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Ozan Cakmakci has designed and assembled a prototype wearable display concealed in eyeglasses.

He writes:

My first design was assembled during the weekend of November 17, 2006. All the optics and opto-mechanics are custom designed. The design was presented as a full paper at the Optical Society of America International Optical Design Conference, 2006, Vancouver, Canada. Also, a poster of it was presented at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) 2006 in Switzerland.

The current unit accepts standard VGA input and we are using the Kopin VGA 640×480 panel taken out of an ICUITI. It is common practice to use off-the-shelf microdisplays when developing head-worn displays. We focused on the optical system design.

We are aiming for see-through and stereo for the next prototype. We hope to finish that by March ‘07.

Cakmakci’s design is just one of the pitstops on the way to creating the most efficient head-mounted display.

via SLASHDOT

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