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Designer Glasses With Microdisplay Unveiled
An anonymous reader writes to tell us about an Israeli company, Lumus-Optical, and their nicely designed eyeglasses featuring twin microdisplays and mini projectors. They will be demoed at CES in January. From the article: "The firm's latest prototype boasts dual 640 x 480 resolution displays as well as two wee projectors on each arm; the Lumus glasses can accept video inputs via an undisclosed connection, and projects an image akin to a '60-inch screen from 10 feet away.' Its Light-guide Optical Element technology allows the imagery to be reflected back on to the lenses so users can view them, all while being transparent enough to allow you to focus on the humans, trees, road block, or board room presentation ahead of you."
...they do something!
A way to watch porn 'in public' without being hassled by 'the man'. Better yet, can you imagine driving at 75 mph while your favorite 'artist' performs her special talent. Seriously, we'll look back to the 'good old days' when people were just distracted by their cell phones, and not email, porn, and shopping. Hopefully cars will drive themselves before 'Joe SUV' gets his hands on 'this'.
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
Nothing to see here,
(Hasn't this already been done?)
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Yet another way for people to get into car accidents, fall down stairs, and walk into poles!
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displays as well as a wee projector
is that like the sensor bar?
allow you to focus on the humans, trees, road block
for those of you driving in motor vehicles equipped with media players and the proper output connections. and if so - why not a hud built into the wind shield?
i could see this as a cool thing but the whole lightness and cool factor drops a bunch when there's a cable running down your back and your tethered to whatever is feeding the projector.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Lets get some higher resolution in these things and start doing some augmented reality! I can finally store a face next to a name, recall it in a subtle form through my glasses, and never have an awkward moment at a cocktail party every again!
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These glasses look a lot better than the old, bulky VR glasses that first emerged a long time ago but the wearer still looks like a huge dork. (No offense to anyone who would consider owning these.)
I can't wait until OLED technology (or something similiar) progresses to the point to where the display can be imprinted on the lens. We're probably still a few years off from that point but, until then, I don't think this type of techonology will ever become mainstream.
I can see severe beatings in store for users of these glasses on plane trips.
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How freakin' dorky do those "designer" glasses look? What's so hard here, integrate your displays into a normal looking pair of sunglasses and make them no more bulky while doing so. Yes, that means you are going to have to do something revolutionary and hide that revolutionary technology in something that looks normal. Cause that's what people want when they are out in public; to look like everyone else; and that's where this product will be used.
How we know is more important than what we know.
when I can go buy a 60" widescreen plasma tv and sit 2 feet away from it?
It's a really nice design, but how does it function? Their website (www.lumus-optical.com) doesn't specify beyond potential application. Does it allow you to clip onto existing glasses, or do you have to use their display as well? It has a clean display in comparison to the My Vu specs (www.myvu.com), but there doesn't seem to be a lot more to it. Does it have built in audio, does it have a bulky adapter/controller? I for one would like to see more information on the website.
Assuming these questions are answered to my satisfaction, I'd be happy to look into it in conjunction with a decent video playing PDA/cell phone. Integrate the bluetooth keyboard, and you have a real mobile computer.
from the department of when-will-they-have-the-goggles-that-every-man-dre ams-of?
Undisclosed? What, does the input jack require lube or something?
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where can you buy lcd goggles? newegg doesn't have them...
another blog with a bit of blurb leading to the original story here
and here is the company in question
i swear "blog" is fast becoming a pseudonym for "spam" except its on a webpage rather than my inbox but both are garnished with adverts, banners, affiliate clicks and use ever increasing desperate tactics to attract viewers other than actually create an original article that people want to read or do some investigation themselves (but that would mean working for a living),
i dont think traditional (professional) media has anything to fear from the blogosphere other than being ripped off for their content
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link to home page: http://www.lumusvision.com/ They have a technology section displaying an overview of the refraction elements used to display the image. They also seem to have developed (and brought to market) an earlier model of these glasses. I admit they do look shiny, but if i bought VR goggles i'd primarily use them at home. It's a cool toy, but would lug around something like that for everyday use?
microdisplays have been available at 320x240 resolutions for a long time now. i'm just waiting for a res boost. however, given the long sordid history of microdisplays, i suggest you not hold your breath for product releases. place little faith in a press release.
