Photonics Technology Will Contribute to Better Augmented Reality
The technology for visualizing information in Augmented Reality view is already available if users are able to hold up a tablet or use a stationary AR projection system. But most use cases could benefit from having high performance, light weight and low cost smart glasses. Reaching the customer requirements is a challenge with today’s technologies.
Photonics technology and LED arrays are playing a key role in the next generation of Augmented Reality using smartglasses, according to this post on the Optics.org blog. The post describes five projects and technologies to illustrate the kinds of components needed, the state of the art for those components and how are they being used in military, medical and manufacturing industries.
Experts note that the main challenges are to provide glasses with high transparency, a large field of view and good visual comfort.