Vuzix Corporation (VUZI)

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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/06/vuzix-smart-glasses.html


"Augmented reality glasses look a step ahead of Google
17:56 13 June 2012
Augmented reality
Google
Jacob Aron, technology reporter


(Image: Jacob Aron)

I'm sitting in a bar watching a video of a baseball player. That's unusual enough in the UK, where the sport has minimal following, but I'm not watching on a wall-mounted flatscreen or even my smartphone. The slugger's swing plays out on a piece of glass just 2 millimetres thick, part of a prototype augmented reality (AR) glasses system created by display technology firm Vuzix.

"We basically make monitors - really hard-to-build monitors," says Vuzix's Clark Dever. The prototype is currently just a single lens jury-rigged to a tiny portable projector, but the results are already impressive. The video image takes up around a quarter of the entire lens and appears to hover around 10 centimetres in front of your face, so it is easy to see your surroundings at the same time. The prototype image is quite bright, though, making the real world look dark in comparison.

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