Live Map Augmented Reality Helmet

We saw these guys a while ago, from Russia.

Almost certainly this uses PicoP -- We'll see. 

Did receive a message that suggests they aren't using PicoP any longer. I'm agnostic about it at this point. Their original test case was ShowWX and the Sony module is much better than that, and a plug and play kind of component.

Yahoo thread about Use of PicoP or not

From Motorauthority

Previous Livemap Post

Why The Russian Interest?? Possibilities discussed

Interest from Russia in what is posted here has grown to the point that traffic from Russia is dwarfing the traffic from anywhere else.

So maybe some investors are curious about the tech in Russia.



Not quite sure why that is. One of the suggestions was that Putin is watching me. So, hello Mr. Putin, stop by, I have some good Vodka in the freezer.

Another possibility: Livemap is making some headway.  (which we are nearly certain has been using PicoP)

LiveMap Motorcycle helmet.  

LiveMap here 

From MotorAuthority

Another Suggestion. (Reddit) I like this one. Parts of Russia are getting a lot of Chinese immigrants. (If this is the case, I wonder why the same amount of attention isn't coming from China. Perhaps the degree or manner in which the internet is controlled in China is very different.)

ABC News (Much more at the source.)

The Chinese are invading Russia — not with tanks, but with suitcases.

It’s impossible to know the exact level of Chinese migration into the Russian Far East; Russia has not run a census in over a decade. But by all indications, a significant river of people is surging across the border.

The Moscow Carnegie Center, the only organization to launch an independent study, claimed that there were about 250,000 Chinese in Russia in 1997. The Interior Ministry has claimed that there are 2 million. Other estimates place the Chinese population at 5 million.

Regardless, the Federal Migration Service fears a flood. The service has repeatedly warned that the Chinese could become the dominant ethnic group in the Russian Far East in 20 to 30 years. Such an occurrence would require an annual influx of about 250,000 to 300,000 Chinese, less than one-third the rate that Shaikin currently claims.

There are reasons to believe that the flow will hit these levels, with at least tacit help from Beijing. The Russian Far East is becoming China’s safety valve, much like Mexico lets off population pressures with migration into the United States. China has more than 1.2 billion people — more than eight times Russia’s population. Only 7.4 million Russians populate the entire Russian Far East, versus more than 70 million in northeast China. The Russian Far East is comparatively empty, with only 1.3 people per kilometer. China’s Manchurian population has increased 13 percent in a little more than a decade.

Qualper attention or Phone release in Russia? (also from Reddit)

MobileRU (More at the source here as well.)

Translation below by Google

This Qualper QU1. As you might guess from the name, is the debut of a smartphone. And there she decided to place the camera in a very unusual place. How did she get there? Note the break in the rim, is in the left side of the upper end. Solid such centimeter two break. There is a built-in projector smartphone. This arrangement made it Qualper move the camera to the right. However, I do not understand why it was impossible to place the projector on the right and left of the camera, where it would look more logical. The projector is the cause and other features Qualper QU1: large thickness (12.8 mm) and weight (237 g). Other features QU1: 5,5 "Full HD-screen, 4000 mAh battery, 13-megapixel and 5-megapixel camera, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of ROM, an eight chipset with 1.3 GHz (MediaTek MT6753, probably).

LiveMap Helmet (updated 5/21/2015)

I am not sure this is using Microvision, but it does look promising. (the text below from their website talks about using PicoP in various resolutions. They aren't referring to a resolution that specifically singles out Microvision or Microvision/Sony)

They also talk of using a lense, which doesn't speak to Microvision -- although the installation is unusual and such an unusual installation may require a lense.

If it is not Microvision's PicoP -- it is a potential market for it.

To be unveiled in MAY 2015 

"The final version will be unveiled in the US in May, and go on sale in August, costing 2,000 dollars each."

Recent Summary Article (Added 5/21/15)

LiveMap Helmet YouTube Channel

LiveMap Website







The video below, they mention "laser pico engine" twice between 4:25-4:50 (it's all interesting.)




From Livemap.info/news

2014 Year’ result in R&D, news about finance injection.

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December 19, 2014 

Do you want heard news about our product?

Did we tell you that we decided to switch to the more comfortable flip-up scheme & said about it in TechCrunch Hardware battlefield CES 2014? Yes, we did.

All 2014 year we are busy building the pre-production prototype of the new optics – tiny and effective. It’s a quite new approach based on aspherical elements. Specs and drawings cannot be disclosed yet until the patent application is approved. Otherwise we will not be able to obtain the patent in the USA and Europe according to the law.

We make serial version in aspheric optics to minimize volume & weight (1st variant in the video reel & our public plans based on the spherical optics, and it’s answer why 1st variant integral helmet have unusual size). A single aspheric lens can often replace a much more complex multi-lens system. The resulting device is smaller and lighter, and sometimes cheaper than the multi-lens design.

You can read about this in 2 links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspheric_lens
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/opinion/html/aspherical.htm

Aspheric optics it’s very hard work in calculation & a lot of work to start mass production. I understand is hard to understanding & i have short example to show it – Many objectives Nikon/Tamron/Canon/Zeiss have only 1-2 aspheric lenses in objectives and other 4-7 spherical, but in our serial product all lenses will be aspheric with with ultra precision characteristics .

The other hard task in this work, to control cost serial optics, in 2014 year we made 5 absolutely different new designs (a few hundreds implementations in Zemax) optic system & downgrade costs for serial optics from a few thousands $ to a few hundred $ at this moment, aspheric optics is not cheaper (ask google, about price for objectives with aspheric lenses) & make aspheric design with good/normal costs for mass-market is a little crazy hard task.

We prepared our serial product at 720p picop engine (in the 1st prototype, you can see it in the video-reel, we already use 848×480 picop eniges). It’s will be “Retina” projection system. New optic system have higher resolution (2.2X more pixels than previous prototype) & have 3 times brighter than previous well-known 1st prototype & at the same time have only 30% volume from 1st optic prototype.

In order to provide this specifications, we have broken the theoretical limits in Aspheric optics & downgrade costs to produce aspheric optics with ultra precision characteristics.

The work was carried out by two science institutes in Russia together with optical glass melt company from Japan and worldwide market leader in aspheric optics (company from USA). Total number of engineers and opticians who worked on this work was more than 20 people from different countries.

Received results of our work are disruptive innovation in the aspheric optics industry, thats is the answer why Russian Ministry of Science support us and give us grant in December, the amount of 300 000 USD for R&D and for building revolutionary aspheric prototype.

PS We will present pre-serial prototype in the Spring 2015.
We will start sales final helmets in the Summer 2015 in the 1st market USA.