Wearing the TCL RayNeo X3 Pros, I Saw a Vision of What AR Smart Glasses Should Be

The bread and butter of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the slew of new phones that companies unveil at the show every year. But MWC is also a popular place for companies creating wearable tech to show off their latest innovations -- companies like TCL, for instance, which is best known for its TVs, and increasingly its Nxtpaper phones and tablets, but that also makes smart glasses. When it comes to face-worn tech apparatuses, competition is really heating up, and TCL's RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses, first announced at CES, provide a compelling alternative to more-basic smart glasses, such as the Meta Ray-Bans. Meta's smart glasses don't have displays in the lenses, but the X3 Pro glasses do -- thanks to projections onto the glass using wave guides. Based on the smallest micro-LED light engine, the 2,500-nit, full-color display is visible while you're wearing the glasses, even in bright sunlight. I tried on the X3 Pros at MWC, but unfortunately it was inside a dark convention center ... Read full article.