TCL wants to bring the TV to your glasses

If you don’t have room for a big screen TV in your home, TCL gives you the option to put the TV directly on your face.

At CES 2022, TCL announced the next version of its TV glasses. The NXTWear Air has a pair of 1080p displays in 16:9 ratio commonly seen in televisions and displays, and they sit close enough to the eyes that using them is about the same as watching a 140-inch screen from a couch. Their basic 60Hz refresh rate won’t satisfy anyone used to playing games at 90 frames per second or greater, though the Air is compatible with over 100 smartphones and devices. At just over 2.6 ounces, the Air weighs half that of most phones and far less than the 4.6 ounces of the first version.

TCL will announce pricing and availability closer to Mobile World Congress in February, but company officials said the glasses are coming to the US at some point. The original NXTWear had select releases in Japan, Korea and Australia and were often sold alongside content subscriptions — in one country, for example, they were bundled with premium sports channel services.