By Evan Ackerman
At CES last year, we saw a prototype of Microvision’s PicoP miniature laser-based projector. Back then, I was told that the production version would most likely use LEDs, instead. I guess they decided that lasers would just be that much more awesome, because we got a look at the production version of the Microvision PicoP yesterday, and it’s absolutely laserriffic.
The PicoP uses red, green, and blue lasers to project a WVGA (848 x 480) 16:9 widescreen image with 10 lumens of brightness and a contrast ratio of better than 5,000 to 1. It was adequately bright under ambient show floor lightning, and substantially brighter than any of the other micro projectors we’ve seen this week. In a dark room it projects a tolerable image up to a staggering 100 inches, but the best part is that since it uses lasers, it’s always inherently in focus. This is an important feature, since the whole point of a micro projector is that you can whip it out and use it anywhere.
The PicoP uses an integrated battery that gives is approximately 2 hours per charge. There’s a proprietary input jack that will accept (through included adapters) composite video or VGA inputs. Look for it in Q2 of this year for about $500.
And they're public! MVIS
And they're public! MVIS
Cellphones, cameras, laptops, automobile HUD, eyewear, home theater projectors/displays…freaking huge market for Microvision. And if that wasn't enough this is basically everything you loved in the picture quality of CRT plus it uses lasers!!
Cellphones, cameras, laptops, automobile HUD, eyewear, home theater projectors/displays…freaking huge market for Microvision. And if that wasn't enough this is basically everything you loved in the picture quality of CRT plus it uses lasers!!
And they're public! MVIS
Cellphones, cameras, laptops, automobile HUD, eyewear, home theater projectors/displays…freaking huge market for Microvision. And if that wasn't enough this is basically everything you loved in the picture quality of CRT plus it uses lasers!!