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Home > News > Lumus OE-31 Optical Engine Promises Wearable Heads-Up Displays

Lumus OE-31 Optical Engine Promises Wearable Heads-Up Displays

February 25, 2012 by Jon Avalon

Have you ever wanted to have a heads up display (HUD) built right into your glasses?

The OE-31

Lumus, who creates wearable displays, has revealed their newest technology. The “OE-31” is a compact Heads Up Display that has an small optical engine that can be used in various frames such as goggles, motorcycle helmets, prescription or regular sun glasses. It will also be available in both binocular and monocular configurations. If that sounds familiar, Google is also working on their own heads up display glasses.

Specs

The OE-31 sensor only weighs .35 ounces and is no more than the size of a quarter. The design of the sensor allows for a 19-degree field of view and a full color 640 x 360 picture display. While the resolution on paper will look small, in reality the viewing experience will be closest to being in front of a 40 inch screen from a few feet away.

Full specs
Display format: nHD 640 x 360 pixels
Field of View: 19°
Virtual screen size: Equivalent of 40″ screen at 10 ft away; 400″ at 100 ft away
Eye motion box: 10 x 8 mm
Display color: Full color
Transparency: >78%
Brightness: >1,000 FtL
Contrast ratio: >250:1
Eye relief: 18 mm
Weight: 10g
LOE thickness: 1.6 mm

No word yet on when this will come to market, but it will be interesting to see what kind of products it will be incorporated into.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Augmented Reality, displays, glasses

About Jon Avalon

Jon is an avid computer and gadget specialist. Currently is a student at Tarrant County College while doing IT work for Letstalk.com. He also is a primary moderator and writer for djforums.com, and now GeekBeat.TV. Other than computers and gadgets, he has a strong passion for Audio & Video production. Put him in an editing bay or behind a camera and he will never leave.

Follow him on Twitter @jonavalon.

Comments

  1. Lorelock says

    February 27, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Mass Effect here we come !

  2. nic says

    February 25, 2012 at 10:29 am

    “The sensor only weighs”… Sensor? What sensor? It’s a display, a projector, there are no sensors there. Unless there is some cool automatic brightness adjustment or something, but I doubt it you were talking about that.

    • nic says

      February 25, 2012 at 10:32 am

      Of course, there are HUDs out there with integrated cameras too, but that also is not the case with this see-through display.

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