Taiwan-based Lipro Vision is soon launching new AR glasses aimed towards outdoor athletes, based on a monochrome green microLED display engine.

Lipro Vision’s CEO, a triathlete himself, and a formed ITRI researcher, says that the new glasses address the needs of outdoor athletes – with a long battery life (over 10 hours) and high brightness (over 4,000 nits). Lipro developed its own optical engine which it calls Metalens, that combines a metalens array on top of a microLED display.

The display is placed right in front of the eyes, and not projected from t…