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Microdisplays: Coming Soon to an Eye Near You?

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Texting, global positioning and streaming video on your portable device’s tiny screen could soon seem very old school compared with having that information projected directly onto your eye.

Melinda Rose, Web Editor, photonics.com

Imagine strolling past a restaurant and having its menu hover translucently in your field of vision, or getting a call from friends and having a GPS-like map appear in front of you as a guide to their exact location. These types of “augmented reality” scenarios could be closer than you might think, because the basic technology is already being developed for handheld devices, and specialized optics needed to guide the images to your eye is in the works right now at Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash. Figure 1. Microvision is working to incorporate its PicoP display engine into eyewear that...Read full article

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