Wonder if two (with larger image area) would allow 3-D projection too..

Interesting heads-up display with at last a decent image resolution ... would be great if it could be linked to an iphone with augmented reality software.

The resolution has to be good (tick), it needs to allow normal vision to work (i.e. not just the dark headsets found in the existing lower res devices) and not be vomit inducing!

I'd have one if the price is pitched right, has iphone connectivity ... and assuming the lasers won't blind !!

...I wonder if Brother has given any thought to the possibility of retinal burn-in?

This kind of technology is the future of the video game. Full immersion, 3D.

Just right for making a spectacle of yourself.

anyone remember that series? ISTR it was based on a similar invention...

Great! Another way for people to be not paying attention to the road when they drive.

Way to go, Brother.

So it's all kiddy porn then?

"I'm no biologist but doesn't vision normally work by light reaching retinas? As far as I can tell the only difference is light isn't leaked to the sides, like a bad viewing angle from cheap LCD."

Yes, but the difference is the only way to view an LCD in complete privacy is to either A) Do it completely alone, or B) stick your face a few feet from the screen and throw a blanket/towel/coat over yourself and it! This device, by beaming light directly into the retina, prevents the privacy busting scattering of light in multiple directions like an LCD or CRT or pretty much anything else thats not intended to be viewed by just one person.

Thats how I see it anyway!

Man, that episode of Star Trek was actually quite worrisome.

800 x 600 resolution, 10cm² object at a distance of 1m

=>

about 2.74 cm x 3.65 cm

I guess there's no loss of resolution through myopia, but that's still a bit small and far away to see properly, in my opinion.

Anyone else notice how his field of vision to his left will be nigh on destroyed by the massive lump of plastic on his specs...?

So not only will you be sidetracked by the grot your watching, you also wont spot the #10 bus come round the corner at you...

The obvious business application is meetings. This would allow meeting delegates to continue with important work (AKA browse the internet, check mail, online chat, ...) when stuck in a meeting. With some practise, it should be possible to feign interest in what the speaker has to say whilst actually concentrating on more interesting stuff. Oh wait - I have to go a some boring meeting..

. . . so Brother have finally made a commercial version of technology the US military were playing with around 15 years ago (though they were looking at it for VR purposes and drawing the image on the retina with a laser).

Finally, someone's got one of these working. Took them bloody long enough - it's not like it's a new concept.

@ Stevie and Patrick: Yeah, watching a DVD whilst driving would be bad. But we're talking Augmented Reality here, so how's about a HUD incorporating millimetre-wave and IR overlays so you can see perfectly in the dark? Plus automatic dimming of other cars' headlights. Plus a big red outline on the car/tree/pedestrian it looks like you're about to impact with unless you brake NOW. And outlines around speed cameras. And a dotted line showing the junction you need to be turning off at. Who wouldn't buy that?

(Obligatory reference to Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and Charles Stross's "Halting State" - if you ain't read them, get them bought now.)

I would have bought into this years ago.

I will not spend good money for cheap.

I want my HD, map it to my brain though (not being used for much else).

*Right eye went south a bit ago; damn staring into the Sun.

Added, EM; what is it with the low res bullshit?

A product launch, and it is the same as every other product launch out there; give us some hope.

Some of us would really like to be offered hope (resolution; dumbf**ks, resolution.)