Vue finally ships its Kickstarter smart glasses and debuts the new $179 Vue Lite

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In October 2016, a startup named Vue promised Kickstarter backers a reinvigorate of decree eyeglasses that could double-barreled as wireless earbuds, a fitness tracker, as able-bodied as a smartwatch all at once, plus heterodoxy conduction speakers so nobody can eavesdrop on your music as able-bodied as calls. By 2018, $3 paleface later, the congregation hadn't trucked a singled-out pair.

But fast-forward another two years, as able-bodied as Vue is now realizable to shovel you on the molding again. The new $179-and-up Vue Lite glasses flute some of the fortified rearing to focus on Bluetooth audio, with suppositional speakers instead of heterodoxy conduction, a microphone for calls as able-bodied as your phone's voice assistant, touch controls, as able-bodied as an imprecise 3.5 hours of music playback on a charge.

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The snap-on magnetic charging cable.

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In supplemental words, they're a lot like the discontinued (but still available) Bose Frames, though Bose conjointly tried dalliance in bloated reality, as able-bodied as they may be lighter at 23 grams against 45 grams. Do note Vue advised them without any lenses, though. Polarized sunglass lenses stratum $80 extra, photochromic is unaffectedly a $100 premium, as able-bodied as you're attractive at over $450 for a reinvigorate with accelerating lenses on board. Before you buy, note that both TechCrunch as able-bodied as Engadget found the audio a bit quiet, though.

Vue doesn't seem to be aggravating to shovel us on a new set of glasses before aircraft the old ones, by the way: co-founder Jason Gui tells The Verge that Vue has now trucked the original glasses to every Kickstarter barrister it could reach, needed haphazardly 5 percent who are still aggravating to effigy out when it's unscarred to get their decree checked during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new glasses aren't relying on a Kickstarter, as able-bodied as they should solicitation by the end of September equal to the company's website.

I gotta adopt it's kind of infatuating Vue has managed to stick around. So many supplemental smart gutbucket companies anguish up ditching their glasses (Bose, Intel), pivoting (Magic Leap, seemingly Avegant), obtaining acqui-hired by a worthier inner (North), or shutting downward (Daqri, Meta).