Edinburgh, UK 14 November2008 - As one of the first commercially available ranges of video glasses, VuzixTM iWear® is using the eyescreen® full-colour organic microdisplay from MicroEmissive Displays to deliver large-screen viewing experiences to its new AV230XL device.
The new video eyewear uses MED’s microdisplays, which are similar in size to the human pupil, to equal the visual effect of a conventional 44-inch TV screen. The glasses can be connected to almost any video device such as a personal video player, cellphone, PC, or game terminal, and will enrich the user experience on offer from innovations such as mobile TV, video telephony and virtual reality. The sub-$200 selling price will open up exciting video experiences to a broad consumer market.
“eyescreen® has played a major role in enabling Vuzix to realise its vision and deliver this new addition to the iWear range successfully to the market,” said Bill Miller, CEO of MED. “This will create powerful new ways for people to enjoy many types of media and virtual reality, and I am delighted that MED has provided important technology to make it happen.”
The new AV230XL will allow consumers to experience the full richness of games and media wherever and whenever they like. MED’s advanced technology solutions and expertise with microdisplays has been critical to Vuzix achieving their product performance goals.
MED’s Polymer Organic LED (P-OLED) technology is crucial to achieving high visual performance with an ultra-small form factor and low power. With integrated driver ICs as well as a digital interface to the host system, the eyescreen® microdisplay also solves important integration challenges for product designers and accelerates time to market.
MicroEmissive Displays (MED - AIM, London Stock Exchange) is a leader in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplay technology. The company was founded in 1999 and has developed a unique emissive microdisplay technology by using a P-OLED layer on a CMOS substrate. In late 2004, MicroEmissive Displays floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and the first product release and commercial shipments of MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen® microdisplays were made in 2005. The company held the official opening of its volume manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany in May 2007.
About MicroEmissive Displays
MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registration for the research, design, development, marketing, manufacturing and sales of digital microdisplay solutions. MicroEmissive Displays is headquartered at the Scottish Microelectronics Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland and its manufacturing site is in Dresden, Germany. The company employs more than 70 people and also has sales representatives and applications support located in Asia, the USA and Europe.
About eyescreen®
MicroEmissive Displays’ eyescreen® products are the world’s only polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) microdisplays. The full colour eyescreen® combines superb TV quality moving video images that are free from flicker, with ultra-low power consumption, enabling greatly extended battery life for the consumer. This enhancement in battery usage time made possible by the eyescreen® will play a vital role in the widespread adoption of portable head-sets for personal TV and video viewing in the consumer marketplace. The innovative design of the eyescreen® with its integrated driver ICs and its digital interface, offers product design engineers a fast, robust design-in solution for smaller, lighter-weight, stylish products of the future, all for a size comparable with the pupil of the human eye.
EYESCREEN is a Registered Trade Mark of MicroEmissive Displays Limited.
