They are called Relumino and it is the second stage of a project of the Korean firm that started as a virtual reality application.
After a while as an application for Samsung's virtual reality viewers, the Korean company has decided to take the Relumino project one step further. Samsung has announced the creation of glasses, currently at the prototype level, which implement a system with camera and double viewfinder to establish various aids for people with severe vision problems.
The new glasses, which will be presented during the impending CES of Las Vegas, the self-named largest consumer electronics technology fair on the planet, are one of the first smart glasses with really useful and noticeable functionality. Like the original application, whose technology had been developed since 2012, they have five main tasks, each one designed and designed to combat a different type of vision difficulty. At the moment, there is no final date for the arrival to the market, nor definitive price.
If you want to try the advance, and you have a Samsung Galaxy S7, S8 or Note 8 (and Gear VR support, of course), you can go to the manufacturer's website. There you will find an enrollment form that will give you a special access code that you must enter in the traditional Oculus app of Gear VR. The process is somewhat complicated, but it is worth trying if you have some kind of vision problems.
Reverse the color to improve reading
When the Relumino identify that the user is viewing a book, they will automatically adapt to a mode that will improve the image by inverting the colors to add a much higher contrast and configured by the user. In this way, they can devote themselves to reading with much more ease and with less effort.
Scotoma
The scotoma is a blind spot in the center of vision that some people suffer from physical ocular or optic nerve injury, or even due to migraines. This makes those who suffer from this disease visualize darkness in everything they see and have to make use of peripheral vision to recognize faces or try to identify an object.
Relumino solves this by moving the image located in the center of the camera and clocking it in a lateral point selected by the user. In this way, you can look directly at something and see it physically with another part of the eye and the optic nerve, thereby deceiving the brain.
Glaucoma and vision in tunnel
With this pathology, only the center of the image can be seen more or less correctly, with the sides completely or partially obscured. It is, traditionally, one of the most common afflictions in older people. The solution to this problem is to reuse the camera present in the center of the glasses and then the processor compresses the entire scene that is being viewed in a central area defined by the carrier.
In this way, the scene is presented in a smaller space but where the patient's vision has a higher quality, allowing details to be identified that until now were lost.
Increase in contrast
Finally, the system can be configured to increase the contrast or color balance of everything we see. The processor will filter the images in real time adding force to the lines to define what we see, or reducing the brightness automatically where necessary. The system is currently smart enough to switch between modes of use, so that if it identifies a book, it activates the predefined concrete contrast filters.