HORUS is centered on a visual system engineered for extreme fidelity, latency minimisation, and perceptual stability. Each eye receives up to 6,000 horizontal pixels delivered through micro-OLED panels operating at 480 frames per second - an order-of-magnitude leap beyond conventional head-mounted displays.

Micro-OLED Panel Characteristics

• Pixel pitch in the low micrometer range, enabling sub-arcminute visual precision

• Near-zero persistence illumination at high refresh rates, reducing motion blur and vergence instability

• HDR luminance control for high-contrast environments

• Optical waveguides tuned to minimise chromatic aberration and pupil swim

The optical stack integrates aspherical hybrid lenses with software-driven distortion compensation, enabling a full MR field of view with uniform clarity. HORUS maintains photorealism not through graphic embellishment, but through physically plausible rendering pipelines, material-accurate shading, and time-synchronised exposure control based on eye-tracking telemetry.

Because the human perceptual system is highly sensitive to micro-latency in head-coupled displays, HORUS uses a closed-loop feedback cycle operating at sub-10-millisecond motion-to-photon latency. This allows for stable operation during high-acceleration movement in both ground-based and cockpit-integrated applications.

HORUS was designed to serve as a unified interface layer across LupoTek’s robotics, drone, and vehicle research programs, including the Lítillljós subsonic VTOL platform  . Instead of switching between discrete software tools or screens, HORUS allows operators to transition fluidly between task domains:

• Drone piloting using real-time 4K/120fps telemetry

• Environmental reconstruction, including atmospheric layers, turbulence profiles, and particulate mapping

• Companion-Intelligence overlays, highlighting anomalies, trajectories, or system-state predictions

• Autonomous-system supervision, where HORUS acts as a high-bandwidth oversight portal rather than a manual controller

The system ingests environmental and sensor data through multimodal fusion, combining infrared, optical, acoustic, inertial, and RF inputs into a spatially coherent MR layer. This allows operators to maintain wide-angle awareness even when local visibility or environmental stability is limited.

Because HORUS interacts with Companion-Intelligence through a closed, encrypted LupoTek architecture, CI can assist by providing real-time annotations, risk scoring, and contextual cueing without overriding human judgment. This maintains human-in-control principles while still leveraging computational scale.

HORUS is designed to integrate directly into next-generation pilot helmets as a lightweight, high-temperature-resistant, vibration-stable MR module. Its features reflect the stringent requirements of high-performance aircraft:

Integrated HUD Projection

Instead of relying on traditional HUD glass, HORUS projects airspeed, altitude, system health, navigation vectors, and situational cues directly onto the visor using collimated MR overlays. This reduces the need for head repositioning and supports eyes-forward operation.

360-Degree Situational Reconstruction

HORUS consumes inputs from distributed sensors - including infrared hemispherical arrays - to produce a “see-through” environment. Pilots can look downward, around structural elements, or beyond occluded geometry by referencing sensor-fused reconstructions.

This enables continuous awareness while maintaining the cockpit enclosure.

Digital Night-Vision Integration

Low-light and thermal channels are fused into the visual feed, providing full-spectrum visibility without separate NVG hardware. Because the pipeline is digital, HORUS can apply noise reduction, edge sharpening, and dynamic range correction.

Eyes-On Interaction

Through high-speed eye-tracking, the platform recognises gaze vectors to pre-select points of interest or interface elements. This is not a “lock-on” system; rather it enhances human-machine interaction by reducing menu navigation or hand control delays.

Custom Fit & Ergonomic Co-Mapping

Each HORUS unit is 3D-scanned, fitted, and calibrated to the user’s facial geometry, interpupillary distance, and head movement signatures - necessary to maintain distortion-free rendering under dynamic motion.

The HORUS data architecture is designed for high-bandwidth, multi-layered sensor fusion. In both ground and flight applications, it synthesises:

• radar inputs

• infrared and multispectral channels

• inertial datasets

• drone telemetry

• atmospheric data extraction

• optical flow

• Cohesive CI-generated predictive mapping

Using these datasets, HORUS produces a unified “cognitive map” to support decision-making. This is where the platform’s dual-use nature becomes clear: the same foundation that supports drone fleet oversight can also serve aviation situational enhancement, infrastructure inspection, emergency-response coordination, or environmental monitoring.

Data-Sharing Framework

HORUS supports distributed situational cognition: multiple operators or pilots can share certain visual layers or MR overlays, enabling collaborative awareness.

This is not an intelligence-sharing system; it is a perception-sharing layer designed to improve coordination between remote or cockpit operators.

CI Closed-Loop Learning

When connected to Companion-Intelligence, HORUS enables a feedback loop where operator behaviour informs predictive modelling.

CI does not command or control; instead it learns patterns such as:

• environmental anomalies operators focus on

• sub-optimal control sequences

• regions of interest that correlate with risk

• cognitive load inferred from eye-tracking, head motion, or control timing

This allows the system to adapt overlays, warnings, and environmental representations over time.

HORUS is constructed from lightweight composite structures, including carbon fibre, impact-resistant polymers, and internal Kevlar reinforcement. These materials mirror the resilience standards used in advanced cockpit systems without disclosing any restricted specifications. The mass distribution is tuned to minimise neck strain while supporting extended operation.

Thermal & Vibration Stability

The platform includes:

• passive and active cooling layers for micro-OLED thermal loads

• vibration-absorptive mounting to remain stable during high-frequency aircraft motion

• EMI-shielding to ensure data integrity near high-output avionics

Modularity & Field Reconfigurability

HORUS can be fitted as:

• a standalone MR headset for ground-based drone control,

• a supervisory interface for autonomous-system testing, or

• a cockpit-integrated module designed to function as a fused reality visor for high-performance aircraft.

Human-Centric Control Confidence

HORUS does not replace traditional controls - it augments them by improving clarity, reducing cognitive friction, and creating a perceptual environment where complex decisions can be made with higher precision and lower load.