Image: BRYAN CHRISTIE DESIGN, based on a prototype display by Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory, Inc.
OPTICAL SYSTEMS superimpose computer graphics on the user's view of the world. In this current design, the prisms reflect the graphics on a liquid-crystal display into the user's line of sight yet still allow light from the surrounding world to pass through. A system of sensors and targets keeps track of the position and orientation of the user's head, ensuring that the graphics appear in the correct places. But in present-day optical systems, the graphics cannot completely obscure the objects behind them.
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