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New Display Keeps an Eye On the Viewer

Posted by Soulskill on from the apparently-it-watches-the-watchers dept.

Al writes "Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) have developed an OLED display that doubles as a camera. The idea is to use it in lightweight heads-up displays that track users' eye movements, affording some form of gaze-control. The researchers will demonstrate a prototype at the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio this week. The current version has a simple monochromatic display: it is 1.25 centimeters on each side, with a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels. The team at Fraunhofer IPMS has also partnered with Novaled, an OLED company that manufactures high-quality white diodes, and plans to make color prototypes using the technology."

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  1. Typo in summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    usersl

    The "l" is on the wrong side.

    -- BOFH

  2. Prototype, eh? by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The camera in the researchers' current prototype is still fairly rudimentary. It has a resolution of only 12 pixels, which means that it can't yet track a user's eye movements.

    In other news, I have made a prototype flying car in my garage. It doesn't fly yet, but I have put some stylish looking fins on it.