Forth Dimension Displays showcases Replicating Reality™ at GDC 2012

TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Forth Dimension Displays (FDD), a leading provider of high-resolution microdisplays and a subsidiary of Kopin Corporation KOPN, will exhibit at this year's Game Developer's Conference (GDC) to be held from March 7 to 9 at San Francisco's Moscone Center (SDI booth #1132). Replicating Reality^™, FDD's concept to provide the ultimate visual experience by making the user feel fully immersed in a virtual world or hyper-reality, will now be demonstrated using First Person Shooter (FPS) games. First shown in a motor racing simulation scenario at E3 in 2011, the Replicating Reality concept could lead the way to revolutionizing the consumer entertainment industry.

FDD's CEO, Greg Truman said, “Our vision is to deliver a display where the user will be unable to tell the difference from reality. The wide field of view, very high resolution microdisplays and head tracking all contribute to a feeling of total immersion in the virtual world. We are excited to demonstrate our new immersive First Person Shooter demo for the first time to the key movers and shakers of the games industry.”

GDC is the world's largest and longest running professionals-only game industry event. Attracting over 19,000 attendees, it is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audit professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry.

About Forth Dimension Displays

Forth Dimension Displays (FDD) is the world's leading supplier of high resolution microdisplays for Near-To-Eye (NTE) applications and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kopin Corporation. For over eight years, FDD's microdisplays have been used in high-performance training and virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMDs), leading electronic viewfinders for cinematography, and critical applications in the industrial and medical markets. For more information on Replicating Reality, please contact at info@replicatingreality.com or visit our website www.replicatingreality.com.

About Kopin

Kopin Corporation's voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i® mobile computing headsets, lightweight, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 30 million displays for a range of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The Company's unique HBTs, which help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit Kopin's website at www.kopin.com.

Kopin, Replicating Reality, Golden-i and The NanoSemiconductor Company are trademarks of Kopin Corporation.

Safe Harbor Statements

Statements in this news release may be considered “forward-looking” statements under the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include statements relating to: the potential Replicating Reality concept could lead the way to revolutionizing the consumer entertainment industry; and other statement that may project or imply future results, events, performance or achievements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the potential that FDD may not launch the Replicating Reality concept as a product; no market may develop for products based on the Replicating Reality concept; and other risk factors and cautionary statements listed in the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 12 months ended December 25, 2010, and the Company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. The Company undertakes no responsibility to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this report.

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