Smartglass gets smarter

Finland’s Dispelix has developed a light and unobtrusive method to transmit high-definition images into a user’s field of vision – negating the need for bulky head-mounted prisms or projectors

AUGMENTED REALITY REVENUE SHARE

(2020 forecast)

Market worth

$120 billion

Hardware sector

$40bn

Optics share

$1.5bn

Wearer

Transparent:

can see through

image

DISPELIX PRINCIPLE

(available 2016)

1

2

Diffractive light in-coupling

Diffractive light out-coupling

Compressed image

Image diffracted

grating:

received. Hidden inside frame

of eyewear in final

version

through lens and expanded

into viewable form

Virtual

image

Visible

only to

wearer,

equivalent

to 60-inch

HD TV viewed

from 3m away

Source

image from

projector

Video or

computer

display

High refractive

Lens:

index material

Source: Dispelix Oy. Picture: Juha Sarkkinen (VTT Research)

Smartglass gets

smarter

Finland’s Dispelix has developed a light and unobtrusive method to transmit high-definition images into a user’s field of vision – negating the need for bulky head-mounted prisms or projectors

Wearer

Transparent:

can see through

image

DISPELIX PRINCIPLE

(available 2016)

1

Diffractive light in-coupling grating:

Compressed image received. Hidden inside

frame of eyewear in final version

2

Diffractive light out-coupling

Image diffracted

grating:

through lens and expanded

into viewable form

High refractive

Lens:

index material

Virtual image

Visible only to wearer,

equivalent to 60-inch HD

TV viewed from 3m away

Source image from

Video or

projector:

computer display

AUGMENTED REALITY REVENUE SHARE

(2020 forecast)

Hardware sector

$40bn

Optics share

$1.5bn

Market worth

$120 billion

Source: Dispelix Oy

Picture: Juha Sarkkinen (VTT Research)

Smartglass

gets smarter

Finland’s Dispelix has developed a light and unobtrusive method to transmit high-definition images into a user’s field of vision – negating the need for bulky head- mounted prisms or projectors

Wearer can see

Transparent:

see through image

DISPELIX PRINCIPLE

(available 2016)

1

Diffractive light in-coupling

Compressed image

grating:

received. Hidden inside frame

of eyewear in final version

2

Diffractive light

out-coupling grating

Image diffracted

through lens and

expanded into

viewable form

High

Lens:

refractive index

material

Source image from

Video or

projector:

computer display

Virtual image

Visible only to wearer,

equivalent to 60-inch HD

TV viewed from 3m away

AUGMENTED REALITY

REVENUE SHARE

(2020 forecast)

Hardware

sector

$40bn

Optics

share

$1.5bn

Market worth

$120 billion

Source: Dispelix Oy

Picture: Juha Sarkkinen (VTT Research)