증강 월드 엑스포의 웨어러블 기술 혁신

### 증강 월드 엑스포에서 살펴본 웨어러블 AR 기술의 미래
* 👓 이번 증강 월드 엑스포에서 Apple과 Meta와 같은 기업들은 현재 가장 큰 규모를 자랑하는 **Apple 비전 프로와 Meta 퀘스트 3 등 AR 기술을 위한 가장 다양한 빌딩 블록**을 선보이고 있습니다.
* 🔍 Lumis와 같은 회사는 디스플레이 투사용 소형 고품질 렌즈 개발에 주력하고 있으며, **Avant는 AR 안경용 투사 시스템을 소형화하기 위해 조명 엔진**을 개발 중입니다.
* 🖐 전력 소모가 많은 센서 없이 손동작을 추적하는 문제를 해결하기 위해, 울트라랩은 **메타 레이밴드 안경의 수정된 버전**에 내장된 저전력 카메라를 시연했습니다.
* ⌚ 스마트워치와 같은 웨어러블 디바이스도 AR 기술의 연결 인터페이스로 검토되고 있으며, **Double Point 및 Tap XR과 같은 회사에서는 제스처 기반 제어 솔루션**을 개발하고 있습니다.
* 🧠 AI는 사물을 식별하고, 도움을 제공하고, 다양한 서비스를 제공하는 등 AR 글래스에서 중요한 역할을 합니다. 하지만 이러한 AI 서비스를 제공하려면 **안경 자체의 기능을 뛰어넘는 강력한 프로세서**가 필요합니다.
* 📱 Meta 및 XRE와 같은 회사는 **AR 글래스를 스마트폰과 페어링**하거나 **XRE의 더 빔 프로와 같은 독립형 디바이스**를 개발하여 프로세서 문제를 해결하고 있습니다.
* 🤚 햅틱 장갑은 감정을 불러일으키거나 감정적 경험과 연결되는 새로운 감각을 만들어내는 **Tactile과 같은 회사에서 AR 경험의 핵심 요소**로 부상하고 있습니다.
* 🛣 웨어러블 AR 기술의 미래는 아직 불확실하며, 올바른 조합을 찾기 위해 다양한 실험적 구성 요소가 개발되고 있습니다. **완벽한 웨어러블 AR 안경은 아직 실현되지 않았지만, AI로 구동되고 손동작으로 작동하며 디스플레이, 헤드폰, 안경의 역할**을 할 수 있을 것으로 예상됩니다.

웨어러블 안경의 미래에는 지속적인 실험과 완벽한 제품의 부재에도 불구하고 AI, 햅틱, 작고 다재다능한 빌딩 블록이 포함될 것입니다.

ah, I'm riding around a racetrack. Well, I'm here at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach. You can see the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 all over the show floor for things like haptics and art experiences, riding horses around, and mixed reality on the show floor, or for things like drawing and art with things like Logitech's mixed reality pen. That's because they're the most versatile building blocks that are available right now, but they're big. Then the next step is to make these things smaller, and there are companies showing how that can be done. First of all, the lenses. I met with a company called Lumis talking about how small and good the lenses can be for projecting displays, and they looked really good. The question is, who's going to adopt them? There are also companies like Avant that are building light engines, ways to shrink down the ways that you project onto those glasses. There are also companies trying to track how to do hand gestures because a lot of those expensive mixed

reality headsets. Well, they have their own built-in power-hungry sensors, right on here. Company Ultraleap is showing how you can have low-power cameras built into a hacked version of Meta Rayband glasses to do things like micro gestures on the go. And eventually, Meta Raybands may get cameras like that or other future smart glasses. Also, there's your watch. There are so many ways that your watch could work as a connected interface, and I've been waiting for that double point is one company I saw here that's using gestures to control your TV or smart lights. And eventually, yes, work with glasses as well. And they're using a modified software package on Samsung watches. There's also Tap XR that's doing its own custom-built wearable that has a camera and some sensory capabilities to do that type of stuff. So I saw companies kind of offloading that, and it doesn't feel like we're far away from having that then work with the glasses. But again, it gets to what's the software AI is all over.

