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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…
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…
A little break from displays today to go back into my deep dark history. For my first 20 years in the industry, I was an I.C. designer and led led…
Introduction The startup Varjo recently announced and did a large number of interviews with the technical press about their Foveated Display (FD) Technology. I’m going to break this article into…
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…
Update 2017-06-09 – I added the Sony Z5 Premium 4K Cell Phone size LCD to the table. Their “pixel” is about 71% the linear dimension of the Samsung S8 or…
Surprised at CES 2017 – Avegant Focus Planes (“Light Field”) While at CES 2017 I was invited to Avegant’s Suite and was expecting to see a new and improved and/or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
