Attempting to compete with HoloLens
Augmented reality is certainly making its presence felt at this week's CES Asia technology show in Shanghai. AR has stepped out of the shadows and is just as prevalent on the exhibition floor as VR. Unfortunately some AR experiences fail to impress if you've already sampled the top-of-the-line AR headsets.
At first glance Shadow Creator's Halomini looks for all the world like Microsoft's HoloLens, but with a 7500 Yuan (AU$1500) price tag it's around half the price of Microsoft's slick augmented reality headset. Like the HoloLens, the Halomini is completely wireless with a built-in computer – although it runs on Android 6.0 instead of Windows. Unlike the HoloLens, the Halomini only features a single tracking camera on the front so it knows what you're looking at.
Like the HoloLens, the Halomini projects images onto the visor in front of your eyes, a bit like a fighter pilot's heads-up display which adds tactical information to their view of the sky. The Halomini matches the HoloLens' narrow 40-degree horizontal field of vision, but Shadow Creator is preparing to release the new Air model which is lighter, looks more like traditional glasses and offers a wider 60-degree field of vision.
