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Power consumption of light engines for emerging augmented reality glasses: perspectives and challenges

Yizhou Qian... Zhiyong Yang, Sung-Chun Chen, Yongziyan Ma, Yi-Chien Chen, Hsueh-Shih Chen, Chih-Lung Lin and Shin-Tson Wu* |Show fewer author(s)

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