Mreal Display MD-20 (AR headset)

2020: Announcement

At the beginning of February, 2020 Canon provided the corporate AR headset with the ultrahigh permission. The device is intended for the different companies by which augmented reality, including for car makers can be required.

The wearable device under the name Mreal Display MD-20 includes the double screens soldered in the black plastic body which keeps in the face of the user using a wide ring with a soft lining. The unusual design allows Canon company to use atypical images with the ultrahigh resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels for each eye and to receive wide horizontal (70 degrees) and a vertical field of the overview (40 degrees). Screens of Canon issue the picture with a frame frequency up to 60 fps and reproduce 99% of sRGB colors.

Canon provided the corporate AR headset with the ultrahigh permission

Other element is the front camera with "a unique lock" in which three CMOS sensors, the respective lines of a direct look of the user are used. They allow to impose with a high accuracy computer images over real. Canon claims that MD-20 generates space cards in real time which precisely consider the current location and a viewing field of the user so digital objects are easily integrated with real. Additional external markers and sensors can be also used for providing data of three-dimensional positioning without display on the device.

In addition to visualization photorealistic 3D - objects, MD-20 can display interfaces of the virtual touch menu with controls and access to several applications, including to third-party. The headset is compatible to the software of Mreal developed for the previous MD-10 model. The new model weighs only 60% more, than her predecessor - 1040 grams - though Canon hopes to lose weight before release of the camera on the market.

The producer by the beginning of February, 2020 does not set terms and the price of sales of innovation.^[1]

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