At Recode’s Code Media conference on Feb. 13, 2018 (a few hours ago as I write this), they live streamed an interview with Ronny Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap and NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The interview included a prerecorded video with Shaquille…
Lucyd Buzzword Salad Lucyd is offering a cryptocurrency and has to date sold about $3.7M. Lucyd is combining the hype of cryptocurrency blockchains with AR to bedazzle people. Warning, per Lucyd, citizens of the USA, China, and Singapore can’t buy…
Update Feb 5, 2018] – I have been informed that EPFL released a short video in 2012 (link here). The video shows a large test rig with a person holding a mock-up of the glasses talking about the wonderful things it…
Introduction and Background This article started a few weeks ago as-as simple mentioning of all the aftermarket Heads-Up Displays (HUD). I saw at CES. But as I kept writing, it turned into more of lessons learned and (primarily) optical design…
Today I have a brief article based on a tidbit I picked up at CES last week. As told to me from a trustworthy source, Magic Leap’s demo room has picture frames rigged with “markers.” When looking at the sigur…
- Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, Intellectual Property, Laser Projection, LCOS, Micro-LED, OLED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model
First, I just added a grammar checker to my computer which should help make this blog more readable. I tried it out in the last two articles, and it picked up a “few” (ok, if over 30 counts as few)…
Intro to “The Big FSD Con” Of all the things Magic Leap has done, I consider Fiber Scanning Displays (FSD) to the “The Big Con”. The reason why is that Magic Leap made such a big deal about it being…
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…
For this blog which has been describing Magic Leap’s technology for over a year, the Rolling Stone “Reveal” (R.S. Reveal) of the form factor was a non-event. It was just a way for Magic Leap hype train make some news…
That Was Fast – Two “Bug-Eye” Headsets A few days ago I published a story on the Disney Lenovo Optics and wondered why they didn’t use a much simpler “bug-eye” combiner optics similar to the Meta-2 (below right) which currently…