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FSD, Waveguides, and Focus/Depth Planes – A Fatally Flawed Foundation While you can’t find what Magic Leap hypes as “photonic light field chip” anywhere in their patent application, they do discuss diffractive (mostly) waveguides. I have previously discussed some of…
Introduction It has been sometime since I wrote about Magic’s Leap’s technical activity. So I thought in light of the recent Rolling Stone reveal, it was time to discuss what Magic Leap is really doing and separating out the marketing…
Introduction I’m getting ready to write a much requested set of articles on the pro’s and con’s of various types of microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED in particular with some discussion of other display types). I feel as a prerequisites,…
Disney Announced Joint AR Development At D23 Disney at their D23 Fan Convention in Anaheim on July 15th, 2017 announced an Augmented Reality (AR) Headset jointly developed with Lenovo. Below is a crop and brightness enhanced still frame capture from…
Introduction The startup Varjo recently announced and did a large number of interviews with the technical press about their Foveated Display (FD) Technology. I’m going to break this article into multiple parts, as currently planned, the first part will discuss…
Technically Interesting New Papers At Siggraph 2017 Both Oculus (Facebook) and Microsoft’s are presenting interesting technical research papers at Siggraph 2017 (July 30th to August 3rd) that deal with Vergence/Accommodation (VAC). Both have web pages (Oculus link and Microsoft link)…
I get a lot of questions to the effect of “what is the best technology for a near eye display (NED).” There really is no “best” as every technology has its strengths and weaknesses. I plan to right a few…
Surprised at CES 2017 – Avegant Focus Planes (“Light Field”) While at CES 2017 I was invited to Avegant’s Suite and was expecting to see a new and improved and/or a lower cost version of the Avegant Glyph. The Glyph …
Why Birdbaths Optics? Because the Alternative (Waveguides) Must Be Worse (and a teaser) The idea for this article started when I was looking at the ODG R-9 optical design with OLED microdisplays. They combined an OLED microdisplay that is not…
Introduction First off, this post is a few weeks late. I got sick on returning from CES and then got busy with some other pressing activities. At left is a picture that caught me next to the Lumus Maximus demo…
