Lumus
Lumus is a company that makes optical engines and waveguides for near-eye displays. Its focus has been on AR glasses and headsets. It is based in Israel. Its CEO is Ari Grobman.
Lumus' waveguides are in some products, such as Thirdeye's X2 MR Glasses, Lenovo's ThinkReality A6, Thales' Scorpion full-color head mounted display, Augmedics xVision system, and MediThinQ's medical devices.[1]
Lumus technology was used by Meta for the Meta Pro headset.[2][3]
Lumus supplied Thales Avionics PD-14 optical engines for the Scorpion helmet platform to military.[4]
History[edit]
Lumus was founded by Yaakov Amitai.[2]
Technology[edit]
Lumus markets "reflective waveguides".[5]
Lumus works with Quanta.[5] Lumus provided Quanta license to produce Lumus optical engines.[5]
Lumus worked with Schott on a 2D pupil expanding reflective waveguide.[6]
Products[edit]
- Lumus Maximus
- Lumus Vision
- Lumus DK-Vision
- Lumus DK-32
- Lumus DK-40
- Lumus DK-45
- Lumus DK-50
- Lumus DK-51[7]
- Lumus DK-52
- Lumus OE-32
- Lumus TD-2020[8]
- PD14[9]
DK-Vision H is a headset from Lumus.
Patents[edit]
- US11092810B2[10]
- US11966062B2 - Head-mounted augmented reality device employing an optical bench[11]
- US8405573B2 - Distributed head-mounted display system[12]
- US20220373810A1 - Light-guide optical element employing polarized internal reflectors[13]
- US20220004001A1 - Light-Guide Display with Reflector[14]
- US20230350121A1 - Light guide optical assembly[15]
- US20220334391A1 - Aperture Multiplier with Depolarizer[16]
- US11934002B2 - Optical systems including light-guide optical elements with two-dimensional expansion[17]
- US11513352B2 - Augmented reality display[18]
- US11994705B2 - Light-guide optical element with multiple-axis internal aperture expansion[19]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Lumus and AddOptics Partner to Directly Bond Waveguides with Prescription Lenses, Crossing a New Threshold in Augmented Reality Performance". 2024-06-18. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumus-and-addoptics-partner-to-directly-bond-waveguides-with-prescription-lenses-crossing-a-new-threshold-in-augmented-reality-performance-302175254.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Lumus DK-40". 2015-07-28. https://www.hcenat.zcu.cz/wiki/index.php/Lumus_DK-40#cite_note-ref2-5.
- ↑ Boxall, Andy (2014-03-10). "Lumus Optical adds military-spec tech to consumer smart glasses". https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/lumus-optical-adds-military-spec-tech-to-consumer-smart-glasses/#/3.
- ↑ "Lumus, a leading manufacturer of AR glasses". https://pronetkrakow.com.pl/en/content/234-lumus-a-leading-manufacturer-of-ar-glasses.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Lumus Manufacturing Partnerships". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3A47DavUPM.
- ↑ "SCHOTT Presentation of Lumus 2D Reflective Waveguide Mass Manufacturability". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHq7sf3HYA.
- ↑ "DK-51 Flyer". https://lumusvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DK-51-Flyer.pdf.
- ↑ "TD-2020". 2023-11-06. https://lumusvision.com/products/pd14/.
- ↑ "PD14" (in en-US). https://web.archive.org/web/20170108120332if_/http://lumusvision.com:80/products/pd14/.
- ↑ "Optical aperture expansion arrangement for near-eye displays". 2018-11-21. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11092810B2/.
- ↑ "Head-mounted augmented reality device employing an optical bench". 2023-04-30. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11966062B2/en.
- ↑ "Distributed head-mounted display system". 2008-06-01. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8405573B2/en.
- ↑ "Light-Guide Optical Element Employing Polarized Internal Reflectors". 2022-08-08. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220373810A1/en.
- ↑ "Light-Guide Display with Reflector". 2019-11-10. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220004001A1/en.
- ↑ "Light guide optical assembly". 2023-07-11. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230350121A1/en.
- ↑ "Aperture Multiplier with Depolarizer". 2022-07-04. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220334391A1/.
- ↑ "Optical systems including light-guide optical elements with two-dimensional expansion". 2023-06-28. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11934002B2/en.
- ↑ "Augmented reality display". 2018-09-23. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11513352B2/en.
- ↑ "Light-guide optical element with multiple-axis internal aperture expansion". 2022-06-15. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11994705B2/en.