My latest article for TheFeature is about University of Washington University Thomas Furness's Virtual Retinal Display, a system that paints a video image onto your eyeball with a laser beam.
"The small screens and narrow fields of view of mobile devices don't work well with the human vision system," Furness says. "When we first started talking about VRD, the idea was to create a system that requires very little power but can be connected to a PDA or cell phone to deliver a wide field of view with high brightness. For mobile computing applications where you want to overlay digital information on top of what you see, you need the luminance to compete with the outside world."
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