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Wrapping up our last quarterly meeting for the year!
This final meeting of the year was an opportunity to close out 2025 and start preparing for 2026.View more
Second General Assembly in Mulhouse
Université de Haute Alsace hosted second General Assembly for POPULAR consortium, in Mulhouse, France, last January 2025.View more
POPULAR project is starting!
The POPULAR (PRESCRIPTION OPTICS PROVIDING A UNIVERSAL LENS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY EYEWEAR) project is launched since 1st January 2024.View more
Abstract
POPULAR aims at developing the first generic Augmented Reality Eyewear (ARE) platform covering the widest range of users and use cases, in professional context, leisure, or in daily life. The ordinary-looking glasses will provide visual, wearable, vestibular, and social comfort, making them suitable for all-day use, including personal ophthalmic correction. Major innovations are related to compactness and invisible technology, optical quality, ultra-low power consumption and long operation times, integrating cost-efficiency aspects as well.
SSH aspects will be considered in all stages of the project by using a dual approach with an interplay between Human Driven Design and multidisciplinary system engineering through iterative prototype testing.
POPULAR will develop all critical components, namely ultra-low power microdisplay with related optics and electronics, innovative Holographic Lens Mirror, as well as application software, and perform the integration into eyewear prototypes. Demonstration will be achieved by performing end-user tests with the prototypes in 3 realistic use case scenarios: outdoor sports, healthcare, and logistics.
The consortium is a unique combination of cross-functional experts, representing the entire value chain. It consists of 10 partners from 4 EU countries, including 4 RTO/ACA, 3 industrial companies of which 2 SMEs, and 3 use-case partners. In addition, an Advisory Board of stakeholders and ethics experts will guide the POPULAR consortium during the main steps of the project.
The innovation provided by the project provides a unique chance to the European industry becoming a leader in a growing market of ARE, building on its worldwide leadership in the Eyewear industry and its strong R&D and Innovation capabilities. Through the project demonstrations and the continuous support of the Advisory Board, guidelines covering user, design, market and societal requirements will be developed, supporting deployment in real scenarios.
Objectives
Global objective: Develop for the first time a generic ARE device that caters to the widest range of users, either in daily life or professional context, and provides a seamless AR experience with greater visual, wearable, vestibular and social comfort, thanks to unobtrusive, lightweight, ordinary-looking and made-to-order prescription glasses.
- Develop ultra-low power (< 8mW) and high-luminance (target is 10 000cd/m²) RGB colour OLED microdisplay devices, optimised for their integration with the holographic lens mirror of SO 2, and manufacturable on MODs existing OLED deposition line.
- Develop a high-performance holographic material and design and fabricate customizable holographic lens mirrors compatible with any type of corrective lenses (clear lens, sun or photochromic tint, myopic or hyperopic or progressive lenses), with, for the wearer, a comfortable vision of a contrasting virtual image adapted to his visual acuity, without disturbance of real-world vision or eye glow.
- Perform eyewear system integration with enhanced AR performance (1000 cd/m² RGB colour), reduced size (<8mW).
- Create societal acceptance and motivate stakeholders and users for adoption, reaching >80% of acceptance of potential users, including people with disabilities and older persons; 90% of user satisfaction.
- Demonstrate at TRL5 the short-term deployment potential and scalability of the proposed solutions/prototypes validated in realistic scenarios especially in healthcare, logistics and outdoor sports sectors.
partners
partners / contact
EssilorLuxottica
[ ESS ]
France
Mathieu Feuillade
Mathieu Feuillade
MICROOLED SA
[ MOD ]
France
Xavier BONJOUR
Xavier BONJOUR
INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA
[ IBV ]
Spain
Andrés SOLER
Andrés SOLER
UNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE UHA
[ UHA ]
France
Céline CROUTXE-BARGHORN
Céline CROUTXE-BARGHORN
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
[ UA ]
Spain
Andres MARQUEZ
Andres MARQUEZ
FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS MICROSYSTEMS
[ FIPMS ]
Germany
Bernd RICHTER
Bernd RICHTER
TECH 2 HEAL
[ T2H ]
France
Fabrice PAKIN
Fabrice PAKIN
FEDERATION FRANCAISE D'AVIRON
[ FFA ]
France
Christine GOSSE
Christine GOSSE
UNIVERSYTET MEDYCZNY W LODZI.
[ MUL ]
Poland
Aneta ANDRZEJCZYK
Aneta ANDRZEJCZYK
SAMODZIELNY PUBLICZNY ZAKLAD OPIEKI ZDROWOTNEJ CENTRALNY SZPITAL KLINICZNY UNIWERSYTETU MEDYCZNEGO W LODZI
[ CSK UM ]
Poland
Joanna BARDEN
Joanna BARDEN
COMERCIAL ORBEL SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
[ ORBEL ]
Spain
Rogelio Pardo
Rogelio Pardo
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No101135770 . This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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PROJECT GENERAL ASSEMBLY #2
The POPULAR project consortium held its second Project General Assembly (PGA 2) on January 13-14, 2025, at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse. During this meeting, partners reviewed the project’s progress, showcased demonstrations, and collaboratively outlined the next steps to achieve the project’s goals.
PROJECT GENERAL ASSEMBLY #1
The POPULAR project consortium held its first Project General Assembly from July 10-12 at the Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia, where partners discussed progress, shared demonstrations, and planned future steps for the project.
Kick-off meeting
The POPULAR project consortium has met for the first time to kick-off the project on January 30th at ESSILOR, project coordinator, in Créteil (Paris area). All partners presented their background and expected contributions for the project. On January 31st, for Day 2, the consortium were welcomed by the French Rowing Federation at Nogent-sur-Marne for last discussions and to start collaborate on a dedicated risks workshop led by Instituto de Biomecanica de Valencia.
publications
- “Holographic mirror-based approach in augmentedreality glasses” by A. Márquez, J.C. García-Vázquez, J.C. Bravo, J. Francés, C. Neipp, S. Gallego, M. Ortuño, M.G. Ramírez, I. Pascual, A. Beléndez (UA) - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029958
- “Augmented Reality Eyewear With OphthalmicCorrection for Mainstream Applications, Overcoming Acceptance Barriers ThroughHuman Factors Plan” by Jose Laparra Hernández, Adrian Morales Casas, Mathieu Feuillade, Xavier Bonjour, Armel Jimenez, Vanessa Jimenez, Luis Sánchez Palop, José Francisco Serrano Ortiz, José Manuel Rojas, Andrés Soler (IBV, ESS, MOD, UA) - 10.54941/ahfe1005068
- “Simulation tool for holographic-based augmentedreality eyewear” by A. Márquez, J.C. García-Vázquez, J.C. Bravo, J. Francés, C. Neipp, S. Gallego, S. Chakraborty, M. Ortuño, M.G. Ramírez, I. Pascual, A. Beléndez (UA) - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3042612
- “Smart Glasses and AugmentedReality to Support Healthcare” by Adrian Morales Casas, Clara Solves Camallonga, José Manuel Rojas, Vanessa Jimenez, Fabien Divo, Aneta Andrzejczyk(IBV, ESS, LODZ) - 10.54941/ahfe1006205
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