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)…
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…
Is that all? Magic Leap just announce the “Magic Leap One” in, of all places, a Rolling Stone Article rather than the technical press. Actually “announce” is too strong a word for what Magic Leap did, it is more of a…
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…
Disney Announced Joint AR Development At D23 Disney at their D23 Fan Convention in Anaheim on July 15th, 2017 announced an Augmented Reality (AR) Headset jointly developed with Lenovo. Below is a crop and brightness enhanced still frame capture from…
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)…
Technically Interesting New Papers At Siggraph 2017 Both Oculus (Facebook) and Microsoft’s are presenting interesting technical research papers at Siggraph 2017 (July 30th to August 3rd) that deal with Vergence/Accommodation (VAC). Both have web pages (Oculus link and Microsoft link)…
