They may have different functions depending on their location. For example, they can be placed on the windshield of a car, on the windows of an apartment building, an office building, a store or a factory.

How does it work

The technology is based on the creation of a polymer film penetrated by light-transmitting elements with external control. HE Maintains 92% glass transparency but also adds lighting control featuresprojection, filtering and detection.

This makes it possible to implement various useful options, but Zeiss does not plan to do this. They want to release A platform for other companies to build their own business applications and functions. So the technology manufacturer will act like Google in the world of smartphones: the company created the Android operating system, and third-party developers released their applications for it.

Here are just a few possible application options:

• Imagine a home with large panoramic windows that display useful information about upcoming weather conditions, city traffic, news, helpful notifications, reminders, to-do lists and more.
• Or (to avoid crowding) a store that displays dynamic information on the door about opening times, breaks and the number of customers inside.
• Judging by the renderings, this type of glass can also be used as a screen; Not only simple icons are projected on it, but also full-fledged images of the desktop, programs, video calls, movies and everything else that you watch on your regular screens.

Technology application example / Zeiss photo

Technology application example / Zeiss photo

• Or a car that projects a map directly onto its windshield with instructions for the route and nearby points of interest, and you don’t have to be constantly distracted by the smartphone below. Combined with a camera that can analyze the space in front, this enables full-fledged augmented reality where markers clearly map objects, locations, and rotations.

Technology application example / Zeiss photo

Technology application example / Zeiss photo

• In addition to all of the above, Zeiss Smart Glass allows you to create fake holographic images.
• With this technology glass can also dynamically change the transparency of windows in response to changes in ambient light For the user’s eye comfort indoors or in the car.

Application options are really limited only by the user’s imagination. as desired surfaces can be made sensitive to touchalbeit with some limitations.

Sensors to collect information about the state of the environment or even a solar energy harvesting system to transmit it to other devices can be embedded within the polymer film.

The price of such a film is still unknown.