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Vuzix is apparently making good progress on their forthcoming 'SMART Glasses' which are augmented reality glasses that use optical engines and waveguides enabling a very compact and lightweight AR display. What they are showing looks very close to standard sunglasses. The company is saying that they could have these on the marker in 6 months while the industrial monocular version should be shipping at the end of this month! Lot's more detail here:

http://www.roadtovr.com/2012/10/14/vuzi ... asses-1566

This looks pretty cool. Although personally would like to see more wide FOV types for VR, I think AR has probably greater potential for commercial success. I hope Vuzix can pull off what they want, and make a unit that is as small as the non-working prototype they have been showing.

They actually seem really cool. If they can increase the FOV, while keeping the cost to a minimum, I can see them really becoming the next must-have for portable interface.

What would be great is if Google licensed this tech for their Google Glass project, seems like a good fit.

cybereality wrote:What would be great is if Google licensed this tech for their Google Glass project, seems like a good fit.

I'm pretty sure Glass is using the same optical engine + waveguide approach, their's just looks quite a bit different.