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After the "Corporation good" began to actively "pedal" this theme, the popularity of decisions has increased dramatically.

In particular, the last Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas on to note a number of vendors.

I want to talk about LUMUS - Israeli company, has long worked with the local Air Force. Business profile - visual and optical technologies.

DK-40 claimed they were long ago, at CES2012 told of a working prototype. And then, finally, presented in March and promised to release for sale LUMUS DK40 Glass .



At the core is the technology solutions LUMUS LOE (Light-guide Optical Element ) - light-guiding optical element. His role lens made by special technology, which allows it to project onto a high resolution image, and then, thanks to the special faces, it is passed on to man at the right angle. Paired with LOE plays an important role Micro-Display POD - microprojector.



This is the fundamental difference from the Google Glass, in which the user is working with the display "hanging" in front of the eye, in LUMUS is man as a whole supports the display lens.

In fact, compared with Google Glass company offers a device with more augmented reality. Image resolution is 640 × 480, and the guys from LUMUS argue that work with their decision is comparable to watching 87-inch picture from 3 meters.



As it is the custom in the industry, glasses equipped with 5-megapixel CMOS-sensor, inertial sensors (devyatiosny Razor 9DOF), Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth BLE. According to the manufacturer, used lithium-polymer battery gadget will provide about 4 hours of continuous operation.

In an electronic basis points appears compact processor module Varisayt DART-4460 , having dual polutoragigagertsovy TI OMAP4460 Cortex-A9, with built-in 2D / 3D graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX540. Its size, about 1, 5 × 5 cm is ideal for such a compact form factor, like glasses.



As an embedded OS uses Android, but for the battery life, they are not intended. Will be controlled by the application from your smartphone or tablet.

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LUMUS has no plans to withdraw this product to the retail market. The company is working with the military and industrial customers and wants to promote more widely into the world of their LOE-technology. DK i>, in the name of the model, stands for Development Kit, but in general they call this device Wearable Display Development Kit i>
The company hopes to help third-party vendors to adopt the technology.

LUMUS said it will start shipping DK-40 late in the first quarter of this year (unfortunately I could not find at what price). It focuses on OEM-manufacturers and the first time a decision will be spread by closed subscription.

In comparison with previous decisions, such as DK-32, which have been though a bit more technologically advanced (binocular 3D image in 720p), LUMUS DK-40 - is more focused on the mass of the client. Estimated to Juniper Research, by 2018 the ninth year the annual supply of "smart" points reached 10 million pieces worldwide and LUMUS hopes to become one of the leading component suppliers in this sector.

More ideas, more technology, more competition: in the end we win - users and developers.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/212291/