Head-mounted display device with protective visor

A visor assembly for a head-mounted display device, the visor assembly comprising:

• a plurality of display elements arranged to be aligned with the eyes of a user when the head-mounted display device is worn by the user;
• a plurality of sensors;
• and
• a protective enclosure enclosing the display elements and the sensors, the enclosure including an upper portion aligned with the sensors and a lower portion aligned with the display elements, the upper portion being substantially opaque to visible light, the lower portion having a non-uniform tinting scheme in which at least some of the lower portion of the enclosure is transparent to visible light.

A display device comprising:

• a head fitting by which the display device can be worn on the head of a user;
• a chassis coupled to the head fitting;
• a display assembly mounted to the chassis and including a plurality of waveguides arranged to project light into the eyes of the user when the display device is worn by the user, the waveguides being transparent to visible light;
• a sensor assembly mounted to the chassis, the sensor assembly including an infrared camera and a plurality of visible-spectrum cameras;
• and
• a protective enclosure coupled to the chassis and enclosing the display assembly and the sensor assembly, the enclosure including an upper portion vertically aligned with the sensor assembly and a lower portion vertically aligned with the plurality of waveguides, the upper portion having a substantially uniform tinting scheme such that the upper portion is substantially opaque to visible light and transparent to infrared light, the first tinting scheme having a plurality of windows defined therein that are transparent to visible light, each of the windows aligned with at least one of the visible-spectrum cameras, the lower portion having a vertically graded tinting scheme such that a degree of transparency to visible light of the lower portion increases from top to bottom of the lower portion of the enclosure, such that at least some of the lower portion is transparent to visible light.