Kopin to Launch New Version of Solos Smart Glasses in ‘Few Weeks,’ Says CEO
Kopin’s new generation of Solos smart glasses for fitness enthusiasts, which the company announced at CES, will launch in “a few weeks,” said Kopin CEO John Fan on a Thursday earnings call. “The devil is in the details” of the…
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launch, said Fan. “There are so many details that affect us, including even packaging, how the box will look like, everything. So, we're in the final stretch right now.” The new version of Solos enables cyclists and runners “to leverage wearable sensors to provide real-time progress updates, such as speed, power, heartbeat and many other metrics,” and use the Solos smartphone app “to track their progress,” said Fan. Kopin believes its Elf virtual-reality headset, also shown at CES, “is the most compact and lightweight virtual reality headset developed today,” said Fan. The Elf incorporates a pair of Kopin’s Lightning OLED displays that render 2048x2048 resolution for each eye, he said. The effect is to “deliver a picture-like image” to the user while eliminating “potential” VR motion sickness because of its high 120 Hz refresh rate, he said. Kopin regards the Elf as “the first VR headset that meets the size, weight and performance” requirements “that may drive adoption of VR technology” to the masses, he said. Kopin introduced its first Lightning OLED displays at 2017 CES, “and now, in just one year's time, we have increased the brightness of OLED displays by a factor of 10, an amazing improvement in performance,” he said.