Raven Prism Smart Glasses Announced with Unique Hot-swappable Battery
Raven Resonance is showing off its upcoming smart glasses, Raven Prism, which aim to stay with users all day long thanks to a unique hot-swappable battery system. The San Francisco-based startup is publicly demoing.
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Raven Resonance is showing off its upcoming smart glasses, Raven Prism, which aim to stay with users all day long thanks to a unique hot-swappable battery system.
The San Francisco-based startup is publicly demoing Raven Prism for the first time today at Augmented World Expo (AWE) starting today, which is taking place June 16th – 18th in Long Beach, California.
Planned to launch later this year, Raven Prism—or what the company calls an “ambient computer”—offers more than just a handy hot-swappable battery system, which the company says lets users replace without interrupting apps or requiring shutdowns and reboots.
The glasses are also slated to pack in a feature set rarely seen in smart glasses today. Running RavenOS, the company’s 64-bit Linux-based operating system, Raven Prism features a full-color LCoS display delivered through a single waveguide in the right eye, integrated eye tracking for hands-free interaction, and an onboard camera with visible capture light that also includes a physical privacy cover.
And privacy is a major focus for the company.
“Privacy is a foundational design principle of Raven Prism,” the company says. “Eye control data is processed locally on the device, no user data is transmitted off-device without explicit user consent and core AI capabilities are designed to run locally whenever possible. Unlike many connected wearables that rely heavily on cloud infrastructure, Raven Prism was designed to perform as much computation as possible locally, keeping user data under the user’s control and reducing dependence on remote infrastructure. Raven Resonance believes privacy should be enforced through hardware and software architecture rather than policies.”
Unlike many smart glasses that rely on a tethered smartphone, Raven Prism is a standalone device powered by an onboard quad-core 64-bit ARM processor and will be available in multiple RAM configurations. The device natively supports Linux ARM64 applications and SSH access, positioning it as a more open and dev-friendly platform than most consumer smart glasses.
It’s also set to ship with more than 25 applications, also providing low-level access to the OS, creating a flexible platform, which the company says is being targeted at creative professionals, makers, developers and enterprise users.