14 DAY TRIAL // Lumus has introduced a consumer electronics device that somewhat resembles the Google Glass but is also very different from it, mostly due to the nature of the right lens, which isn't really a lens at all.
Instead, the DK-40 heads up display (HUD) has a transparent screen on the right, with a native resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
That might seem really amusing for some, because many of us still remember the times when PC monitors of 20 inches had that resolution.
Technology really has come a long way if a glasses lens now has the same visual quality as once-upon-a-time monitors. Especially since the lens is also transparent.
Lumus DK-40 doesn't act the same way as Google Glass. One might even say that it's tedious to keep comparing all wearable headsets to it, but that one is the first that came out, or rather the first that got outlined, so it's natural to hold it as something to measure against.
Google Glass displays information on what you're looking at in your peripheral vision, but the new item from Lumus can show it anywhere in the line of sight of your right eye.
It also has a motion sensor and a 5-megapixel camera, without which the DK-40 could not be called a true augmented reality headset.
Sadly, the Lumus glasses aren't ready for commercialization yet. What you see in that picture up on the left is just a prototype that only lasts for one or two hours before the battery depletes.
We also don't know how the device connects to other things, like phones, although we presume Bluetooth.
In fact, besides the things we have already revealed, Lumus has only specified that the DK-40 runs Android. In the end, the company is primarily interested in marketing its lenses. Still, the glasses and the development kit will be available in the first quarter of 2014, to OEMs and developers anyway.