Bloomberg addresses that the corporation will probably be called Vaunt; the smart glasses are reportedly known privately as “Superlite,” and will be made by Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer. They’ll match with a phone via Bluetooth, and use a laser projector to display data in the wearer’s field of view.
The new business reportedly includes some past employees from Recon Instruments, the AR wearables corporation that Intel acquired in 2015 and shut down last year. If Bloomberg report is true, this will be far from Intel’s first move into augmented reality. The business has worked with industrial AR headset company Daqri and tried to launch a VR-like “merged reality” headset design known as Project Alloy, although that was rejected last year.
Despite how little we know here, the idea of popular smart glasses backed by a major player like Intel which would support a stake in the enterprise is an exciting one, since most businesses that have expressed interest in glasses-based AR have also downplayed its short-term value. Amazon is reportedly working on Alexa-powered glasses, but Apple, Facebook, and Google are all publicly concentrating on phone-based AR for now. Smaller businesses like Vuzix, however, are moving into space. And based on Bloomberg description, it’s hard to say how grand Intel’s plans really are.
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