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Kopin Corporation Announces New All-Plastic Pancake® Optics with Excellent Performance for Virtual Reality (Metaverse) Applications
Unique Pancake Optics Design and World’s Leading 1.3” 2.6K x 2.6K OLED Display Offer Exceptional Comfort and Ease of Use with Extremely Sharp Image
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nUnique Pancake Optics Design and World’s Leading 1.3” 2.6K x 2.6K OLED Display Offer Exceptional Comfort and Ease of Use with Extremely Sharp Image\n\n WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nKopin® Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, announced today it has developed a new all-plastic Pancake® optics for its new-generation 1.3” 2.6K x 2.6K Lightning® organic light emitting diode (OLED) microdisplay with outstanding performance for virtual reality (VR) applications. The new Pancake optics (named P80) enables the design of compact, lightweight, stylish VR glasses that are comfortable to wear for extended hours with no need for adjustment, even for people who wear eyeglasses. The P80 Pancake optics provides a very sharp, 77° field-of-view (FOV) image with very long (23 mm) eye relief and large (12-mm-diameter) eye box. Kopin previously announced the world’s first all-plastic Pancake optics with 95° FOV but with a smaller eye relief and eye box.\n\nPancake optics, compared to other optics designs, can provide far superior magnified image quality in a much thinner form factor, especially for VR headset products with FOV ranging from 50° to 100°. However, previous Pancake optics needed at least one spherical glass lens to avoid image artifacts caused by birefringence of plastic materials, but this spherical glass lens added both weight and cost to the lens system as well as reduced optical design flexibilities compared to aspherical plastic lens. Kopin’s patent-pending two-element Pancake optics design, together with processes to make aspherical plastic lenses with virtually no birefringence, has provided much better image quality, much smaller size, lighter weight and lower cost than anything previously available.\n\nKopin's P80 all-plastic Pancake optics, optimized for Kopin’s world-leading 1.3\" 2.6K x 2.6K organic light emitting diode (OLED) microdisplay (2560 x 2560 resolution), provides an extremely sharp image with excellent modular transfer function even out to the edge of the field of view, a critical and difficult to achieve performance feature for VR applications. Combined with Kopin's 2.6K x 2.6K high-brightness OLED microdisplay, the P80 pancake optics provides a virtual image equiva...