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Spin-off company Dispelix Oy will commercialise a new display – developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland – which brings visual information directly into the user's field of vision, as a high-definition image on an eyeglass lens. This will enable smartglasses to replace even smartphones or tablets, while still allowing users to see the world around them. Also integrable with current smartglasses, this product should be available to consumers within a year.
[...] The forthcoming displays will have unlimited applications for consumer and professional use. The first applications will be found in the worlds of exercise, work and motor sports. Thanks to the new display, a sportsperson will no longer need to check his or her pulse-rate from a watch – pulse-rate, navigation and activity data will be directly displayed on sport glasses.
[...] The technology is based on lightguide optics, which enables the manufacture of displays on either glass or plastic in the form of light and thin elements with a thickness of just one millimetre. In addition to thinness, the benefits of the technology include a large, high-quality virtual image and excellent transparency. The display element can also be freely shaped.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:13AM
So the high-definition image is place on my glasses. How am I supposed to appreciate its amazingly precise resolution?
I'm fairly near-sighted, with a correction of -7, but even my eyes focus at about 14 cm, not 1 cm.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:33AM
Well, how do the other display glasses do it? I'd expect it to work the same way optically.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 14 2015, @05:43AM
There is also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by Username on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:03AM
I think it’s like a normal LCD, but with glass etched around each pixel to bend the light, like a tiny lens for each pixel. The trouble would be how to vary the depth of the etching to meet the corrective needs of the user. Then probably laminate it between polycarbonate sheets and grind it like a normal lens for overall corrective sight. Then put flex pcb curved around the inside of the bottom frame with ICs cased in the bridge, and wires for power in the top with the batteries in the shape of temples connected to the frame with a non conductive screw with each side of the clamp a different polarity.