...they do something!
Can I get a date by wearing the goggles? Or can I get a girl to date me by her wearing them? Or can I date the girl in the picture? How do they work exactly??
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well its only a matter of time before its integrated into the frame of the glasses, and it works better than the ones that were supposed to fire directly onto your retinas. it would be awesome if there were better mini pc motherboards, like fitting into a hard drive enclosure with a decent processor makes me kinda look forward to the amd cpu gpu integrated chip doozer. that would be awesome.
"This looks like VGA resolution displayed on a screen so big you can see the individual pixels!"
What are the implications of using something like this on a regular basis? It's pretty well documented that people experience eye strain from staying focused at a fixed focal depth for too long (ie. when looking at a monitor). I've had my own vision deteriorate pretty significantly since I have started using computers despite genetics to the opposite (ie. my mom and dad both have great vision and they are in their late 50s). I shudder to think about the implications of remaining focused at a depth of less than inch from the eye for extended periods of time.
I can't wait to see people hanging out at the grocery store or at the local mall, just walking around with those hideously ugly glasses, completely oblivious to their surroundings and watching some tv show. I can see how it can be useful in some situations, but to the folks that I'm sure I'll see walking about in crowded shopping areas, I ask what the point of all that is, other than to simply show off?
Can this be used to enhance movies watched on the Video iPod?
Hey, maybe they can get this pixel to be 5 feet away and the next one over to be 61 inches away. Extend that to a "depth range" of a few feet and "Help me Obi-Wan" can't be far off.
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However I doubt you'd want a Lexan windshield on a passenger car, because it would scratch too easily. Particularly since most people don't really wash their windshields, and just sort of let the wipers grind the stuff around while the nozzles squirt some blue water on it.
A cracked windshield is probably preferable to one that's translucent from being sandblasted with road grit. I suspect, though I don't know for sure, that the ones on race cars probably have a very short lifespan.
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Of course, that input requires a special implantation surgery... From Hot Shots:
"It's called a multipupiloptomy, but in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets they have to go in through the rectum... Ain't no man gonna take that route with me!"
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It's over nine THOUSand!!!!
What 9000?!
as well as two wee projectors on each arm
:^D
Wii projectors or wee projectors? Wii projectors, body movements, and arm mounted Wii projectors and things could get dangerous. We just need portable power for the Wii and projectors.
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great, now we just have to wait until the porn industry adopts it and then wait another 2 to 5 years until we get some useful content.
Face recognition is okay, but to really do augmented reality well you need to first figure out the geometry of the whole scene. Hardware is just getting fast enough to do that in real time, but portable hardware that can do it is still a few years away. For example, OpenVIDIA is fast enough to track 1000 features in real time, but requires a high-end SLI setup to do it (at least, if I remember the benchmark correctly -- I can't find it again).
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I was going to say that, at least with this type of display, you won't get any idiots chucking their Wii controllers at their 60" plasmas... But then I thought that, if you're stupid enough to do that, you'll be stupid enough to swing the nun chuck around and smack the crap out of your face and the glasses.
Yeah, that'd look like shit, even at ten feet.
...at, say, two feet.
How about we shoot for effectively 17" XGA
Phase-array optics, implemented in a coating several nanometers deep on the inside surface of the lenses, will in theory be able to display virtual images at a comfortable viewing distance. See more here
Since the display is a pair of projectors, each aimed into one eye, why aren't they boasting a stereo display, like a 3D movie?
What I really want to see is tiny cameras on the fronts of the projectors, registering the 3D scene so the projected display can be mapped closely onto it.
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Wasn't this the story about some courier girl that found a pair of sunglasses, and it if you turn them on, they give information about your surroundings? Peoples names, faces, backgrounds. Prices of objects your looking at, etc.
I think to be useful in that sense the resolution would need to be higher, and you would need some kind of object for pattern/face recognition.
Would be neat if this survives.
when i was in th 4th grade (1994) my teacher worn one of these and it spat out a freaking lazor light show..
