Myvu Personal Media Viewer refers to a product family of wearable

Head-mounted display

A head-mounted display or helmet mounted display, both abbreviated HMD, is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet, that has a small display optic in front of one or each eye .- Overview :...

 video display glasses released by Myvu Corporation.

Founded in 2001 as The MicroOptical Corporation. Company reported raising $11.5 million USD in 2006. Company reported raising $3.25 million USD in 2009. Company seems to be out of business in 2011. Main web site MyVu.com is not functional, redirecting to a Network Solutions advertisement webpage.

Myvu provided increased viewing usability

Usability

Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job...

 and portability

Portability

Portability may refer to:*Portability , the portability of social security benefits*Software portability, the portability of a piece of software to multiple platforms...

 for users.

Awards

• MyVu won a 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering award by the Consumer Electronics Association.
• iLounge named myvu’s Crystal 701 as a Best in Show Finalist at Macworld 2008.
• AmazingTechProducts Award.
• Retail Vision’s “Best New Technology Award" (2007).
• Always On selected MyVu Corporation as one of the AO 100 Top Private companies for 2007.
• iLounge named Myvu Made for iPod the “Best Wearable Display” for 2006.
• Myvu Corporation (under the MicroOptical name) was named one of 47 Technology Pioneers for 2007 by the World Economic Forum.

See also

• Display device
  Display device
  A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form...
  
  
• Comparison of display technology
  Comparison of display technology
  This is a comparison of various properties of different display technologies.- General characteristics :- Temporal characteristics :Different display technologies have vastly different temporal characteristics, leading to claimed perceptual differences for motion, flicker, etc.The figure shows a...
  
  
• Video monitor
  Video monitor
  A video monitor also called a broadcast monitor, broadcast reference monitor or just reference monitor, is a display device similar to a television set, used to monitor the output of a video-generating device, such as playout from a video server, IRD, video camera, VCR, or DVD player. It may or...
  
  
• Video card
  Video card
  A video card, Graphics Card, or Graphics adapter is an expansion card which generates output images to a display. Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors...