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Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 3): Soft Edge Occlusion, a Solution for Investors and Not Users

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 28, 2021
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 22, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 13, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Use Model

Amazon Glow – Fake Images and a Questionable Concept

Introduction – “Kickstarter Quality Fakes” and a Bad Concept Last week Amazon announced several (not so) new concepts. My attention was grabbed by all the fake images associated with the Amazon Glow. The Glow incorporates a small “down projector” (projects…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Use Model

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 7, 2021
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • May 24, 2021
  • 43 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • May 21, 2021
  • 13 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Conferences, Micro-LED, Use Model

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 30, 2021
  • 5 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Technology History, Use Model

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,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 23, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 5: Poor Intensity Control)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 1, 2020
  • 12 Comments
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