Kopin Corporation announced that at CES 2018 it will demonstrate a range of CES Innovation Award winning augmented reality, virtual reality and mobile entertainment headsets incorporating Kopin’s components, technologies and designs. SOLOS Smart Glasses is the ultra-lightweight smart eyewear aerodynamically designed to improve the athlete’s performance in comfort and style. The original SOLOS smart glasses for cyclists was a 2017 CES Innovation Award Honoree. Building upon the original features for cyclists, Kopin is showing this year the new generation of its SOLOS smart glasses which enable cyclists and runners to leverage wearable sensors to provide real-time progress updates such as elapsed time, speed, power, pace, cadence, heart rate and more. Athletes can set targets and use the SOLOS platform to track progress on those targets. Athletes can also listen to music, view mobile notifications, receive audio and visual instructions, make phone calls and control their glasses with voice commands. SOLOS also provides an advanced group communication feature. Great for a group training with friends, the feature allows coaches and athletes the ability to communicate with each other during their performance, extending a coach’s capabilities even further, allowing them to provide cues to slow down, speed up or reach the next heart rate zone. Kopin will demonstrate high-brightness Lightning™ organic light emitting diodes (OLED) microdisplays including new 720p resolution (1280 x 720) for mobile entertainment. Kopin’s Lightning 720p OLED microdisplay in a 0.49-inch diagonal size exhibits high brightness at more than 1000 nits and has low power consumption. With good progress in partnerships with Olightek and BOE for mass production of OLED displays, Kopin is readying itself to lead high-volume OLED on Si display markets. 2018 CES Innovation Award Honoree – The Elf VR reference design is the world’s most compact and lightweight virtual reality headset that boasts stereo 4K resolution at 120Hz refresh rate. Elf is made possible by Kopin’s Lightning™ OLED microdisplays that boast an impressive pixel density of 2,940 PPI – approximately 400% higher than conventional TFT-LCD, OLED and AMOLED displays at 20% of the size. These display capabilities enables Elf VR reference design to eliminate the barriers and limitations that have long stood in the way of delivering an effective VR experience – uncomfortably bulky and heavy headset designs, the annoying pixelated “screen-door effect” due to insufficient display resolution, and frame rates that are too slow for fast action games, movies or sports.