Retina+Display

**A5: Social Media**
Group J: Paige Johnston, Evan Thomas, Tushayna Brackenridge, Bria Piece, Samantha Saitowitz

**Topic:**
Virtual Retina Display

**Description:**
Virtual Retina Display is the newest innovation to come to the viewing experience from monitors to televisions to laptop computers. It is a new form of display technology that aims at the retina of the eye. The person viewing the content appears to be a conventional display that is hovering in the space in front of them. This unique technique results in images that are bright, high contrast and high resolution. Virtual Retina Display gives the viewer the illusion of seeing a typical screen-sized display that hovers in the air a few feet away. The technology can provide full-color dynamic displays, but in practice the components necessary to gain the full potential of the technology are either highly expensive or simply not built yet.

**Related Links:**
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/research/vrd/ http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/anim/Mov.htm http://hackaday.com/2012/04/09/projecting-video-directly-onto-the-retina/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0hF0cbw8E http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/brothers-airscouter-floats-a-16-inch-display-onto-your-eye-bisc/ http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/p-95-1/ http://www.google.com/patents/US5659327 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiaHK7JNrtw