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Augmented Reality eye piece for microscopes, good idea?
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riyadh144:
Hi,
So I have been doing some research lately about an AR eye piece, it will mainly be a transparent lens which will display either measurements or overlay an image on top of the optics.

For example an oscilloscope display, a multi-meter measurement, a reference image(Bacteria, reference board, etc..), I can think of hundreds or reasons.

Is there a market of that and if so how can I conduct a market study before I spend too much resources on this.
DTJ:
Search "microscope HUD" there seems to be quite a few hits. I imagine biological sciences have the bulk of the applications.
riyadh144:
That is exactly what I wanted to make but someone did it before, I guess I am late to the market.
DTJ:
It's a big world.

It doesn't mean all applications have been exploited.

Ages ago someone posted (here?) a HUD addition to safety glasses or spectacles for a DMM. Might have been bluetooth. See if you can find it, it was an interesting project.
LaserSteve:
On modern microscopes we put everything up on a big monitor and pretty much use the eyepiece only  for initial focusing.  Pretty much only diehards, metals testing, and field operations folks use the eyepieces once dialed in. I'm not sure there is a market.

The reason the eyepieces are still there is autofocus for the incredibly short depth of field nearly always places the focal plane on the wrong part of a sample.

Steve
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