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Lumus is a company that makes optical engines and waveguides for near-eye displays. Its focus has been on AR glasses and headsets. It is based in Israel. Its CEO is Ari Grobman.

File:Lumus logo.png

Lumus' waveguides are in some products, such as Thirdeye's X2 MR Glasses, Lenovo's ThinkReality A6, Thales' Scorpion full-color head mounted display, Augmedics xVision system, and MediThinQ's medical devices.[1]

Lumus technology was used by Meta for the Meta Pro headset.[2][3]

Lumus supplied Thales Avionics PD-14 optical engines for the Scorpion helmet platform to military.[4]

History

Lumus was founded by Yaakov Amitai.[2]

Technology

Lumus markets "reflective waveguides".[5]

Lumus works with Quanta.[5] Lumus provided Quanta license to produce Lumus optical engines.[5]

Lumus worked with Schott on a 2D pupil expanding reflective waveguide.[6]

Products

Patents

References

  1. "Lumus and AddOptics Partner to Directly Bond Waveguides with Prescription Lenses, Crossing a New Threshold in Augmented Reality Performance". 2024-06-18. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumus-and-addoptics-partner-to-directly-bond-waveguides-with-prescription-lenses-crossing-a-new-threshold-in-augmented-reality-performance-302175254.html.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Lumus DK-40". 2015-07-28. https://www.hcenat.zcu.cz/wiki/index.php/Lumus_DK-40#cite_note-ref2-5.
  3. Boxall, Andy (2014-03-10). "Lumus Optical adds military-spec tech to consumer smart glasses". https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/lumus-optical-adds-military-spec-tech-to-consumer-smart-glasses/#/3.
  4. "Lumus, a leading manufacturer of AR glasses". https://pronetkrakow.com.pl/en/content/234-lumus-a-leading-manufacturer-of-ar-glasses.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Lumus Manufacturing Partnerships". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3A47DavUPM.
  6. "SCHOTT Presentation of Lumus 2D Reflective Waveguide Mass Manufacturability". 2024-03-06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHq7sf3HYA.
  7. "DK-51 Flyer". https://lumusvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DK-51-Flyer.pdf.
  8. "TD-2020". 2023-11-06. https://lumusvision.com/products/pd14/.
  9. "PD14" (in en-US). https://web.archive.org/web/20170108120332if_/http://lumusvision.com:80/products/pd14/.
  10. "Lumus Announce Z-30 Optical Engine". 2025-01-28. https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/lumus-announces-z-optical-engine-to-address-near-term-market-of-augmented-reality-ar-glasses-0001.
  11. "Optical aperture expansion arrangement for near-eye displays". 2018-11-21. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11092810B2/.
  12. "Head-mounted augmented reality device employing an optical bench". 2023-04-30. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11966062B2/en.
  13. "Distributed head-mounted display system". 2008-06-01. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8405573B2/en.
  14. "Light-Guide Optical Element Employing Polarized Internal Reflectors". 2022-08-08. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220373810A1/en.
  15. "Light-Guide Display with Reflector". 2019-11-10. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220004001A1/en.
  16. "Light guide optical assembly". 2023-07-11. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230350121A1/en.
  17. "Aperture Multiplier with Depolarizer". 2022-07-04. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220334391A1/.
  18. "Optical systems including light-guide optical elements with two-dimensional expansion". 2023-06-28. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11934002B2/en.
  19. "Augmented reality display". 2018-09-23. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11513352B2/en.
  20. "Light-guide optical element with multiple-axis internal aperture expansion". 2022-06-15. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11994705B2/en.