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By Noel Young, Correspondent

November 21, 2013 | 2 min read

A head-mounted display that takes away the idea of a screen and projects images directly on to each of your eyes , is reported today by Forbes magazine.

A Michigan startup Avegant plans to start shipping the device early next year.

They say this won’t damage our retinas because the light source is a very low-power LED. Also, its “Virtual Retina Display” uses reflected light, which the human eye is best suited to looking at for extended periods, rather than the emitted light we strain to see every day from the glowing screens of laptops and phones.

The gadget projects light through an array of two million “micro-mirrors” which then diffuse the reflected light onto the eyes, says Forbes.

Lenses for each can be individually adjusted for sharpness giving ultra-sharp images with vibrant colours.

Avegant visited the Forbes San Francisco office to demonstrate a prototype of their head mounted display. They played the first minutes of “The Life of Pi” and a PlayStation game.

Looking into each lens "is a bit like peering directly into a projector," says the reporter. " What you eventually see when the device is on properly (and it’s still bulky at this stage) is a small, rectangular display. "

“The impression is of peeking into a miniature cinema, through the projectionist’s window,” says Forbes. There isn’t a hint of pixelation. In fact, there are no pixels, according to Avegant’s CTO, Yobie Benjami. Only “blended light.”

“We’re sending in a blended image with no pixels, no monitors, no display,” he said. “Your retina is the screen.”

Benjamin says Avegant’s image is higher resolution than HD and gives the perception of an image at 720 pixels.

He couldn’t give Forbes a price , but said it would begin shipping in the first quarter of next year and would be able to display any film or console game, syncing with Macs, PCs and iPads.