Kopin Receives $2M Show Order Alongside Debut of New HUDs

January 16, 2025 – Kopin Corporation, a supplier of application-specific optical programs and high-performance microdisplays for protection, coaching, enterprise, industrial, shopper and medical merchandise, has this week introduced that it has been awarded a USD $2 million follow-on manufacturing order for its Brillian Lively Matrix Liquid Crystal Show (AMLCD) microdisplay for rotary and fixed-wing pilot helmet mounted shows (HMDs).

Kopin’s full coloration Brillian show is utilized in pilot HMD programs to offer enhanced situational consciousness in each day and night time flight situations, in accordance with the corporate. By means of particular design and processing strategies, the patented Brillian microdisplays are capable of present for purposes that demand distinctive excessive brightness. Kopin famous that its full-color Brillian shows exhibit brightness ranges larger than 34,000 nits and distinction ratios above 500:1. 

In consequence, the corporate’s full-color Brillian shows supply pilots enhanced visible recognition of crucial information and knowledge wanted to finish missions. Kopin added that the superior, see-through, high-definition, digital HMDs are used on quite a lot of fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms together with F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 fighter jets and CH47F and UH-60 helicopters.

“The follow-on buy order is a part of an ongoing multi-year program effort and highlights Kopin’s success in producing extremely complicated microdisplays for mission-critical purposes,” acknowledged Invoice Maffucci, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Improvement and Technique at Kopin. “Our shows and utility particular eyepieces are utilized in a variety of demanding purposes together with pilot helmets, armored car concentrating on programs, and soldier centric thermal weapon programs.”

Along with asserting the USD $2 million follow-on order this week, Kopin additionally introduced that the DayVAS (Daytime Visible Augmentation System) and DarkWAVE options that it developed in collaboration with Wilcox Industries will likely be demonstrated for the primary time publicly at SHOT Show 2025 in Las Vegas later this month.

DayVAS is a daytime readable see-through heads-up show (HUD) module and is used with Wilcox’ FUSION CLAW head borne info system — a complicated modular know-how platform that seamlessly integrates night time imaginative and prescient, communications gear, multi-spectral identification friend-or-foe, AI-informed energy prioritization, multi-spectral ahead illumination, mission recording, and a Day/Night time Heads-Up Show.

DarkWave is designed to interchange monochrome inexperienced solely augmented actuality (AR) symbology and low decision thermal overlay photographs in night time imaginative and prescient goggles with full coloration symbology at a better decision than at present accessible clip-on thermal imagers.

Kopin famous that its “pivotal” position in DayVAS and DarkWAVE entails the event and manufacturing of look-through blended actuality (MR) equipment, which assist to reinforce warfighter situational consciousness with state-of-the-art Day and Night time HUDs. With geospatial AR software program integration, customers even have the potential to pick menu objects at a look, watch drone feeds, navigation cueing and talk by way of textual content over an actual world scene.

For extra details about Kopin and its heads up show know-how, please go to the corporate’s website.

Picture credit score: Kopin Company / Wilcox Industries