Meeting At CES 2018 I’m going to be at CES in Las Vegas again from Tuesday January 9th through Friday January 12th. If you would like to meet, please email me at meetces18@kgontech.com. Please include you contact information, reason you…
Ding-Dong Microvision’s board finally got around to replacing their CEO today (officially, he is going to be “spending more time with his family“). Mind you, they appeared to have been plenty happy with Alexander Tokman after a decade of routinely…
I just wanted to let my readers know I am going to be speaking at The Projection Summit on Oct 5th in Sterling, Virginia (near Washington Dulles Airport) with a 20 minute presentation titled, “AR and VR Display Technologies for…
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…
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…
ODG Announces R-8 and R-9 OLED Microdisplay Headsets at CES It was not exactly a secret, but Osterhout Design Group (ODG) formally announce their new R-8 headset with dual 720p displays (one per eye) and R-9 headset with dual 1080p…
Reintroducing a 5 Year Old Design? Microvision, the 23 year old “startup” in Laser Beam Scanning (LBS), has been a fun topic on this blog since 2011. They are a classic example of a company that tries to make big…
With all the buzz surrounding Magic Leap and this blog’s technical findings about Magic Leap, I was asked to do an interview by the “Everything VR & AR Podcast” hosted by Kevin Harvell. The podcast is available on iTunes and by direct…
Lazy Reporting – The Marketing Hyperbole’s Friend While I have not ODG’s R-9 in person yet, I fully expect that it will look a lot better than Microsoft’s Hololens. I even think it will look better in terms of image…
Kopin Making OLED Microdisplays Kopin announced today that they are getting into the OLED Microdisplay business. This is particularly notable because Kopin has been a long time (since 1999) manufacture of transmissive LCD microdisplays used in camera viewfinders and near…
