UL Seeking Equipment Maker Input on Technical Panel Drafting VR Safety Standard
Underwriters Labs is seeking industry participation on a “technical panel” to help draft a UL 8400 safety standard for augmented-, virtual- and mixed-reality devices, it said Monday. The standard will address “areas of key concern,” including neck strain, optical radiation,…
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eye heat exposure and headset “motion-to-photon latency,” UL said. Developing UL 8400 “is concurrent with and in response to predicted AR/VR/MR market growth,” said UL. The combination of more affordable, compact devices, advances in 5G and Wi-Fi 6 technologies and skilled software developers “has made this area ripe for growth,” it said. Forecasts are that consumers will be using more than 100 million AR/VR/MR headsets and smart glasses by 2023, it said.