Microvision Gets Secret $8.5m Order For New PicoP Laser Projection Display Engine

The folks over at Microvision should be in rather good spirits, as the company has just received an $8.5 million purchase order for its PicoP laser pico-projector modules. There wasn’t any mention of who this OEM was, but the plan is to use the engine in a high-end mobile media player, which will be released nearer the end of 2010. What do you think these could be used for? A new laptop, iPod, or Zune? Microvision’s PicoP engine is based on Laser-Bream-Steering and can offer a focus-free image with WVGA resolutions. Hopefully this giant purchase won’t result is just a bunch of boring pico projectors that we wouldn’t want to purchase.

Press release.