A COMFORT-FIRST DISPLAY STUDY
Keep the light and compute on the body. Shape the image near the eye. A research concept for adaptable, see-through displays and independently adjustable optics.
Optical research concept. Wearable packaging, visual comfort, image quality and complete-system eye safety are unresolved.
Keep the world visible.
Explore the light.Design intentions and planning values.
Not complete-system ratings.
THOUGHT IN EVERY INTERFACE
A body-worn puck handles sources, compute, battery and most cooling. Local optical engines give the light its spatial structure.
The current local-panel proposal uses two RGB LCoS banks per eye alongside a wide conventional micro-OLED image. A see-through combiner brings display and world light toward shared correction optics. Each optical path has a defined job—and an explicit evidence boundary.
THE ARCHITECTURE, OPENED UP
Illumination travels through fiber. Image-forming modulation happens on the glasses. This is the local-panel research proposal.
One-eye functional diagram. Two RGB banks supply six local LCoS channels per eye; the OLED path is separate. The see-through combiner and shared prescription ordering follow the functional proposal; detailed surfaces and packaging are not frozen. Fiber does not carry an already formed image.
Laser sources, regulated drivers, compute, battery and most cooling live in the wired puck. Two RGB source groups split toward the two eyes.
Six diode wavelengths do not mean twelve independently adjustable source powers. Exact source, power and cooling budgets remain open.
MADE CONCRETE
Reference dimensions and proposed interfaces make the concept tangible. Full packaging remains part of the design work.
Two RGB banks per eye, three local panels per bank. Optional DMD amplitude stages add routing and relays; they are not assumed in the baseline visual.
Artificial-eye starting target with nominal 4 mm reconstructed pupil. These are proposed qualification targets, not achieved field, detail or eyebox ratings.
A prescription design reference, with 18–25 mm eye-relief exploration. Complete lens stack, frame outline and local-bank packaging remain unresolved.
OPEN ABOUT WHAT GOES INTO IT
USD component references, historical source snapshots and clearly visible gaps.
Twelve × $175 HDMI modules or twelve × $255 prism bundles. FL09S is field-sequential display hardware; its listed price does not establish phase-only control or the required simultaneous RGB behavior.
Component source ↗The HOLOEYE LUNA reference has specified phase modulation and 60 Hz normal input, but quote-only pricing and an external driver box. It is a qualification reference, not a selected wearable bank.
Component source ↗Two conventional image paths plus the holographic branch, polarization, RGB combining, order filtering and pupil-delivery optics.
RGB illumination, splitters/coupling, twelve binocular feeds, source regulation, compute, power and cooling.
Shared correction stack, per-eye adjustments, eye cameras, steering and stable mechanical datums.
DMD channels need real optical mappings; an optical world-view telescope is separate from digital zoom, OLED focus and prescription.
THE QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING
The current proposal starts with fixed reflective see-through combining optics. A waveguide remains a later coupler candidate. The unusual part is local programmable wavefront modulation alongside a conventional OLED path; a thin lossless waveguide is not assumed to solve the optical stack.
In this local-panel proposal the fibers deliver illumination before spatial modulation. The local LCoS engines then shape the wavefront. The separate remote coefficient/recorded-decoder research architecture uses a different tether and feedback model; its budgets are not combined with this one.
Manual per-eye correction and removable world-view telescope concepts are being explored as independent modules. Their adjustment limits, optical calibration, direct view and ray traces are not complete. Display crop, OLED focus and holographic depth are not the same as magnifying the real world.
There is no parts-backed complete weight, heat, power or cost total for the local twelve-panel configuration, and no integrated wearable result is documented. The visual is an optical layout study. Comfort is a goal; eye safety and an enclosed artificial-eye evidence program must be resolved before human use.
THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED. OPENLY EXPLAINED.