MicroOptical About Us - Mission and Vision

The MicroOptical Corporation is a privately held company based in Westwood, Massachusetts. Its patented and proprietary technology is revolutionizing the world of portable eyewear viewers.

MicroOptical's portable viewers take the output signal from ordinary electronic devices and project images through proprietary technology. Comfortable and compact, they represent a breakthrough in ergonomics over conventional head-mounted display technology and offer a hands-free, head-up way to view portable industrial devices such as: oscilloscopes, flaw detectors, IR cameras, endoscopes, and consumer devices such as PDAs and wearable computers.

The MicroOptical Corporation's viewers have applications in the test and measurement, wearable computing, security, law enforcement, military, consumer electronics, medical, and video production industry. MicroOptical also has a strategic alliance with worldwide ophthalmic leader, Essilor International, to deliver images through true ophthalmic eyewear devices.

Frost and Sullivan, world-renowned marketing research and analyst organization, awarded The MicroOptical Corporation the Technical Insights’ Product Leadership of the Year Award in the field of electronic eyewear for 2003. This award is bestowed on the company that has best demonstrated a superior ability to develop and advance innovative products compared with products from competitors. The company was recognized for its successful invention of new technology initiated within the past year, its product development strategies and the high degree its product and technology have satisfied customer needs and requirements.

The company has received other awards from the Society of Information Display, Popular Science and Test & Measurement World. MicroOptical received recognition as Fast Company's "Fast Fifty" and a "Best in Test"Award from Test & Measurement Magazine.