Vuzix (NASDAQ: VUZI) Announces Its Intention to Offer High Durability Plastic Waveguide Design and Production Capabilities
Vuzix (NASDAQ: VUZI), a leader in smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology, has announced plans to offer plastic waveguides along with its existing glass options. These new plastic waveguides will be showcased at the Augmented World Expo USA 2024 from June 18-20 in Long Beach, California. Plastic waveguides offer advantages like greater impact resistance and lighter weight compared to glass. Despite having a lower refractive index, they are suitable for certain field of view configurations and can be made extremely flat, enabling integrated vision correction. Vuzix's current equipment can accommodate plastic substrates, enhancing their design and production capabilities for lighter smart glasses.
- Announcement of new plastic waveguides for smart glasses, enhancing product durability and reducing weight.
- Showcase of new waveguide technology at Augmented World Expo USA 2024, indicating readiness for market exposure.
- Existing fabrication equipment can accommodate new plastic substrates, suggesting no need for additional capital expenditure.
- Plastic waveguides have a lower refractive index compared to high-index glass formulations, which may limit their application in certain configurations.
- Pre-production plastic waveguides will be on display at this week's Augmented World Expo
Plastic waveguides offer several potential advantages over glass, most notably greater impact resistance and lighter weight. They can offer refractive indexes of 1.70 or greater, below that of high-index glass formulations, but still sufficient for certain field of view (FOV) waveguide configurations. Like glass, plastic waveguides can be made extremely flat, which is necessary for adding integrated vision correction.
"The benefits of our new plastic waveguides are significant, supporting lighter and more durable systems. The ability to design and manufacture polymer-based waveguides will be yet another competitive feather in our cap as our waveguide capabilities continue to be at the front end of the state-of-the-art," said Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. "Our existing fabrication equipment and processes will readily accommodate plastic of almost any sized substrate, allowing us to support the design and production of smart glasses that can be lighter and at the forefront of the most requested materials for waveguide substrates to be built on."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer markets. The Company's products include head-mounted smart personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality, as well OEM waveguide optical components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 375 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields of optics, head-mounted displays, and augmented reality Video Eyewear field. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics solution provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2024 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in:
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