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https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/glasses-stop-myopia-ar...
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/107/11/1709.full.pd...
Innolux booth at Display Week: https://youtu.be/Tapm05Zwokc?t=268
A Chinese OEM also at Display Week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZBIC4VydI
Here's one built into an ASUS laptop: https://www.asus.com/content/asus-spatial-vision-technology/
There was a push towards micro liquid crystal panels with laser illumination to create holographic images with depth. There are several startups still pursuing that, but the image quality isn't very good at the moment.
The latest advancement has been in the optics with moving to pancake lenses to reduce the length of the optical path from the display to the eye. The Meta Quest 3 has a smaller form factor than previous generations because of this.
A TI DLP DMD can modulate at those high speeds, and there's readily available driving circuitry for it. However, it's a small reflective based display designed for projectors, and you would then need a light source to reflect off of it.
MicroLEDs would let you increase your pixel pitch with fast modulation frequency, but the display area is still small at the moment because of low yields. You also need a custom chip to drive the microleds at the required high framerate.
"The IVAS adds night-vision and thermal imaging sensors to the usual HoloLens heads-up display, and is ruggedised for military use."
https://www.army-technology.com/news/us-army-to-work-with-mi...
See the PR announcement that they're shipping. Go to their web site. Click "Where to buy". Go to the first link to "Insight US". Place an order. Get a call from a representative to confirm the order. Ask the representative to clarify that Magic Leap 2 is in stock and shipping. They responded "yes."
Wait a few days. Check on the status of my order: "Stock: 0", and the estimated ship date is just an automated date that increases by 3 whenever current date equals estimated ship date. Call up Insight US to ask is it in stock or not. They admit it's not in stock and won't be available until maybe December/January.
Call up Magic Leap (they surprisingly have a phone line to call) and ask their sales representative if anyone has stock. They respond they don't know and to try the second supplier. Ask them what the supplier's phone number is to confirm stock. They say they don't know and that supplier only communicates through e-mail. Supplier responds via e-mail, "of course we have stock! Place an order to get an estimated ship date." I'm doubtful.
So there you have it. Magic Leap 2 shipping now, maybe?
The theory is that children are naturally far sighted which creates blurrier/lower contrast central vision and sharper/higher contrast peripheral vision. The brain interprets the higher contrast peripheral vision as a sign the eye is too short and far sighted, and the eye begins to grow. As the eye grows to the appropriate length, central vision experiences higher contrast and peripheral vision experiences lower contrast, and the eye stops growing.
If you degrade the peripheral vision's ability to experience higher contrast at all with these glasses, then the brain will never see a need to grow the eye.
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1258672/v1/48b147...
MEMS mirrors have built-in angle sensors, and when these report that there's irregular or no detected movement in one or both directions, the lasers are turned off.
The lasers in a MEMS mirror near-eye display operate in the microwatt range. Low power laser pointers operate in the milliwatt range, and the safety mechanism for those is that your eyelid is expected to shut to block off the laser in less than a second. Therefore, you have more time to shut your eyelids or remove your eye from the MEMS mirror display if there's a failure and the lasers fail to shut off.
My man, welcome to the club! Reminds me of the time I was punished for being just 30 mins shy of meeting my mandatory additional study hours because my friends dragged me out to go see Star Wars Ep 2. Nuclear Power School had a rule where if you were scanned in (everyone had to scan in and out of the building with a badge) for study hall less than 30 mins, all of the time was invalidated. I clocked out at 29 mins. It was not worth it!
My current project is AR glasses. An FPGA is decoding a displayport signal and driving the display.