Interactive OLED data eyeglasses wins INNOVATION AWARD IT 2013

Dr. Rigo Herold, system designer at Fraunhofer COMEDD, who has developed the data eyeglasses
principally, is pleased about such recognition of his work: “This award shows especially that - apart
from Google - intensive research on data eyeglasses is done also in Germany. However, our OLED
data eyeglasses have a sensational unique feature: They can be gaze-controlled by the user´s eyes. My special thanks go as well to our partners Fraunhofer IOSB and Trivisio.“

The OLED data eyeglasses of Fraunhofer COMEDD convinced a professional jury of 100 professors,
scientists, industrial representatives, IT experts and journalists since they meet all requirements: They are innovative, have practical relevance and are especially suitable for medium-sized companies.
Meanwhile the Innovation Award IT has been awarded to medium-sized businesses for the best IT
solutions for 10 years. In its anniversary year the Innovation Award IT is more than ever dedicated to
the motto We share Innovation. Altogether there were 4,900 submissions in 40 categories.

On the one hand the glasses enable the user to have a view on the real world and on the other hand
to display further virtual information. The embedded camera of the microdisplay captures the eye
movements of the user so that he can control and interact with the virtual shown information, similar
to a computer mouse. Apart from Fraunhofer COMEDD the development team included Fraunhofer
IOSB being responsible for the eye-tracking and Trivisio Prototyping GmbH for the optics design.

Data eye-glasses are used in a broad range of different applications, e. g. medical applications or to
support hand-free assembly work – they are useful for all hand-free applications where additional
information are needed.

For the evaluation of the technology and the development of customized products Fraunhofer
COMEDD offers evaluation kits.

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