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Although the implications of this are somewhat grandiose in scale, the question that seems to be refused to be answered by any of the articles or press releases is whether or not this technology will work with corrective lenses. Even now, due to the fact that i wear glasses (and refuse to purchase contacts, which is another issue altogether) i cannot really find sunglasses without paying an exhorbinant rate - my options are 1) buy sunglas clips, which dont work very well, and rarely fit, 2) spend twice as much as i should and purchase a set of sunglasses and non-tinted glasses, or 3) buy a set of glasses with transition lenses, or 4) go without and hope that the migraines that manifest themselves from increadible ammounts of light will be easily and efficiently staved off. Granted, these glasses, if they ever are produced, are likely to be expensive, but will these new glasses afford me new choises, or will i be stuck with the aforementioned quandries, only intensified by the fact that now there is a new kind of optical technology that is making my corrective lenses more expensive, thus increasing the expense i already have to shill out at the optricians and for the various types of lenses i, even now, need but can't afford?
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Maybe they'll be replicated like the plague and the whole ship will become addicted!!! OH NO!!! http://www.g4tv.com/startrekthenextgeneration/epis odes/5156/The_Game.htmlThe Game episode.
Yeah, these were developed by lockheed martin for fighter pilots originally. Its a way of projecting targeting and specifications in a pilots field of vision as a heads up display. Could be used with soldiers, etc...
I am sure some jarhead just watched the terminator and tried to reverse engineer it. Science fiction always comes up with this stuff before the military.
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Everyone's complaining about the resolution, so can we just swap displays?
Looking at Lumus-Optical's web site, it's clear that all they've done is fold the optics and are using a segmented beamsplitter embedded in an optically clear substrate to display the image on your glasses. Nothing new, just a slight twist on the low-obscurement transparent HMD designs. If you wear glasses, I see absolutely nothing keeping you from just moving the mounting bracket over to your own frames.
For what it's worth, you can buy similar microdisplays and electronics directly from Kopin ( http://www.kopin.com/commercial-display-products/ ). This can also enlighten you to the "cost" of those XGA head mounted displays. They're still not cheap, but they're also traditional active-matrix LCDs. It would probably be simple for the company to upgrade resolution, but the price is going to skyrocket, too.
I'd be FAR more impressed if they were using an RGB 2d MEMS scanner from Microvision ( http://www.microvision.com/ ). I actually believe that that a similar technology but using a segmented prism instead was to be used in ultra-flat rear projection TV's as an alternative.
Also, as far as I'm aware, only 3D Visor ( http://www.3dvisor.com/ ) is currently using OLEDs in a commercial product, but their work is with standard enclosed nausea inducing stuff. There are rumors flying of a $1000 XGA product sometime in the near future, though.
The company's got a pdf file on their site with some higher resolution images at http://www.lumus-optical.com/Downloads/Tech/Produc tDescriptionPD20-060523.pdf
Hey, my employer's health plan allows me to purchase a pair of glasses free every couple of years. So would this include video-augmented glasses?
Insurance companies really don't want people to get hurt, since they have to pay for it. Invest in Healthcare instead.
On topic, the only thing I really want is industrial diamond glasses. No more soft plastic lenses or thick glass ones, just a few mm of diamond for any eye adjustment you could need. As an added bonus, you could use them to sharpen your knives.
Since when did the mainstream media ever have anything against substituting a watered down story to attract you to their tacky nest of flashing banners? I'm always suprised to find any kind of substance in an article, I just look at the headlines now and make up my own stories.
What if you already wear glasses? And can you get these at Specsavers?
It is more efficent.
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There are buses.
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To sum up all the posts in this thread on public transit: When public transit works, it's great. When it doesn't work, it isn't.
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mini-projector eyeglasses + nightshot spycam with filter = FINALLY REAL X-RAY SPECS THAT WORK!! Huzzah!
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This technology would make for awesome screens if they can scale it up to full resolution and make the glass larger.
of course, they're probably hitting some kind of physics barrier which prevents more pixels or large size glasses to be made. Otherwise, this would be very big screen news.
I doubt anyone's going to wear that attachment piece on their eye though, it just too big.
Unless it's for work or something.
Ben