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Oceanic Heads Up Display
Scuba Mask (HUD)
San Leandro, CA - Oceanic
Worldwide, manufacturer of cutting-edge SCUBA equipment and technology,
announces that its HUD (Heads-Up Display) Mask has received the annual "Best
of What's New" award in the Recreation category from Popular Science
magazine. Popular Science editors reviewed thousands of new products and
innovations and chose just 100 winners in 10 categories for inclusion in the
December "Best of What's New" issue. To win, a product or technology must
represent a significant step forward in its category.
The HUD project was conducted under a joint-development project with the
U.S. Navy's Coastal Systems Station (CSS) - Panama City, Florida. The HUD
contains a miniature liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, multi-element
optics, microprocessor, depth transducer, wireless cylinder pressure
receiver, diver replaceable battery, and controlling software - all built
directly into a dive mask. The miniature LCD displays the diver's depth,
bottom time, and cylinder pressure. The multi-element optical lens provides
a clear, highly magnified image of the LCD, which is viewable regardless of
environmental conditions.
Oceanic's wireless transmitter module attaches to the regulator first stage
and transmits the diver's cylinder pressure to the mask.
"We are extremely honored to receive such a prestigious recognition from the
renowned editors of Popular Science. This award confirms the results of our
consumer retail tests conducted this year, and further emphasizes Oceanic's
ability to revolutionize exploring the underwater world as we know it
today", said Robert Hollis, founder and CEO of Oceanic Worldwide. "To be a
leader, you have to look at new and innovative ways to develop the cutting
edge technology today's divers demand. By jointly developing new
technologies and electronic features with the US Navy, Oceanic is continuing
to build our position as the leader in the creation of new product
innovations that are used to strengthen the recreational scuba diving
industry."
While the HUD Mask will have immediate military applications, recreational
divers will also benefit from this jointly created technology as Oceanic
plans to release a consumer version next year. Oceanic engineers anticipate
the consumer version will feature all the information currently displayed in
Oceanic's line of innovative hand-held and wireless Personal Dive Computers.
This is not the first time Oceanic has teamed up with a government agency to
jointly develop technology that has resulted in new products for
recreational divers. Several years ago, Oceanic engineers were part of a
team working with NASA on wireless communications used in underwater
astronaut training. That technology resulted in the creation of Oceanic's
well-known DataTrans (wireless Personal Dive Computer), one of the first
such products released to the dive market.
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