Probably the most sleek pair I’ve seen thus far.

Hopefully there’s a video coming soon???

The screen resolution is 480*1280 true RGB pixels. That means each pixel is made up of three sub-pixels (red green and blue). No funky sales-trick, and I’m by the way not selling anything either.

What I want is that AR glasses will now finally take off. I want as many as possible in the hacker community to first copy what I’ve done, then to improve on the concept.

I’m furious! Counting Jacob Griffith-style the resolution is fricken 480*1280*3!

//Staffan

If I were interested in buying a pair of those bad boys would i be possible? and if so how much would it set me back? Because those are gorgeous!!! I would like to help but unfortunately I dont know a thing about that technology; any suggestions on a good learning point?

You should seriously consider making some income from this when you get the system and design perfected for “the consumer market”. (don’t want sued because someone actually walked in to a wall and somehow managed to cut their eye on a blunt prism… how do they manage it?)
Even if it is just selling it on some sellers website as you do them, still better than nothing.

A lot of people would love to get their hands on a decent HMD. I sure would.
Last one i had was when i was 9-ish and that was some basic reflective 2x 8-grid LED counter thing for a laser tag game. Man, i miss those glasses.

Now for a wireless link to your phone that can carry two way data and audio, and we’ve got the future.

How I wish I could remember all things I learned in school, or at least kept the books. I’m one jealous man of your knowledge.. Very cool stuff..

The reason high-res inexpensive 3D glasses are not widely available is mostly because of aggressive patent nonsense, followed by the need for pretty elaborate tweeks needed to ensure that:

a) the images are mapped correctly over a variety of viewer’s ocular conditions It’s a long story, but it boils down to being a non-trivial exercise in mapping the eye’s photorecepters and changing the display in real time to account for eye movement. All doable, but then you start running into patent walls.

b) No damaged is accrued by the eye – liability is ridiculous, which means our only hope is lotsa no-name asian knockoffs who can vanish at the first lawsuit

c) we need pixel by pixel brightness control, color control and muxing tricks alone won’t pull this off. Electronics isn’t at the point where such things can be done in minature and with negligable power consumption. It’ll happen, but who knows when.

In the meantime – good work! Good luck.

I”m surprised nobody’s really tried much of a wireless solution with this. Having a cable running from your glasses just looks dumb to me.

Awesome build! Do want!

(no, seriously, how much?)

As for wireless, Bluetooth 2.0 doesn’t have the bandwidth to deliver 640x480x3 video. I have Bluetooth audio headphones, which most audiophiles won’t touch due to quality degradation, and those already tax the standard to the limit.(I can’t use my mouse and headphones at the same time on the same Bluetooth unit) Your framerate would be measured in “seconds per frame.”

Having a processing system mounted behind the head on a headband might work, but I don’t think there’s any realistic escape from a wire running to your glasses within the next 5 or 10 years. Not that I mind any.

@Volfram
True 2.0 doesn’t but 4.0 will, although I still dont like the thought bluetooth video; maybe when revision 5.0 or 4.1 comes out along with wireless power/better batterys to allow at least 5 hours of use.