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Just a quick, but timely note today. I was asked by iFixit to help them identify the optical components for their Magic Leap One (ML1) teardown published today. The picture above is from iFixit but with my labeling. It turns out…
At Recode’s Code Media conference on Feb. 13, 2018 (a few hours ago as I write this), they live streamed an interview with Ronny Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap and NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The interview included a prerecorded video with Shaquille…
Intro to “The Big FSD Con” Of all the things Magic Leap has done, I consider Fiber Scanning Displays (FSD) to the “The Big Con”. The reason why is that Magic Leap made such a big deal about it being…
A Snapshot Into Magic Leap Circa July 2013 I was working through some Magic Leap history I have collected and comparing it to the Magic Leap One shown in the Rolling Stone Article. In my collection, I had a 197…
Magic Leap 2 Presentation Was the Hit of the Conference Kevin Curtis (Curtis), Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, presentation “Unveiling Magic Leap 2’s Advanced AR Platform and Revolutionary Optics” at the SPIE AR/VR/MR conference created the most buzz of…
Introduction – Surprise Finding on Meta Cambria I just discovered something I have not seen reported anywhere else about what might be in Meta’s (aka Facebook) next-generation VR headset Cambria discussed last month’s Meta Connect 2021 video. While writing…
Introduction It was nice to get out and actually look through AR and VR displays at AWE 2021. I started to write about everything I saw at AWE, but to me Tilt-5 was such a standout that I decided to…
Introduction In my last article, Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications, I wrote that I had found so far four patent applications by Magic Leap discussing pixelated dimming; 20210141229 (‘229), US20210048676 (‘676), (US20210003872 (‘872), and US20200074724 (‘724). As…
Introduction – “Surely, they were not so desperate” — but they appear to be! This article is a follow-up to the last article, Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M. When I first saw that Magic Leap was…
Introduction This blog has covered Magic Leap for nearly five years. I correctly predicted the key display capability of Magic Leap 1 three years before it was formally announced (See 2016 “best fit” and the iFixit Teardown I helped analyze…
New Interview The AR Show Podcast just published a podcast interview with me: Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on the Attack of the Clones and Magic Leap’s Wasted Opportunity (Part 1). The interview is going to be broken into 3 parts (ok,…
Introduction – Following Up on Color Control As I noted in Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 3: Color Uniformity), one the first things when I first tried a Hololens 2 (HL2) was that colors were washed out (see below). The color…
Introduction I apologize for being so long between blog entries. I had a bunch of travel, followed by being sick for the a long time. With a mountain of things I wanted to discuss, I had a bit of a…
Intro: $2.6 Billion Was Just Not Enough for Magic Leap and Series-E Marketing Tour I have received more information from multiple sources as a result of my story, All Magic Leap Patents Have Apparently Been Assigned To J.P. Chase Morgan…
