May 12, 2020 (PM) – Microsoft denies rumors they are buying Microvision. See follow up article from May 12th. May 12, 2020 (PM) – Users on Reddit r/MVIS forum traced the source of The Florida Independent story May 12th to…
[May 5, 2020 – Added a small section on direct retinal scanning (ex. North Focals)] Disclosures In February 2019, when I realized that Microvision’s technology was definitely going to be used in Hololens 2 (HL2), I bought what was for…
Introduction I apologize for being so long between blog entries. I had a bunch of travel, followed by being sick for the a long time. With a mountain of things I wanted to discuss, I had a bit of a…
Introduction I working on pipeline of articles AR systems and technologies, including the many things I saw at CES 2020 in January and Photonics West (PW) in February plus some related topics. Between CES and PWI have been going in…
Introduction Between going to CES and Photonic’s West AR/VR/MR conference, plus travel for work, I have a large backlog of material to write about. I’m going to start with a new book that was published. In talking we others at…
Update 12-19-2019 – Added missing hyperlink for one of the photographs to the text. In editing the document, an important hyperlink that pointed to where I got one of the photos was accidentally lost. The link was included label of…
Meeting At CES 2020 I’m going to be at CES in Las Vegas again from Tuesday, January 7th through Friday, January 10th, 2020. If you would like to meet, please email me at meet-kg-2020@kgontech.com. Please include your contact information, the reason…
Introduction and Background As I discussed in Apple AR Patent Clutter and Hiding AR Patents, Apple has very few of what I would consider “serious” AR patent applications. Of the very few interesting patent applications they have filed, almost all…
Update (Dec 4th, 2019) Post Referred To In Original Article Deleted – News Control: Within 12 hours of the original article being posted, the posts/threads on Facebook’s Hololens Developer’s Group that I linked to in the original article have been…
Introduction Apple, like all big companies, constantly files patents on concepts with no serious intention of using them in products. Additionally, just because a patent is filed, it does not mean that the idea is practical or even that it…
