Samsung has grabbed the rights to AR glasses that would create 3D projected images, according to reports from technology and lifestyle website SlashGear.
It marks a departure from AR (or smart) glass concepts such as Google Glass that deliver images to the user’s eye by making them appear on the glass.
Samsung is calling its approach a “holographic see-through optical device” and SlashGear has reported that its patent application has been granted.
According to SlashGear the application said: “Most of the known optical devices of augmented reality are based on a combination of eyepiece eyepieces to enlarge an image formed by LCDs, LCoSs, CRTs, OLEDs, or other spatial light modulators having compact size and image combiners are based on, for example, a beam-splitting cube or a semi-transparent plate.”
Therefore, Samsung is clearly differentiating itself from heads up displays offered by a wide range of manufacturers – itself and Google included.
Interestingly SlashGear also points out that - although the patent was published on August 17, 2017 - it was actually filed back in July 2015.
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