Virtual image display apparatus and optical unit

A direct-virtual-image-type virtual image display apparatus comprising:

• a display element configured to output image light;
• a first lens that the image light from the display element enters;
• a first prism that the image light passing through the first lens enters;
• a second prism bonded to the first prism to constitute a plane-parallel-plate-shaped prism-based light guide member;
• an inclining mirror portion provided at a location where the first prism and the second prism are bonded to each other and configured to reflect at least part of the image light guided in the first prism;
• a planoconvex second lens disposed so as to face a first outer surface of the first prism that is a surface on which the image light reflected off the inclining mirror portion is incident;
• and
• a transmissive mirror formed on a convex surface of the second lens and configured to partially reflect toward the inclining mirror portion the image light reflected off the inclining mirror portion,
• wherein the second prism includes a polarized light absorbing member at a surface excluding a second outer surface facing an outside.