ODG's R-8 smart glasses, pictured on CNET's Shara Tibken, weigh only 4.2 ounces. "This is so much bigger than just a device, it's about a whole new computing medium that will transform how we interact and discover information and engage with people and objects in the world around us," ODG CEO Ralph Osterhout said in a statement. The R-9 offers a 50-degree field of vision and will run special business applications. The use of the flagship Snapdragon 835 chip in the R-8 and R-9, rather than in a high-profile phone, speaks to Qualcomm's push to make its chips useful in different kinds of hardware. The company has been pushing to get its brains into other devices, including wearables, drones and smart speakers, to diversify itself from its core phone business.

These wearables aren't cheap, The R-9 will cost $1,799 when it hits the market in the second quarter, ODG plans to ship a developer version of the R-8 for less than $1,000 in the second half of 2017, The Snapdragon 835, which uses a new process that makes the chip smaller and more power-efficient, allows manufacturers to design more compact devices, ODG has made cassettes, vhs & games iphone case smart glasses before, but never this small, The chip's size makes for glasses that aren't just a piece of technology, but a fashion statement..

"They are not regular sunglasses," Hugo Swart, head of Qualcomm's home entertainment business, said in an interview last month. "But they're getting there."Update at 6:30 p.m. with additional details about the glasses from ODG interview. Update at 10 a.m. PT on Jan. 4 with additional details and photos. Get ready to watch films, experience augmented reality and virtual reality, and play games through a pair of slim sunglasses. If the future is that bright, these are the shades you gotta wear. At Qualcomm's CES press conference on Tuesday, Osterhout Design Group showed off a pair of smart glasses running on Android and powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 powerhouse chip -- the kind of processing power that usually runs a high-end phone like a Samsung Galaxy S7 or Google Pixel.

Qualcomm's new chip, the Snapdragon 835 (center) is 35 percent smaller than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 820 (left), Qualcomm said the processor will be used in everything from smartphones to PCs, It will power VR headsets that rely on phones (like the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View) and standalone VR and AR devices, like Osterhout Design Group's R-8 AR/VR smartglasses, also unveiled Tuesday, "Everyone wants their phone to have a greater degree of contextual awareness and [do it] at a lower power," Keith Kressin, Qualcomm senior vice president of product management, said in an interview last month ahead of CES, "Relative to our previous generation [chip], 835 is better in every respect."Qualcomm makes more wireless cassettes, vhs & games iphone case chips than any other company on the planet, and its high-end processors dictate what our mobile devices can do, The company's Snapdragon processors are used in designs from Samsung, LG and others, and Apple uses Qualcomm's LTE chips in the iPhone..

Devices using Snapdragon 835 will hit the market in the first half of the year. Phones powered by the chip will likely make their debut at the Mobile World Congress trade show next month. The Samsung Galaxy S7, unveiled at last year's MWC, was among the first phones that hit the market with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor. The octa-core Snapdragon 835 features a CPU with four cores running up to 2.45GHz and four lower-power cores running up to 1.9GHz. Qualcomm focused on five areas while developing the new chip: battery life, immersion, camera quality, connectivity and security.