September 19th, 2020 Pardon our dust, the blog is currently being updated — There may be a few glitches for a few days
DigiLens Visit
Introduction Last week I was in San Jose for a quick trip, and it so happened that as I was about to leave, Digilens invited me to see their latest developments. I found several different aspects interesting, including their brightness, efficiency, modularity, manufacturing, and plans for plastic waveguides later this year. Under New Management DigiLens…
Nreal Teardown: Part 3, Pictures Through the Lens
Introduction Part 1 and part 2 of this Nreal Teardown series discussed what was happening inside the Nreal AR headset. In part 3, we are going to look at the photographs taken through Nreals’ optics. I shot all pictures against a dark background in dim lighting to see the display and optics characteristics. The camera…
Nreal Teardown: Part 2, Detailed Look Inside
Introduction Following up on Part 1 of the Nreal SDK and LG product teardown, in this part I’m going to show a lot of pictures of the internal components. In some cases, I’m literally going to peel the optics apart layer by layer. I’m going to start by showing the various components inside the Nreal.…
Nreal Teardown: Part 1, Clones and Birdbath Basics
Introduction I had the opportunity to do a teardown of both a Nreal development kit and the Nreal LG product sold in Korea. I completed the Nreal teardown before I got to see Lumus’s Maximus that I reported on last time. The Maximus size, brightness, efficiency, and image quality were spectacular; I decided to report…
Exclusive: Lumus Maximus 2K x 2K Per Eye, >3000 Nits, 50° FOV with Through-the-Optics Pictures
Introduction Ari Grobman, CEO, and Aviv Frommer, Executive VP R&D of Lumus, stopped by on their way to see several companies in the U.S. with their latest Lumus Maximus prototype (hereafter Maximus). And better yet, they said I could take high-resolution pictures through the lens. The Lumus Maximus prototype has impressive overall image quality, including…
Exclusive: Snap Spectacles Appears to Be Using WaveOptics and [an LCOS] a DLP Display
Update – Snap buys WaveOptics for over $500M About an hour or so after this article first when up, reports came out that Snap had bought WaveOptics for over $500M. I had no knowledge that this deal was happening. I was analyzing what I saw from the publicly available sources discussed in the article. I…
AR Show Interview of Karl Guttag (Part 2) – Mapping AR Displays to Suitable Optics
Just a Quick Note on Part 2 of the Interview The AR Show with host Jason McDowall has published part 2 of a 3 part interview with me on AR. The podcast can be listed to on The AR Show Website or wherever you listen to podcasts. You should note that this show was recorded…
The AR Show: Karl Guttag On The Attack of the Clones and Magic Leap’s Wasted Opportunity (part1)
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, I ramble a bit) as I understand it and Part One alone is 1 hour…
GameStop, “Hold My Beer,” says Augmented Reality Companies
Introduction and Disclaimers I want to be clear that I am not a stock analyst or expert, and nothing in this article is meant to constitute stock advice. I currently hold stock in Microvision (laser scanning microdisplays) and eMagin (OLED microdisplays), which are discussed in this article (more on that later). I hold positions in…
Mira – From <$20 Fishbowl To New Mario Kart Ride at Universal Japan (In About 4 years)
Introduction Today want to congratulate Mira Reality, a little over 4-year-old startup. Mira has seen their AR headset designed into a major theme park attraction at Universal Studios Japan. The theme park opened Nintendo World on Feb 4th, 2021, with a Mario Kart dark ride that uses Mira’s AR Headset to mix virtual images with…
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