Canon MREAL for Mixed Reality: a prohibitive Canon glasses to join the real world with the virtual, Few months ago, we know that Canon working hard to walk out on the balcony of Augmented Reality and looks very seriously. That is why the company has just started to show the first versions of MREAL System for Mixed Reality, a concept that little (or nothing) has to do with the famous Google glass but, as I advanced in its day, in principle is intended for industrial land.

The idea is that both designers and developers to create prototypes or manufacturers virtual versions of a given sketch and interleave with real objects to interact with them, and may knowingly decide whether to make any modifications to the original scheme.

The team consists of two parts: a pair of screen (HM-A1) with their headphones and a whole network of software (MP-100) that is actually enabling these optical illusions. The content is generated from a video of what surrounds the subject, which is captured by a pair of cameras placed in front of the user’s eyes, so that later in the clip is inserted graphics created by the computer. The result is shown in two small screens, creating, according to Canon’s own “three-dimensional images of great impact.” Beyond its potential use among manufacturers, the house said that the unit may also be used in various research, visits to museums or even as entertainment system, and its SDK developers will soon.

The first models will go on sale in the U.S. this March 1, with a whopping price of $ 125,000, which may even increase slightly depending on your configuration and then must add $ 25,000 a year in maintenance (ie, 94,600 and 18,900 euros respectively to change). With such an approach becomes a toy available to few pockets, but at least we have the consolation of being able cotillearlo more closely in the following pictures.