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Lucyd – ICO Scheme Wrapped Around Worthless AR Patents

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 7, 2018
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Intel AR “Fixer-Upper” For Sale? Only $350M ???

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 4, 2018
  • 18 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Use Model

CES 2018 Part 2 (Aftermarket Heads Up Display – HUD)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 29, 2018
  • 93 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap – How Rigged Was The Rolling Stone Demo?

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 17, 2018
  • 26 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

CES 2018 (Part 1 – AR Overview)

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)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 15, 2018
  • 53 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection, Startups

Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display (FSD) – “The Big Con” at the “Core”

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 6, 2018
  • 39 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, Intellectual Property, Laser Projection, LCOS, Startups, Technology History

Magic Leap Display Developments Revealed in 2017 – Part 1

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 3, 2018
  • 22 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap – Before The Rolling Stone Reveal

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 30, 2017
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Mira Prism and Dreamworld AR – (What Disney Should Have Done?)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 22, 2017
  • 9 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Varjo Foveated Display Part 2 – Region Sizes

Introduction As discussed in Part 1, the basic concept of foveated display in theory should work to provide high angular resolution with a wide FOV. There is no single display technology today for near-to-eye displays. Microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 10, 2017
  • 7 Comments
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