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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…
With all the buzz surrounding Magic Leap and this blog’s technical findings about Magic Leap, I was asked to do an interview by the “Everything VR & AR Podcast” hosted by Kevin Harvell. The podcast is available on iTunes and by direct…
Introduction With all the hype about Hololens and Magic Leap (ML), Osterhout Design Group (ODG) often gets overlooked. ODG has not spent as much (but still spending 10’s of millions). ODG has many more years working in field albeit primarily in…
Lazy Reporting – The Marketing Hyperbole’s Friend While I have not ODG’s R-9 in person yet, I fully expect that it will look a lot better than Microsoft’s Hololens. I even think it will look better in terms of image…
Kopin Making OLED Microdisplays Kopin announced today that they are getting into the OLED Microdisplay business. This is particularly notable because Kopin has been a long time (since 1999) manufacture of transmissive LCD microdisplays used in camera viewfinders and near…
LCOS Used In Hololens and Likely Magic Leap It is well known that Microsoft’s Hololens uses two Himax manufactured Field Sequential Color (FSC) LCOS microdisplays. Additionally there are reports, particularly from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo as reported in Business…
I have had a number of people ask if I was going to CES 2017 in Las Vega and we could meet. I’m going to be at the show from January 5th through the 8th. If you would like to…
What Magic Leap Appears to be Doing For this article I would like to dive down on the most likely display and optics Magic Leap (ML) is developing for their their Product Equivalent (PEQ). The PEQ was discussed in the…
Real World AR Today I would like to forget about all the hype and glamor near eye products to have fun in a virtual world. Instead I’m going to talk a near eye device aimed at helping people to see…
Introduction I have gotten a lot of questions as to how I could be so sure that Magic Leap (ML) was using Micro-OLEDs in all their “Through Magic Leap Technology” and not say a scanning fiber display as so many…