Forget strapping on a bulky headset to experience augmented reality*. Microsoft has revealed a new system that looks like thick-framed eye glasses.

The crude prototype provides an 80-degree horizontal* field of view and uses near-eye holographic* displays to overlay reality with digital holograms.

In addition to showing users an augmented world, the eye glasses have also demonstrated a vision correction capability for both near-sightedness and far-sightedness, as well as other vision problems like astigmatism*.

“The proposed holographic displays provide full color, high resolution, and high quality imagery and are capable of true per-pixel focal control and user vision correction,” the team wrote in a paper.

“We provide optical design variations capable of large fields of view with very compact form factors. We provide a software implementation that is capable of real-time computation either directly or through eye tracked approximations and integration with the rendering pipeline.”

The team explained that their solution to virtual reality and augmented reality is something called holography. The team incorporated eye-tracking technology so users could choose the focal point of the display in real-time.

(SD-Agencies)