Always wanted a Mission Impossible type of sunglasses? Your dream might have just come true

Xiaomi has uncovered a pair of brilliant smart glasses that plan to replace smart phones sooner rather than later. Simply called the Xiaomi Smart Glasses, they resemble a couple of standard clear displays. Nonetheless, they include "microLED optical waveguide innovation" for lens display capabilities . Xiaomi says that its new and first pair of brilliant smart glasses can be utilized for calling, navigation, viewing messages, taking pictures, and much more.

They use a 0.13-inch microLED display that's smaller than a grain of rice.

It hovers a 0.13-inch microLED display, which is smaller than a grain of rice, hidden inside the frame of the Xiaomi Smart Glasses. It gets individual pixels sized at 4μm. Like OLEDs, microLED pixels are individually lit and allow for brighter displays and deeper blacks. The chip powering the display measures just 2.4mm x 2.02mm. At the heart of it all is a quad-core ARM processor and an Android operating system.

According to Xiaomi, they have opted for a monochrome display which is capable of reaching a peak brightness of two million nits. Through the reflection and diffusion of the optical waveguide lens, the human eye can see a much larger display.

“The refraction process involves bouncing light beams countless times, allowing the human eye to see a complete image, and greatly increasing usability while wearing. All this is done inside a single lens, instead of using complicated multiples lens systems, mirrors, or half mirrors as some other products do,” Xiaomi explains in its blog post.

In a tweet posted by LeiJun founder and CEO of Xiaomi, introduced the smart glasses to the world 

https://twitter.com/leijun/status/1437596967811620865?s=19

The company is pushing its new concept smart glasses as an independent smart wearable, not a secondary smartphone display.  Xiaomi has also implemented interaction logic into the glasses to minimize unnecessary interruptions and display only key information.  

There’s also a built-in microphone in there that uses a proprietary translation algorithm for real-time translations and transcribing audio into text. 

For imaging, the smart glasses house a 5MP camera on the front. The indicator light next to the camera illuminates when the camera is in use to indicate that photos are being taken. 

As these are just a concept glasses, there’s no word on their actual availability or will even be mass produced for consumers. Xiaomi will likely not bring them to market, but it’s possible the company is imagining a future product that might integrate all this tech.