week at CES 2025, the corporate is showcasing a prototype model of its forthcoming SolidddVision glasses. The Brooklyn-based startup is particularly concentrating on folks with macular degeneration. The degenerative eye illness impacts roughly 13% of U.S. residents aged 40 and up, in keeping with figures from the CDC.
The startup explains the know-how like so:
“The smartglasses use Soliddd’s distinctive and proprietary lens arrays, which resemble a fly’s eye, to venture a number of separate pictures to the areas of the retina that aren’t broken. This enables the mind to naturally assemble stereopsis (the making of a 3D picture within the mind) and a single full-field picture with good acuity that seems like regular, in-focus sight.”
The product is presently in beta and subsequently seems to be a very good deal completely different than the renders Soliddd has supplied right here. Of their last kind, they need to feel and look extra like a normal set of eyeglasses.
There’s nonetheless numerous work and testing to be executed, however the firm optimistically believes that the glasses will ship in some unspecified time in the future in 2025. Whereas Soliddd is conducting scientific glasses, it notes that they finally gained’t require FDA approval earlier than hitting the market.
