Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup - 3/24- 3/30

Mississauga welcomes Canada's first Apple Pickup station

Apple confirms Vision Pro launch in China later in 2024

Epic Games Store expands to mobile this year

Sonos expected to unveil new portable speaker and app in June

Samsung Galaxy Ring: Your smart kitchen assistant (maybe)

BOYA's BOYAMIC promises professional audio for content creators

Apple Pencil for Vision Pro?

Google tests AI-powered search reults with some US users who didn't opt-in

Galaxy S23 and other flagships to gain AI smarts with One UI 6.1 update

Spotify brings video learning courses (UK only for now)

Nothing Phone (2a) receives new update with focus on camera improvements

Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get smarter with multimodal AI

Apple poised for May launch of new iPads with OLED displays, larger Air model

Discover hidden gems and trending spots with Google Maps

Google confirms older Nest cameras are coming to the Home app

YouTube Music now lets you download songs for offline listening on web

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get smarter with multimodal AI

Photo: Meta

Get ready for a boost in brainpower for your shades! According to a recent New York Times report, Meta is bringing advanced AI features to its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses starting next month.

This multimodal AI can do some impressive tricks: translating languages on the fly and identifying objects, animals, and even famous landmarks. The feature has been in testing since last December through an early access program.

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Xiaomi's concept smart glasses have a MicroLED display

Xiaomi imagines what it wants smart glasses to look like with this new concept. The Xiaomi Smart Glasses feature a conventional glasses-like design. But, unlike the recently launched Facebook and Ray-Ban Stories, these get a display you can use for augmented reality features. 

Xiaomi adds a monochrome MicroLED system into these glasses. Xiaomi opted for this display tech because it has "higher pixel density and longer lifespan while having a simpler structure" than OLED. The company also says it "allows for a more compact display, as well as easier screen integration." MicroLED is considered a successor to OLED. But it is still prohibitively expensive at the moment.

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Lenovo ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses are capable of showing five virtual displays

Source: Lenovo

Lenovo introduces a new pair of enterprise-grade smart glasses that it says is "one of the most advanced and versatile" available. The ThinkReady A3 can be used for tasks like 3D visualization and augmented reality-guided workflows. It comes at a time when the world is "looking to adopt new technologies for smart collaboration. 

Unlike Lenovo's first ThinkReality model (the A6), these glasses look like a pair of chunky sunglasses. Lenovo says it can modify these to have industrial frames to make them sturdier and safer.

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