A Seamless Union

As many of you know, long before I became an employee of Microvision, I became a shareholder in the company. The basic premise of see-through eyewear displays that provide an information overlay that's relevant to your current context and activity has always been, for me, a powerful idea. A seamless union of the digital and the real has fascinated me for years.

What is the value of merging the digital world and the real world? Allowing digital information to have a place in the physical world of space, of buildings, of boxes, of stuff. By moving the computer interface from a flat, fixed-pixel display on an external, hand-held device to a pair of see-through eyewear, what opportunities are enabled?

Microvision has a unique and powerful solution for enabling the capability of merging the digital and the real. Our PicoP-based see-through eyewear technology is expected to enable revolutionary lightweight displays that can be integrated into cool looking fashion sunglasses. By delivering see-through information onto your field of view, we can extend your connection to your mobile device and your personal mobile services, and deliver critical real-time data while keeping your hands free, and not inhibiting awareness of your surrounding environment and activity.

That's always been the core of the company's value proposition to me; enabling the seamless union of digital information and 3-dimensional space.

On another topic, I want to underscore a point I made in my last post that a colleague and myself were recounting today about the SID show. We brought a visitor into our booth at SID to see the new wide-angle PicoP and they stared at the image and then threw their hands up and said "I've never seen anything so amazing in my life!"

Now, imagine this kind of experience and reaction by hundreds and hundreds of people over the three days that we were exhibiting at SID. It's an extraordinary thing to experience first-hand. I've always felt this way about Microvision, that the technology held the promise to turn into something potentially life-changing for millions of people. And now, having the opportunity to present our newest technology to people for the first time, it's a great thrill. It's indescribable to see the delight when a tiny PicoP projector is pointed at the wall, then moved to the ceiling, and the image goes huge, and you see the look of excitement and recognition.

A lot of the engineers who spend the late nights at work designing these things and making this all possible don't always get to attend these events -- so it's important for those of us who do get to experience direct customer interaction with our technology to tell them -- YEAH. People get it. This experience is something that people want. All this work has the potential to touch the lives of millions of people.