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Technology Stocks : Kopin Corp. (KOPN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John J. Riley who wrote (779)	7/27/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: John J. Riley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1820

Kopin involved with Holoplex and Sony on games... From Yahoo: games by: kopnfan 1952 of 1958 holoplex.com the News >Optical gesture recognition system puts sweat on the brow of video game players Developers at Holoplex Corp. (Pasadena, CA) and Sony Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have developed an optical processing system that recognizes gestures and reproduces them in a video-game playstation—players act out movements similar to those conventionally input by the game joystick. Demonstrated at SigGraph'97 (Los Angeles, CA) in August, the system converts gestures— punches, kicks, squats, jumps, and moving forward and backward—into the equivalent movements of a character in the fighting game “Battle Arena Tohshinden” on a Sony computer Entertainment Playstation. A broadside video camera records player motion, and each video snapshot of the motion is displayed on a Kopin(Taunton, MA) CyberDisplay 0.24-in.-diagonal transmissive active-matrix liquid-crystal display—one for each player. a 690-nm, 20-mW diode laser projects that image onto a holographic optical element: the diffracted laser light is then detected by an array of detectors. The intensities that each detector receives are processed by a 266-MHz Pentium computer that determines which of the preprogrammed gestures was used, if any, at 30 frames per second and tells the playstation how to move the character. The companies are working with several video-game designers and vendors and are hoping to install the optical processing video-game system in entertainment centers, amusement parks, and arcades.<

To: John J. Riley who wrote (779)	7/28/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: kinkblot	Respond to of 1820

1/0 = infinite. WOW! Shares outstanding: Weighted average number of common shares outstanding - Basic July 03, 1999 - 12,436,394 +2.3% June 27, 1998 - 12,158,768 Weighted average number of common shares outstanding - Diluted July 03, 1999 - 13,149,608 June 27, 1998 - 12,158,768 From their most recent 10-Q \| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements: "Basic net income (loss) per share is computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and common share equivalents outstanding during the period using the treasury method. Common share equivalents have not been included in any periods in which the effect would be anti-dilutive." Now that Kopin is profitable, it's easier to see how many options are floating around out there. The increase in Diluted shares outstanding reflects mainly the reporting convention above, if I read this correctly. The numbers don't look out of line to me. WT