One of the biggest challenges of smart glasses (outside of trying to make sure they’re not a privacy nightmare) is figuring out how to control them. So far, we’ve seen lots of different methods, including your standard taps and swipes on the arm, AI voice controls, as well as other more novel input methods like touch-sensitive smart rings and Meta’s muscle-reading Neural Band. One thing we haven’t seen, however, is eye tracking—or at least we haven’t seen it until now.
The Maverick AI Pro, which was unveiled by a company called Everysight this week, is the first pair of smart glasses with eye tracking, meaning it has an on-device camera that can follow your subtle eye movements and then translate them into inputs on the glasses. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it’s a defining feature of input systems on vastly more powerful and expensive devices like the Apple Vision Pro, which uses a mixture of hand and eye tracking.
I can’t say without using the Maverick AI Pro if its eye tracking actually works well, but based on early demos, it looks like another intriguing solution to the question of how to control face computers without it being an aggravating experience. Here’s a demo from YouTuber, Steven Sullivan showing how eye tracking on the smart glasses works and how it can be used to select apps on the smart glasses’ screen.
Outside of eye tracking, the Maverick AI Pro have quite a few impressive features, including a full-color OLED display (monocular, meaning it’s in just one eye) that can project a 130-inch virtual screen, a camera, and eight hours of battery life. One of the specs that jumped out to me more than others, though, was the fact that they weigh just 47g; somehow, 2g lighter than the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, which weigh 49g and don’t even have a screen. How exactly these smart glasses manage to do a lot more than Meta’s Ray-Bans while also weighing less is unclear, but it’s impressive nonetheless.
There are quite a few features built into the Maverick AI Pro, including navigation, translation, and computer vision that can identify objects in your surroundings—most of the stuff we’ve seen in every other pair. A feature I definitely have not seen in a pair of smart glasses yet, though, is sports-focused apps. In Sullivan’s video, he demonstrates how the Maverick AI Pro can be applied in sports like golf, using its camera to deliver metrics about your swing and other stats. That’s right, eye-tracking smart glasses are here to elevate your golf game, I guess?
The Maverick AI Pro aren’t fully launched yet, but crowdfunding opens on March 31, and Everysight says it expects to ship them in August of this year. Despite some specs that actually make the smart glasses more sophisticated than the Meta Ray-Ban Display, they’re a good deal cheaper than Meta’s high-end frames. The Maverick AI Pro have an early bird price of $359 but will MSRP at $599. Everysight also plans to sell a cheaper pair without eye tracking, the Maverick AI, which will launch at an early bird price of $299 and MSRP at $499.
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