Vuzix Corporation VUZI today announced a major optical breakthrough that will dramatically improve glasses-based wearable technology.
The new Waveguide optics engine jointly developed with Nokia NOK, for the first time enables smart eyewear technology capable of fitting into standard glasses frames and is being first introduced with the release of the Vuzix M2000AR HMD. Waveguide optics are a revolutionary new way of moving light within smart glasses and are a fraction of the size and weight of conventional prism-based optics used in competing wearable smart devices. Waveguide optics also deliver a much wider field of view for the user.
As opposed to requiring large optics to focus and create the required virtual image, Waveguide optics use a 1.4mm thin "window" (operating similar to a fiber optic) with a tiny input pupil that is expanded using a hologram in front of the eye. Light is not bent through bulk material as in conventional
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