When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works

Home / News / MWC 2013 – Fujitsu Laser Headset shows Google Glass how it’s done

MWC 2013 – Fujitsu Laser Headset shows Google Glass how it’s done

Imagine a screen floating in your vision – allowing you to see normally, but feeding you visual information at the same time

In a dark corner of the Fujitsu stand at MWC 2013 we spotted what looked like a big pair of headphones with a plastic cone attached – which everyone was ignoring.

On closer inspection it was explained that if we tried on this Laser Headset we’d not only look like Borg (left in above photo), but function like one too.

This prototype uses a laser to project an image (in this case a hi-res video) onto a clear mirror in front of your eye which bounces it back into your retina. Switch it on, and you can see a wide 40 degree viewing angle of a screen floating in your line of sight.

We tried them out, and discovered that they produced a translucent image, letting us look through the projected image to see the world around us. When we wanted a cleaer view we just looked at a nearby black wall and it was like a TV was mounted right there.

And the best bit? Because it uses small parts and a translucent mirror, Fujitsu says it will have the technology condensed into a pair of sunglasses (right in above pic) ready to launch at MWC 2014. You won’t even be able to tell they’re more than normal glasses.

We’re excited to see them in action next year and can only imagine Google will be throwing money at Fujitsu’s patent department soon to get this tech into the bulkier looking Project Glass.

Read other news from MWC 2013 here.

You might also like

MWC 2013 – will the iPhone 6’s Home button be a fingerprint scanner?

This is what the PS4 menus look like

Profile image of Dan Grabham Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home