The latest prototype of Sony’s SmartEyeglasses, a head-mounted display used with a smartphone, is on show at this week’s IFA electronics show in Berlin.

The device has clear lenses and a thick plastic frame, built that way to hide the electronics, and can project green-colored text across a wide portion of the lens resulting in a very different experience than that of Google Glass.

Whereas the Google product puts a color display in a corner of the wearer’s field of vision, the Sony glasses project over a great portion of the lens but the green text and basic graphics shown by the glasses are reminiscent of a computer monitor from the 1980s, albeit at a higher resolution.

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