 A lot of tech companies are working on AR glasses right now and in the early days it kind of feels like everyone's trying to justify why AR glasses should be a thing. For some companies that may mean making sports goggles and for others it may mean making AR glasses for entertainment purposes. For Toshiba, it means basically putting a PC on your face. These are Toshiba's new Dyna Edge AR smart glasses. They start shipping today and they start at $1,900. Toshiba is aiming these at enterprise customers. Think people who work out in the field and might need remote assistance but their hands are tied up so it might not be easy to just use their phone. So this is the display arm of the AR headset. There's a display that I'm looking at right now in my right eye. There's also a camera built in and there's a microphone for voice control but really the majority of everything that's happening is happening on this. This is the Toshiba Dyna Edge Mini Mobile PC. It's running on an Intel Core m5 processor. It's running Windows 10. It has 16 gigabytes of RAM, 512 gigabytes of internal storage. It's basically an entire computer packed into this little thing and this is running all the applications that I'm seeing in my eyes. So this is not the computer here. Some AR headsets that we've seen have been full-fledged face computers. This is really a display set. The glasses also have a swipe panel on the side and you can eventually use your voice to control them but that wasn't working yet when I tried them. I should also mention that even though they're called AR smart glasses this isn't really AR like the kind you've seen lately. It's just a flat display resting in front of your eye. Toshiba says that's because the kind of apps they envision people using with these, whether it's referencing a document or a PDF or making a quick Skype call, doesn't really need volumetric AR. So in this case I'm actually gonna make a phone call to somebody who is, in this case across the room, but imagine it's a remote worker. I'm gonna go into an application. It's called Call the Operator. This is custom Toshiba software built on top of Skype. So basically it's using Skype over Wi-Fi and I'm gonna select that application using the computer. I'm gonna go down. Right now I'm scrolling through a list of names. I'm gonna find Philip and I'm giving him a call. Hi Lauren. Hey Philip, how's it going? It's going okay. So listen I'm having some trouble out in the field here and I wanted to get a second opinion on this thing that I'm working on. What are you seeing right now? Yeah I can see the camera and I can see the guys behind it. Okay. Hi Felicia. Hey Tyler. They're not both guys but that's okay. What's a use case for this beyond just you know troubleshooting a Verge video remotely? A use case is you can show me what you're seeing and I can help you and try to fix it as quickly as possible. So when I first put these on they weren't super comfortable to me and that may be because the display was on my right eye and I'm left eye dominant but even after I switched to the left eye it still didn't feel great to me. Other people at the Verge tried it on they were a little more comfortable for them. One of the good things is that you can adjust the arm that the display is on so you can sort of just twist it or position it in a way that makes sense for you. You can also easily slide the arm into non glass form factors like a safety helmet. So you would just be wearing the helmet the arm would slide in front of you and then you'd have the display and also that kind of stable fitting thing made the display feel a little bit more comfortable. But there is just a learning curve when you first put them on. I mean you're not supposed to look directly at the display the whole time you're wearing them. You're supposed to focus on what you're doing in the real world and then when you need it glance up to the display so you can refer to it. And this way it's not too dissimilar from some very early iterations of AR glasses that we've seen like Google Glass. And it's different from HoloLens because HoloLens really just kind of covers your whole face and even though it's AR or mixed reality makes you feel enveloped in the world around you this doesn't really have that effect. So to call these AR glasses feels like a little bit of a misnomer and the pair I saw wasn't totally production ready. But like I said these are still new and Toshiba plans to run tests with its early customers to improve the glasses. And who knows maybe in the meantime more people will actually grow to love computers on their faces. I'm seeing... I'm not seeing you. How's that happening? You're not supposed to see me. I'm only supposed to see what you're seeing so you can concentrate on your job. Okay so let's do that over again.
