K-Glass Smart Glasses Inspired by Brain Power

Feb-20-14 The K-Glass smart glasses stand out from other smart glasses with their human brain-based processing, which allows them to recognize relevant and irrelevant visual information without the need for barcodes, QR codes or other markers.

The team from KAIST developed the new AR chip based on the Visual Attention Model (VAM). The VAM mimics the way the human brain processes visual data by automatically recognizing the most important pieces of visual information in the environment and selectively ignoring unnecessary data. By doing so, the processor is able to function much more quickly, which also reduces power consumption by 76 percent.

Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo went on to predict the evolution of such head-mounted displays: "HMDs will become the next mobile device, eventually taking over smartphones. Their markets have been growing fast, and it's really a matter of time before mobile users will eventually embrace an optical see-through HMD as part of their daily use.”

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