In order to solve this problem, Apple now patents a laser based head mounted display for its iPod and iPhone products. Head mounted display is nothing new to us, as we’ve seen couple of them before, but Apple has a pretty unique way of making it, which they’re gonna produce a super thin head-mounted display.

Most of the bulk in the head-mounted display comes from the video image generation and display components. The Apple’s head-mounted display could stay super thin is because they move the image generation electronics, the laser engine and other optics into a compact battery powered box, that can be clipped to the users belt. Transmission of laser-generated video to the headset will be via the optical cable. And of course, the headset display will also be made of ultra thin wedge optics, which is no more than 2 mm in thickness, making the entire device super thin and light.

When the device is not in use for displaying video, the display will become transparent which the user can see through, so the user can just leave it sitting on the head, wearing it like traditional eye glasses. Article brought to you via www.techchee.com