Last week rereleased information on the lawsuit that Magic Leap has filed against Chinese-Based competitor Nreal. In this lawsuit, Magic Leap had accused Nreal founded and CEO Chi Xu of “wrongfully used and disclosed to Nreal and its collaborators the confidential and proprietary information to which he obtained access as a former Magic Leap employee.”
Nreal has finally responded to this and has denied the entire accusation.
The Nreal statement is from a spokesperson and not from Chi Xu himself, as it states “We have heard about the recent media reports regarding Nreal and Magic Leap,” as it goes on to say “Nreal believes that these rumors and accusations are false and anticompetitive in nature. Without additional information we’re not able to provide further comment.”
Nreal is like Magic Leap in many ways, but the company is original in its own ways as well. Nreal is working on AR sunglasses right now called Nreal Light. The idea is to project virtual and augmented objects in the real world for users to see and interact with. Customers of this project will be able to interact with the objects Nreal’s three degrees of freedom motion controller. This pair of glasses can be powered by a mobile device with a Snapdragon 855 chipset or anything better. Like the Magic Leap headset, the glasses can also be paired with a external power and computing hub. The glasses from Nreal are promising, and they have a only have a little ways to go before getting into the common consumers hands.
“Nreal Light was developed with the vision that we would be able to make mixed reality technology accessible to everyone, in a familiar sunglass form factor,” the company goes on to say. “Along the way, through hard work we discovered breakthroughs and finally managed to unveil Nreal Light at CES 2019. We’ve appreciated the excitement around how Nreal has reinvigorated the AR/MR industry and have continued to work hard to develop innovative consumer-friendly solutions, including allowing our Nreal Light to be powered by smartphones. And we remain committed to allowing all people to see the world in a whole new Light.”
The Nreal Light glasses are expected to ship out this year, but with a lawsuit pending this could be stretched out past their desired ship date.
As we know, startups usually have trouble getting off of the ground and shipping their first project. Although Nreal is plenty big, and with the lawsuit aside, we still don’t know if their product is in the final stages of production as it should be, and with the company being slowed down by the lawsuit, they are unlikely to releases statements on the products availability.
One thing we know is that no matter when this product is finally ready for the public, everyone will be impressed by it. The technology inside the eyewear and the software that is in the external hub is something worth noticing.
