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Near-Eye Bird Bath Optics Pros and Cons – And IMMY’s Different Approach

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 3, 2017
  • 61 Comments

Why Birdbaths Optics? Because the Alternative (Waveguides) Must Be Worse (and a teaser) The idea for this article started when I was looking at the ODG R-9 optical design with…

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CES 2017 AR, What Problem Are They Trying To Solve?

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 31, 2017
  • 23 Comments

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…

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ODG R-8 and R-9 Optic with a OLED Microdisplays (Likely Sony’s)

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 4, 2017
  • 34 Comments

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…

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Microvision Laser Beam Scanning: Everything Old Is New Again

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 29, 2016
  • 10 Comments

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…

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Everything VR & AR Podcast Interview with Karl Guttag About Magic Leap

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 28, 2016
  • 1 Comment

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…

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ODG R-9: A Peak Behind the Video Curtain

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 25, 2016
  • 5 Comments

Introduction With all the hype about Hololens and Magic Leap (ML), Osterhout Design Group (ODG) often gets overlooked. ODG has not spent as much (but still spending 10’s of millions).…

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ODG R-9 (Horizon): 1080p Per Eye, Yes Really

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 23, 2016
  • 1 Comment

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…

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Kopin Entering OLED Microdisplay Market

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 21, 2016
  • 13 Comments

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…

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Magic Leap and Hololens and LCOS

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 20, 2016
  • 27 Comments

LCOS Used In Hololens and Likely Magic Leap It is well known that Microsoft’s Hololens uses two Himax manufactured Field Sequential Color (FSC) LCOS microdisplays. Additionally there are reports, particularly…

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Meeting At CES 2017 January 5th to 8th

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 19, 2016

I have had a number of people ask if I was going to CES 2017 in Las Vega and we could meet. I’m going to be at the show from…

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Magic Leap: Focus Planes (Too) Are a Dead End

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 16, 2016
  • 33 Comments

What Magic Leap Appears to be Doing For this article I would like to dive down on the most likely display and optics Magic Leap (ML) is developing for their…

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Evergaze: Helping People See the Real World

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 13, 2016
  • 9 Comments

Real World AR Today I would like to forget about all the hype and glamor near eye products to have fun in a virtual world. Instead I’m going to talk…

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Magic Leap CSI: Display Device Fingerprints

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 12, 2016
  • 9 Comments

Introduction I have gotten a lot of questions as to how I could be so sure that Magic Leap (ML) was using Micro-OLEDs in all their “Through Magic Leap Technology”…

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Magic Leap: Are Parts of Their NDAs Now Unenforceable?

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 11, 2016

Rony Abovitz’s tweet about “mousy tech bloggers” and one of its responses made me realize something I was taught way back about NDA and intellectual property. It is summarized well (with…

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