I have been wanting to get this article out for some time but have been very busy with some personal matters and catching up from a lot of traveling. To get this article out ahead of the likely Hololens 2…
North’s Focals LBS AR Glasses Overview North (formerly Thalmic Labs) announced a few days ago (Oct 23, 2018) the “Focals” laser beam scanning-based AR glasses (aside: a set of confusing names). The best article I saw on the “Focals” was from…
Reintroducing a 5 Year Old Design? Microvision, the 23 year old “startup” in Laser Beam Scanning (LBS), has been a fun topic on this blog since 2011. They are a classic example of a company that tries to make big…
I apologize for being away for so long. The pictures above and below were taken over a year ago and I meant to format and publish them back then but some other business and life events got in the way. The…
On the left are a series of power measurements I made on the Celluon PicoPro projector with an optical engine designed by Sony using a Microvision scanning mirror. The power was calculated based on the voltage and current from current coming from…
The Celluon PicoPro projector has been out for a few months now for about $359. I have read a number of so-called “reviews” that were very superficial and did little more than turn on the projector and run a few…
[Updated Feb. 18, 2018. A reader provided additional information about the Haier/ASU-Tech watch. According to a set of Tweets linked here, the Haier laser watch uses a Bosch BML050 dual mirror laser projector engine. That engine only claims to be…
At Lenovo at their Tech World on May 27th 2015 showed a Laser Beam Scanning (LBS) projector integrated into a cell phone prototype (to be clear, a prototype and not a product). White there has been no announcement of the maker of the…
June 6th 2015 – Note, I am in the process of updating this analysis with new photos. The results are not dramatically different but I was able to improve the horizontal resolution slightly and now have some better pictures. …
I got asked a series of questions by reader “me_wwwing” after the article Laser with LCOS is Focus Free — Yes Really! that I am answering in this post because I thought they would be of general interest. I did have…