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'Laser vision' offers new insights

Apr-26-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Here's a lengthy article describing the Nomad laser vision system employed by the Stryker Brigade.

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US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision.

It could allow surgeons to get a bird's eye view of the innards of a patient, offer military units in the field a view of the entire battlefield and provide mechanics with a simulation of the inside of a car's engine. [...]

Already 100 of the see-through laser-based displays have been shipped to Iraq for use by the US Army's Stryker Brigade. [...]

The military got so-called scanned-beam technology off the ground in the 1980s, producing helmet-mounted displays to improve fighter pilots' field of vision.

Microvision licensed the patent that came out of the research done at the University of Washington and has been working on the system ever since.


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