Description du projet
Une percée innovante dans les lunettes intelligentes
La réalité augmentée recouvre le contenu numérique devant le monde réel. Il est principalement expérimenté à travers des lunettes portables et des casques. Ces dernières années, une course folle s’est engagée pour produire des lunettes à succès commercial. À ce jour, tous ces produits présentent des inconvénients majeurs comme la faible luminosité, la faible résolution et la réduction de la correction de la vue, ce qui limite l’expérience de la réalité augmentée. Le projet MICROPIX, financé par l’UE, marque une innovation majeure avec l’utilisation de la technologie microLED. Leur solution aux problèmes existants consiste à créer des matrices RVB pour micro-écrans haut de gamme, adaptées aux lunettes intelligentes de réalité augmentée de pointe.
Objectif
The nascent global augmented reality market is expected to exceed $60 billion in 2023, and offers a lot of growth opportunitites. We expect Augmented Reality to become a part of everyday life as AR smart glasses will make people more connected than ever, in real time, with hands-free and heads-up toward the world. They will also be used to increase productivity for companies in most industries.
The race to produce the first pair of commercially successful augmented reality glasses is on, but all products present major drawbacks such as low brightness, low resolution, big size, small field of view, reduced eye box resulting in limited experience. All major drawbacks are linked to microdisplays' weaknesses.
Many miniaturised components from the smartphone industry can be integrated into smart glasses but the display is the bottleneck and the main challenge for manufacturers.
Current commercialized microdisplays will never meet requirements to produce cutting-edge smart glasses. A new generation of microdisplay has to emerge.
MicroLED technology, the same LED technology which revolutionized general lighting 10 years ago but scaled down to microscale pixels, is the most promising solution and must be developed.
MicroLED displays have the potential to change everything as they can offer unparalleled higher brightness, a better reliability be more compact, offer lower latency, provide better contrast ratio and be energy efficient compared to current display technologies. This is exactly what the AR smart glasses market needs.
Our latest breakthrough innovation will bring the solution by allowing the fabrication of full color RGB matrices for high-end microdisplays, completely adapted to cutting-edge augmented & mixed reality smart glasses.
It is a great opportunity and a good timing to scale-up Novagan in the global microdisplay market.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
1003 Lausanne
Suisse
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.