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Lenovo ThinkReality A3 smart glasses now official

Lenovo has recently introduced its latest innovation, the ThinkReality A3 smart glasses.

The ThinkReality A3 lightweight smart glasses is the company’s one of the most advanced and versatile enterprise smart glasses. This product is part of its comprehensive digital solutions offering intelligent transformation in business and delivering smarter technology to many people.

The AR smart glasses are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Platform for high-quality performance and feature stereoscopic 1080p displays offering the user up to 5 virtual displays. It comes with an 8MP RGB camera that provides 1080p video for remote expert use cases, while the dual fish-eye cameras provide room-scale tracking. However, the device tethers to a PC or on select Motorola smartphones1 through a USB-C cable depending on smart workers’ needs. The ThinkReality A3 fits like sunglasses and can be enhanced with industrial frame options for safer and more durable use.

“The A3 is a next-generation augmented reality solution – light, powerful and versatile. The smart glasses are part of a comprehensive, integrated digital solution from Lenovo that includes the advanced AR device, ThinkReality software, and Motorola mobile phones. Whether working in virtual spaces or supporting remote assistance, the ThinkReality A3 enhances workers’ abilities to do more wherever they are,” Lenovo Vice President of Strategy and Emerging Business, Intelligent Device Group, Jon Pershke stated.

The ThinkReality A3 PC Edition tethers to a laptop or mobile workstation to allow users to position multiple, large virtual monitors in their field of view and use Windows software tools and applications. With this, virtual monitors expand PCs’ value for productivity, privacy, and immersive experiences for various industries, such as finance, architecture, and engineering. Moreover, the virtual monitors are optimized and compatible with Lenovo’s leading ThinkPad laptops and mobile workstations equipped with Intel and AMD Ryzen processors.

On the other hand, the ThinkReality A3 Industrial Edition tethers to select Motorola smartphones1 for hands-free, AR-supported tasks in complex work environments. The Industrial Edition is backed with the ThinkReality software platform, which lets commercial customers build, deploy, and manage mixed reality applications and content globally.

The industrial edition is ideal for use in scenarios from factory floors and laboratories to busy retail and hospitality spaces, certified turnkey applications on the ThinkReality platform powers remote assistance, guided workflows, and 3D visualization. Through this, industrial workers will have a light, flexible, and scalable set of smart glasses to boost their productivity and safety while minimizing error rates in their daily tasks.

Not just that, Lenovo’s ThinkReality platform also helps accelerate the adoption of the next generation of wearable computing, offering smarter technology to enable smarter workers. With the developing ThinkReality cloud-agnostic ecosystem of hardware and software solutions, enterprises have more options to build and deploy mixed reality technologies to improve businesses.

Lenovo AR devices include the ThinkReality A3 smart glasses and A6 headset. The ThinkReality A6 headset features a full-featured sensor array, expandable memory, 1080p resolution waveguide optics, and a removable battery for extended use of the head-mounted display.

The Lenovo ThinkReality A3 smart glasses will soon arrive in select markets globally, starting mid-2021. There’s no word yet about its pricing, so stay tuned!