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Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam
Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), only they left out the phone’s flat panel display and have more feeble processing than a good smartphone. Rational people wonder what this…
Apple Vision Pro Part 6 – Passthrough Mixed Reality (PtMR) Problems
Introduction I planned to wrap up my first pass coverage of the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) with my summary and conclusions based on prior articles. But the more I thought about it, Apple’s approach to Passthrough Mixed Reality (PtMR) seems like it will be so egregiously bad that it should be broken out and discussed…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 5C) – More on Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous
Introduction In this series about the Apple Vision Pro, this sub-series on Monitor Replacement and Business/Text applications started with Part 5A, which discussed scaling, text grid fitting, and binocular overlap issues. Part 5B starts by documenting some of Apple’s claims that the AVP would be good for business and text applications. It then discusses the…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 5B) – More on Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous.
Introduction – Now Three Parts 5A-C I want to address feedback in the comments and on LinkedIn from Part 5A about whether Apple claimed the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) was supposed to be a monitor replacement for office/text applications. Another theory/comment from more than one person is that Apple is hiding the good “spatial computing”…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 5A) – Why Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous
Introduction As I wrote in Apple Vision Pro (Part 1) regarding the media coverage of the Apple Vision Pro, “Unfortunately, I saw very little technical analysis and very few with deep knowledge of the issues of virtual and augmented reality. At least they didn’t mention what seemed to me to be obvious issues and questions.”…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 4) – Hypervision Pancake Optics Analysis
Introduction Hypervision, a company making a name for itself by developing very wide field of view VR pancake optics, just released a short article analyzing the Apple Vision Pro’s pancake on their website titled, First Insights about Apple Vision Pro Optics. I found the article very interesting from a company that designs pancake optics. I…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 3) – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies On a Plane
Introduction Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) primarily covered the hardware. Over the next several articles, I plan to discuss the applications Apple (and others) suggest for AVP. I will try to show the issues with human factors and provide data where possible. I started working in…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 2) – Hardware Issues
Introduction This part will primarily cover the hardware and related human physical and visual issues with the Apple Vision Pro (AVP). In Part 3, I intend to discuss my issues with the applications Apple has shown for the AVP. In many cases, I won’t be able to say that the AVP will definitely cause problems…
Apple Vision Pro (Part 1) – What Apple Got Right Compared to The Meta Quest Pro
Update June 14, 2023 PM: It turns out that Apple’s news release states, “This technological breakthrough, combined with custom catadioptric lenses that enable incredible sharpness and clarity . . . ” Catadioptric means a combination of refractive and reflective optical elements. This means that they are not “purely refractive” as I first guessed (wrongly). They…
Slides From Presentation at AWE 2023 on Optical versus Passthrough MR
At AWE 2023, I gave a 25 minute presentation on the topic of Optical Mixed Reality (MR) versus Passthrough MR. I received many requests for a copy of the presentation. I had enough information on the 38 slides for a 2 hour presentation on the topic so I had to go through them rather quickly…
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