Microvision’s Show WX Pico Projector display demonstrated at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is another entrant into the rapidly expanding pico projection market. Microvision see the Show WX as a milestone towards the product launch of their first PicoP enabled consumer product later in 2009.

Microvision have gone with laser technology for their projection engine as they are smaller and brighter than alternative light sources and can be directed or scanned with precision and can even be “pixel” sized.

Directing the light from the red,green and blue (RGB) lasers is a MEMS scanning mirror. Images are built up pixel by pixel by combining modulated RGB laser light sources. Intensity variation of the light sources generates a complete palette of colors and shades. The PicoP display engine includes the necessary electronics to acquire and process data source signals and to control and synchronize the color mix and placement of individual pixels.

The production version of SHOW WX is to be a plug-n-play pico projector for spontaneous, mobile viewing of TV, movies, photos and presentations. It will be pocket-sized and plug-n-play compatible with notebooks, netbooks, portable media players, mobile phones and other mobile media devices. It’s dead simple to use as the patented display engine technology requires no focus adjustment. Images will always in focus, from widescreen images as small as 6 inches (15.2 cm) to as large as 100 inches (254 cm) across.