The Vaunt AR Story

Developed as Intel's "Superlite" project, its purpose is to discreetly give you helpful information while being as comfortable and stylish to wear as regular glasses.  Notifications without taking your phone out of your pocket.  Turn-by-turn navigation without taking your eyes off of the road.  No camera to add weight and drain the battery.  The optical engine houses a triple-beam VCSEL that reflects off of the lens HOE within a 400 x 150 pixel eye box, focusing an image just below the user's pupil, so with a simple and slight downward glance they can see the information in their periphery.

We worked within the New Devices Group on the industrial design team, providing support for the Lead Designer, CAD modeling, prototyping, and creating new designs for future expansion of the Vaunt product line.

[Design]  Working as a support team for the Lead Designer, we were laser-focused on the details.  Electrical package footprint, nose pad arms, branding/decoration, ear pads, hinge cut line; all components were considered with care.  The slenderness of the temple allows for a broad range of flexibility and surface contact, the result of which maximizes comfort and stability.  We also collaborated to create original designs that would expand the scope of marketability.

[CAD]  Working directly with the Lead Designer and the engineering team, 3D models were created in Rhino in a rapid-fire iterative process.  Electrical and mechanical component development was done in parallel to CAD frame development, so we stayed light on our feet and adapted aesthetics to ongoing physical demands.  The industrialized model was developed in Creo, with parametric modeling being ideal for package adjustments.

[Prototyping]  3D prints were utilized after every major iteration to ensure design intent, fit, and physical package requirements were maintained.