So, what display technology is Magic Leap (ML) using, at least in their posted videos? I believe the videos rule out a number of the possible display devices, and by a process of elimination it leaves only one likely technology. Hint: it…
So what is Magic Leap doing? That is the $1.4 billion dollar question. I have been studying their patents as well as videos and articles about them and frankly a lot of it does not add up. The “Hype Factor”…
Microsoft’s Hololens is perhaps the most most well known device using flat “waveguide” optics to “combine” the real world with computer graphics. Note there are no actual “holograms” anywhere in Hololens by the scientific definition. At left is a picture from the…
In general, people find the combining of an image with the real world somewhat magical; we see this with heads up displays (HUDs) as well as Augmented/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) headsets. Unlike Starwars R2D2 projection into thin air which was…
I’m planning on following up on my earlier articles about AR/VR Head Mounted Displays (HMD) that also relate to Heads Up Displays (HUD) with some more articles, but first I would like to get some basic technical concepts out of…
There have been a number of comments on this blog that I am very negative about Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), but I believe I am being realistic about the issues with HMDs. I’m an engineer by training and profession and…
With Microsoft’s big announcement of HoloLens and spending a reported $150 million just for HMD IP from the small Osterhout Design Group, reports of Facebook spending about $2 billion for Oculus Rift, and the mega publicity surrounding Google Glass and the…
Its LAUNCH Day for Navdy as our presale campaign starts today. You can go to the Navdy site to see the video. It was a little over a year ago that Doug Simpson contacted me via this blog asking about how to make a aftermarket heads…
This blog was the first to identify that there was a Himax panel in an early Google Glass prototype and the first to identify that there was a field sequential color LCOS panel inside Google Glass. Due to the connection…
A reader, Doug Atkinson, asked a question about meeting extended temperature ranges with LC based microdisplays, particularly with respect to Kopin. He asked the classic “car dash in the desert and the trunk in Alaska” question. I thought the…
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