 A lot of tech companies are working on AR glasses right now and in the early
 days it kind of feels like everyone's trying to justify why AR glasses should
 be a thing. For some companies that may mean making sports goggles and for
 others it may mean making AR glasses for entertainment purposes. For Toshiba, it
 means basically putting a PC on your face. These are Toshiba's new Dyna Edge
 AR smart glasses. They start shipping today and they start at $1,900. Toshiba is
 aiming these at enterprise customers. Think people who work out in the field
 and might need remote assistance but their hands are tied up so it might not
 be easy to just use their phone. So this is the display arm of the AR headset.
 There's a display that I'm looking at right now in my right eye. There's also a
 camera built in and there's a microphone for voice control but really the
 majority of everything that's happening is happening on this. This is the
 Toshiba Dyna Edge Mini Mobile PC. It's running on an Intel Core m5 processor.
 It's running Windows 10. It has 16 gigabytes of RAM, 512 gigabytes of
 internal storage. It's basically an entire computer packed into this little
 thing and this is running all the applications that I'm seeing in my eyes.
 So this is not the computer here. Some AR headsets that we've seen have been
 full-fledged face computers. This is really a display set. The glasses also
 have a swipe panel on the side and you can eventually use your voice to control
 them but that wasn't working yet when I tried them. I should also mention that
 even though they're called AR smart glasses this isn't really AR like the
 kind you've seen lately. It's just a flat display resting in front of your eye.
 Toshiba says that's because the kind of apps they envision people using with
 these, whether it's referencing a document or a PDF or making a quick
 Skype call, doesn't really need volumetric AR. So in this case I'm
 actually gonna make a phone call to somebody who is, in this case across the
 room, but imagine it's a remote worker. I'm gonna go into an application. It's
 called Call the Operator. This is custom Toshiba software built on top of Skype.
 So basically it's using Skype over Wi-Fi and I'm gonna select that application
 using the computer. I'm gonna go down. Right now I'm scrolling through a list
 of names. I'm gonna find Philip and I'm giving him a call. Hi Lauren. Hey
 Philip, how's it going? It's going okay. So listen I'm having some trouble out in the
 field here and I wanted to get a second opinion on this thing that I'm working
 on. What are you seeing right now? Yeah I can see the camera and I can see the guys
 behind it. Okay. Hi Felicia. Hey Tyler. They're not both guys but that's okay.
 What's a use case for this beyond just you know troubleshooting a Verge video
 remotely? A use case is you can show me what you're seeing and I can help you
 and try to fix it as quickly as possible. So when I first put these on they
 weren't super comfortable to me and that may be because the display was on my
 right eye and I'm left eye dominant but even after I switched to the left eye it
 still didn't feel great to me. Other people at the Verge tried it on they
 were a little more comfortable for them. One of the good things is that you can
 adjust the arm that the display is on so you can sort of just twist it or
 position it in a way that makes sense for you. You can also easily slide the
 arm into non glass form factors like a safety helmet. So you would just be
 wearing the helmet the arm would slide in front of you and then you'd have
 the display and also that kind of stable fitting thing made the display feel a
 little bit more comfortable. But there is just a learning curve when you first
 put them on. I mean you're not supposed to look directly at the display the
 whole time you're wearing them. You're supposed to focus on what you're doing
 in the real world and then when you need it glance up to the display so you can
 refer to it. And this way it's not too dissimilar from some very early
 iterations of AR glasses that we've seen like Google Glass. And it's different
 from HoloLens because HoloLens really just kind of covers your whole face and
 even though it's AR or mixed reality makes you feel enveloped in the world
 around you this doesn't really have that effect. So to call these AR glasses
 feels like a little bit of a misnomer and the pair I saw wasn't totally
 production ready. But like I said these are still new and Toshiba plans to run
 tests with its early customers to improve the glasses. And who knows maybe
 in the meantime more people will actually grow to love computers on
 their faces.
 I'm seeing... I'm not seeing you. How's that happening?
 You're not supposed to see me. I'm only supposed to see what you're seeing so
 you can concentrate on your job.
 Okay so let's do that over again.