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I first heard about the Avegant Glyph while browsing Reddit, w a post titled, “The Avegant Glyph projects images directly on to your retinas,” caught my eye.
The Glyph doesn’t have a screen; it sort of uses your eyes as the screen.
“Avegant’s patented Retinal Imaging Technology uses advanced optics and an array of two million mirrors to project images directly to your eyes to recreate natural sight,” the company says on its website.
“After just a couple hours you’ll probably find that your nose hurts and your eyes are a little tired. The screen on the Glyph has three brightness settings and all of them are searingly intense. When you take the Glyph off, you’ll have a ghostly square hovering in your field of vision, like you were staring at a pixelated sun.”
“It all depends on the light levels, the light concentration. T’s nothing inntly bad about projecting directly onto the retina,” Banks told Tech Insider.
“If all the light was brought into one point on the retina, then you could worry about injuring the retina,” he said.
So you probably don’t have to worry about the Avegant Glyph wrecking your eyes, though it’s always important that scientists keep testing these things for safety, in case t are problems we haven’t found yet.