Mixed Reality Headset, 2016
Tools are means upon which biological limitations may be overcome. For the MIT ProjX fair, James Li and I proposed Project Argus, a headset which can provides individuals with enhanced and augmented vision. We were given $500 in funding for this project.
Two systems were designed for unique use cases. Argus Heavy is a full-head helmet which provides night vision, zoom vision, wide angle, and macro modes. Argus Lite provides night and zoom vision to one eye in a more mobile package, with optics aligned such that both still aligned.
A live video feed is fed through a Raspberry Pi to LED screens within the device, seen through a convex lens. The units are battery-powered for up to ~6 hours of continuous run-time. The headsets were designed in Solidworks, and the final iteration was 3D printed and ran on Python scripts loaded to the Raspberry Pi.