the place right now, and you can see companies pivoting. Of course, they would because it's a big hype-filled thing, but there are also useful things that AI can do on glasses. You could identify things by asking about them. You could have it eventually begin to recognize things and assist you. Met is experimenting with this already, and the limit to that though is that you're going to have to figure out how to deliver those services over into some processor that you're carrying with you. These glasses are not enough. Metas Ray-Bands pair with your phone. XRE connect with your phone. XRE actually built its own little device that looks like a phone called The Beam Pro. This $200 basically almost phone that's an Android-powered thing. It's trying to be the phone concept for a world where phones don't perfectly work with AR glasses yet, and XRE's product has the ability to, you know, become a touchpad or launch apps in mixed reality and cast them up and make them more compatible instead of just mirroring your display. It also has an

extra p through USBC port for charging while also wearing the glasses. It takes spatial photos with more widely spaced cameras. Some of these ideas are probably going to come to phones, but the phone compatibility for these is already really inconsistent. And then you've got the wild cards like haptic gloves. There are giant ones like haptics, there are mid-range ones like sense glove that pull back on your fingers, and also vibrate, and also have something that squeezes your hand. And then there's bhaptics, which basically has a whole bunch of vibrating Motors all over your body, on vests, and wrist pieces, and gloves. And a lot of this may sound really gimmicky, but I also saw a really moving art piece called I will defy you that moved me to tears and used haptics to express the emotions of somebody who had survived an attempted electroshock gender conversion therapy experience. I'm feeling moved even talking about it. Those vibrations gave me a sense of connection. Taptic is trying out New

Sensations that will eventually kind of create sensations of emotion, or connect to things that we tag to emotion. I don't think we have a clear understanding of where all these pieces will come next, and so I'm not ready to dismiss any one of them yet. If you walk around L show like awe, it's all experimental. All of these pieces are trying to find one bit here, one bit here. Some of it's practical, some of it's wild, and the big companies like Apple and Meta are not that present here. So these companies are trying to find a way to explore the future, and I think the future is a moving point. We don't have a product that's perfect yet. We don't have the iPhone of your perfect wearable glasses yet. I think they're going to be something like this. I think they're going to work with your hands. I think they're going to be AI-powered, and I think they're going to work as displays sometimes, or also be headphones, and also be glasses. Probably will take a couple of years to get there. You seeing just

the beginning steps of that here. But it feels a lot more possible now than it did before. I just don't know when I'm going to be able to buy the perfect one yet.

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애플 비전 프로와 메타 퀘스트 3를 비롯한 혼합 현실 기술은 현재 증강 월드 엑스포에서 다양성과 몰입형 경험에 중점을 둔 혼합 현실 기술이 주류를 이루고 있습니다.

Lumis와 Avant 같은 회사는 차세대 혼합 현실 안경을 위해 렌즈와 조명 엔진을 소형화하기 위해 노력하고 있습니다.

울트라랩은 손동작을 위한 저전력 카메라의 사용을 시연하고 있으며, 탭 XR은 감각 기능을 갖춘 맞춤형 웨어러블을 개발하고 있습니다.

혼합 현실 기술과 스마트 안경 및 시계의 미래 통합과 AI의 역할은 이번 행사의 핵심 초점입니다.

스마트 글래스에서 AI의 역할과 햅틱 기술의 진화

AI가 스마트 글래스에 적용되어 사물을 식별하고 인식할 수 있게 되면서 Met와 XRE와 같은 회사가 그 선두에 서고 있습니다.

XRE는 AR 글래스의 기능을 향상시키고 현재의 휴대폰 호환성 불일치 문제를 해결하기 위해 안드로이드 기반 디바이스인 빔 프로를 개발했습니다.

진동 모터가 장착된 장갑과 조끼를 포함한 햅틱 기술은 독특하고 몰입감 있는 경험을 제공할 뿐만 아니라 예술 작품 "I Will Defy You"에서 볼 수 있듯이 감정을 표현하는 데에도 활용되고 있습니다.

Apple이나 Meta 같은 대기업은 웨어러블 기술의 실험적 탐색에 크게 관여하지 않습니다.

웨어러블 기술의 미래는 디스플레이, 헤드폰, 안경의 역할을 하는 AI 기반, 손으로 제어할 수 있는 다기능 제품이 될 것으로 예상됩니다.

하지만 완벽한 제품은 아직 개발되지 않았으며, 그 시점에 도달하려면 몇 년이 걸릴 수도 있습니다.

시기의 불확실성에도 불구하고 완벽한 내 집 마련은 이제 더 쉽게 달성할 수 있을 것 같습니다.