I’m curious what people think will be the near eye microdisplay of the future. Each technology has its own drawbacks and advantages that are well known. I thought I would start by listing summarizing the various options: Color filter transmissive…
After posting my discovery of a Himax LCOS panel on a Google Glass prototype, I received a number of inquiries about Kopin including a request from Mark Gomes of SeekingAlpha the give my thoughts about Kopin which were published in…
The conventional wisdom is that eventually OLEDs will become inexpensive and they will push out all other technologies in near eye because they will be smaller and lighter with a simple optical path. But in reading ‘Steve Mann: My “Augmediated”…
I’m going to have to eat some crow because up until Saturday night, I honestly thought Google was using a transmissive panel based on the shape of the newer Google Glass headset. I hadn’t seen anything that showed it used…
I usually just talk technology on this blog, but the recent events involving my blog on Google Glass using Himax’s panel caused some fascinating movement in Himax’s stock price. There have been several moves of over one hundred million…
As a follow-up to my last post, I though I would show why Google Glass is most likely using a transmissive panel. It all comes down to size and shape. Shown to the left is a Kopin transmissive panel more…
I was looking at a video that showed a Google Prototype the other day and it became obvious to me that they were using a color filter LCOS panel. I have seen speculation that Google was using DLP or OLED…
Since my last post on Augmented Reality (AR) and near eye (head mount) display Google put out some publicity on their Project Glass concept. Google made it abundantly clear that this was only for the purposes of concept testing and not…
First, sorry for being away so long. Some family and other matters took me a way and I fell out of the habit of posting. I am going to try to have at least couple of posts up a week.…
Augmented Reality (AR) Head Mounted Displays (HMD) [aka Near Eye Displays, Wearable Computing, and other many other names] has gotten a big boost in the public mindset with the Feb. 22, 2012 New York Times (NYT) article/leak about Google Glasses…
