7. AVEGANT
For making a giant tech leap toward miniaturizing smart glasses
Augmented reality glasses face some significant technology hurdles. So far no tech company has managed to fit the displays, sensors, processors, and battery into a form factor small enough and light enough to be worn for extended periods. The small Menlo Park, California-based component supplier Avegant, however, may have cleared one important hurdle by miniaturizing the light engines that produce digital imagery within the lenses of AR glasses. The company says its innovative AG-50L light engines, which it launched in September, are no thicker than a pencil and weigh about as much as a paper clip. They use eye-tracking sensors to project light just where the user is looking. The company intends to sell its light engines to tech companies that are now trying to overcome the R&D challenges of developing AR glasses that look reasonably similar in size and weight to regular glasses.
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