Brother may spend a big chunk of its time on things like
printers and
sewing machines, but it's also quietly been working on some decidedly more futuristic products, and it may just be set to deliver on one of them. While it wasn't offering much in the way of specifics the
last time we heard about its retina display technology, Brother now seems to have a fully developed, fully functional prototype (pictured above), and it says it plans to commercialize the glasses sometime "next year." Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone. Ambitious, to be sure, but NEC is also saying it hopes to get it on the market in 2010.
Read - Register Hardware, "Brother creates direct retinal imaging specs"
Read - Far East Gizmos, "NEC develops Worlds first retina-display translation Eyeglasses"
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posted October 26th 2009 1:34PM
Yeahhhh, with this thing i will finally lose my virginity.
watching 10-centimeter porn wouldnt lose your virginity.
"10-centimeter wide image floating about floating about one meter in front of them"
I'll be the grammar Nazi here. "Floating about floating about?" Someone was tired.
Y HELO PYRAMID HILL
That's F-ing awesome. But, I'm still somehow hesitant to have things directly beamed into my retina. I'll let you early adopters try this out first... ;)
Things are beamed directly onto your retina every time you open your eyelids (unless it's pitch black).
HA !! i will no longer have to ask Vegeta what Goku's power level is....
8 thousand ?
;-)
That's actually really small... (10cm at 1m) I suppose it is because most of the rods and cones are concentrated near the center of our retinas, and everything else would be blurry or low-res.
That sounds about right. The center of the fovea has virtually no rods, only cones for a very small point of sharp acuity in the vision. It's also the reason it's nearly impossible to focus on something in the dark.
pair it with a bluetooth headphone and youre set.
To get hit by a car :P
+1 Monica
Would be very very useful during talks and presentations.
It is right out of a ST: TNG episode. Guest Starring Ashely Judd and no I do not know the stardate, I am not that good.
The Dominion ships also used them on ST:DS9
Stardate 45208.2
source: http://www.tv.com/star-trek-the-next-generation/the-game/episode/19092/summary.html
The real question is, will it burn a still image of Mario into my retina?
Forget about Mario, i want naked chicks burned into my retina!!!
What happened to microvision and microoptical?
Oh that's right, MV is moving to pico projectors, and microoptical either went out of business or moved to my*vu.
"a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them"
That's what she said.
Thats great everyone so often you'll see someone jumping over a "koopa" in the middle of the street.
I'm sure this is where technology will go, but i find it hard to emulate a 24" - 47" screen with 1920 x 1200 res without destroying ur vision retna.
I think it's a mind control device disguised as a retina display...
Just look at the dumb face the guy is doing, he's obviously being mind-controlled.
Well, if this is some sort of cult, at least there will be no trouble finding a sacrificial virgin.
Don't you think that being a virgin is already a too big sacrifice?
XD
For some reason all I want to do with this is run an NES emulator on it. Sweet.
ITS OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it really that hard to put those flexible OLEDs into a pair of wearable glasses? I'd be willing to wear a Jabra-esque battery around my ear for a IRL HUD.
Future, here I come.
It is hard if you want them to be in a somewhat decent resolution. 7 inch netbook screens are like 800x600 (if not less) and they are standard LCD.
The flexible screens we see demonstrated are still prototypes, chances are they have horrible resolutions, power usage and more importantly for such applications, extremely bad refresh rate (just look at eink/epaper) and no way to mass produce them. Also no idea on the life expectancy of them either.
You need to cram than into something like 2 inches and still be able to increase the display later while having a good refresh.
A much cooler solution would be to have the display worked into the glasses themselves using transparent transistors and such. That is further away though.
You know what this means? Porn at work!
That's what she said!
Isn't everything we see beamed directly onto our retinas?
Absolutely not.