Osterhout Design Group is known for the super cool smart glasses it makes. Though these glasses are something which appeal to enterprise customers and developers technically (and financially too!), normal people like you and me would also love to have a pair. At this year’s CES, ODG showcased two of its new models- the new R-7 model, which has a 30-degree field of view and is available to order now for an enterprise-priced US$2,750, along with an unreleased prototype that’s very similar to the R-7 but has a 1080p display with a 50-degree field of view.

The glasses are amazing as these include 64 GB storage, 3 GB RAM and a Snapdragon 805 processor in the R-7. Though these are still bulky if you wear them, they don’t make you look odd like the Google Glass. They just look like a pair of bulky sports glasses. Let’s hope ODG works towards getting these lighter and subtler.

So what do you see when you wear these? These glasses let you see an amazing high-resolution display centred in the lower half of your field of view. Capable of supporting 3D content with stereoscopic imagery, the glasses hit a nice balance of transparency and immersion. You can easily see through (and around) the display to catch what’s going on around you, but it’s still opaque enough to fully absorb the displayed 720p content. The glasses boast of a custom version of Android KitKat, so sideloading Android apps and movie files alone could give you plenty of options for traditional content. In addition to this, it is also easy to control. You can use either a trackpad on the glasses or a paired handheld controller.

As of now, ODG’s current focus is on encouraging developers to build the apps that will bring the glasses to life. Hope the developers refine it soon to be used by people like us, and whenever that happens, one thing is for sure, these glasses will make an interesting wearable.