The Fraunhofer is going to show advances in OLED microdisplays at the 2010 Society for Information Display (SID) exhibition. The first is advances in their data-glasses, first shown back in 2009. These are using Bidirectional Microdisplays - an element that displays an image and acts as a camera at the same time by interleaving display pixels and photo detectors in a mosaic style. They are actually going to show a fully functional demonstrator. The integrated camera looks at the eye and records any change in the position of the eyeball. A subsequent image processing can distinguish between unconscious movements and the ones the user does by intent. The overall system can modify the content that is shown on the display according to the eye movements - and you get Augmented Reality.
Fraunhofer will also present the results of the HYPOLED project. Based on a VGA full color micro display, a Head Mounted Display has been realized that allows watching videos without disturbance by the environment. They are using three monochrome OLED VGA micro displays. A so called Mediabox, also the result of the HYPOLED project, drives both the HMD and the projector and allows playback of content stored on flash drives, reception of Digital TV channels, as well as playback of video streams received via Wireless LAN. Fraunhofer will show demos of all these components at SID.
