TCL NXTWEAR S review
Introduction
The TCL NXTWEAR S are marketed as XR glasses. That stands for Extended Reality and is actually an umbrella term that encompasses all VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) products. Although the NXTWEAR S glasses have an accelerometer, gyroscope and pressure sensor on board, we wouldn't call them smart glasses, since there is no "smart" functionality here. They are not really VR either, since there is no motion tracking and interacting to speak of. AR is also a stretch since there are no cameras or anything else to absorb and monitor the real world.
What you get with the NXTWEAR S is a portable display, the equivalent of about 130 inches in diagonal, floating in front of your eyes at a distance of around four meters. That is overlayed on top of a transparent glass panel that passes through what is in front of you as well.
The NXTWEAR S glasses are created by a Hong Kong company named RayNeo that TCL incubated and now goes by the name TCL RayNeo. The company is a leader in this sort of tech and in fact the NXTWEAR S is not its first device. They are actually a direct iterative upgrade over the NXTWEAR Air glasses, which made the rounds at tech conventions and with some reviewers, but weren't really openly sold. An older TCL NXTWEAR G device exists as well, but we can't find any direct correlation between it and the NXTWEAR S.