Display Week in San Diego from June 1 to 6 will have a few sessions on wearable displays — and just in time to ride the tsunami of articles and potential products (see What do wearables want?) that we are reading about in the news. The symposium will have three sessions with 14 papers. Some of the interesting, high-level papers include Development of Eyewear Display Systems: A Long Journey , by Mark Spitzer of Google; Front-lit LCOS for wearable applications by authors from Himax Display; an article from Holoeye Systems on a holographic waveguide helmet-mounted visor display; a paper from Schepens Eye Research Institute on a vision-enhancement tool for people with impaired vision using Google Glass; a paper from Semiconductor Energy Laboratory about a flexible wrist-wearable display with a flexible battery; and a paper from University of Sunderland about a wearable display that uses a smartphone app that controls a high-heel shoe so that it can match the user’s outfit with some embedded sensors. We are seeing just the beginning of a technology that is limited only by our imagination.
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