Microvision Show WX Projectors Add Green Lasers To Projectors

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Word out of Microvision is that the Show WX pico projector has added green to its pico projector, an achievement of some note in the pico projector industry.

The Show WX line features what’s called the Laser Display Engine, which looks to be a significant and growing part of electronics in general, and it’s done something interesting. What Microvision did was manage to integrate a green laser into their portable projector systems.  This may not sound like much, but previously, they were getting their color mixing by using a red laser, a blue laser, and a second red laser that was specifically retuned to produce green light. Now that they’re using an actual green laser in place of that red laser, they’ve made it easier to produce Show WX systems.

Make things easier to produce and you’ve likely dropped the price, as well as also offering the potential to shrink them down a bit and get them in other products.  manufacturing of smaller components. In fact, the folks out at Microvision know at least five different companies that are ready to supply Microvision with all the green lasers they can stand by the end of next year.

This in turn might well open up the flood gates to a wider use of pico projectors, especially in things like cell phones, portable media players and gaming systems, though it might well also result in a crippling shortage of empty wall space and a worldwide surplus of light bulbs as places like coffee shops start going dark so as to allow patrons to fire their projectors into every bit of available wall space to do their computing work on larger platforms.

I confess to owning a small projector myself–I hooked it to a DVD player and put it in my bedroom, which is incredibly entertaining (and space saving!) if a bit low resolution. The potential for something like this is huge.