Mr. Paul Travers reports

VUZIX ANNOUNCES NEW SEE-THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED VIDEO EYEWEAR

Vuzix Corp. has released its new STAR (see-through augmented reality) video eyewear. The STAR 1200 is see-through AR-enabled binocular video eyewear that is expected to be used in a wide variety of industrial, commercial, defence and some consumer applications. Building from Vuzix's award-winning technology in AR-enabled video eyewear, the new display will allow users to view the real-world scene while also viewing relevant computer-generated information, graphics and alerts. The AR glasses will provide connectivity to VGA, component and composite video sources. The STAR 1200 comes with six degrees of freedom motion tracking sensors and a built-in camera for tracking and recognizing the real world. This allows 3-D computer generated content to be locked in place when overlaid within the user's real-world view.

Vuzix will be demonstrating the new STAR 1200 at the Augmented Reality Event, in Santa Clara, Calif., at the Santa Clara Convention Center, booth No. 114, and also at the 2011 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), May 17 to 19 in Tampa, Fla., at the Tampa Convention Center, booth No. 1345.

The STAR is Vuzix's first see-through AR-enabled video eyewear model with a native 16:9 format that offers full-colour WVGA (852 by 480) support with built-in camera and sensors for AR tracking. The see-through displays provide a video viewing experience similar to a 60-inch flat panel television viewed from 10 feet. The STAR 1200 is the world's first high-resolution 16:9 widescreen video eyewear on the market today.

Paul J. Travers, chief executive officer, commented: "Building on Vuzix's advances in both its optics and tracking technology, we have been able to deliver affordable AR-enabled see-through head-mounted displays to the market sooner than we originally anticipated. This product is what we feel our customers have been waiting for and we expect them to be used for a wide variety of applications."

The STAR is expected to ship in August, 2011. The company is offering all advance-order customers the current Wrap 920AR video eyewear immediately for application development and testing purposes for no additional charge so customers can immediately begin using Vuzix's current software developer kit and 3-D AR creation tool, MaxReality, which is a plug-in for the Autodesk 3ds Max design software.

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