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Google Glass 3D optical layout reconstruction, based on teardown information

中文读者请看  Google Glass 使用了哪种显示技术?具体是怎么实现的? http://www.zhihu.com/question/20276179

Chinese reader please hit this:  http://www.zhihu.com/question/20276179

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Since my major is Optical Engineering, I am very exciting about Google Glass, and also keep eyes on it from the beginning. Several months after introduced glass, the explore edition hit the developer. Some of them make a teardown test, even it was not a completely teardown, we can get lots of information from it.

This post is an original “research” article, based on teardown information that I can find in the Internet. Shows how we can get an almost complete optical layout from the information.

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First, according to several hackers and developers[1][2][3][4][5], the hardware configuration is:

CPU: TI OMAP4430

RAM: 682 MB

Display resolution: 640 x 360 pixel (very important information)

Internal storage: 16 GByte

Sensors:

Invensense MPU9150=Invensense MPU6050 (3 axis gyroscope + 3 axis accelerometer)+Asahi Kasei AKM8975 (3 axis geomagnetic sensor(compass))

LiteON LTR-506ALS rear-facing sensor(RFS) or “proximity” sensor

One more thing, glass support “wink” command, up to 20 winks!

So here is main information source from teardown test from Bill Detwiler [1] [5] <- hit it, very good articles. He opened the front shell ……

Click here to view original post from Bill Detwiler

Figure 1 cracking open Glass from Bill Detwiler and TechRepublic. I think (a) the flexible PCB with white characters is the interconnection between these module; (b) the small connector near the prism is connected to RGB LED light source.

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