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…
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 multiple parts, as currently planned, the first part will discuss…
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)…
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 a lower cost version of the Avegant Glyph. The Glyph …
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 their Product Equivalent (PEQ). The PEQ was discussed in the…
The Information: The Reality Behind Magic Leap The online news magazine “The Information” released the article “The Reality Behind Magic Leap” on Dec. 8th, 2016, by Reed Albergotti and in the story gave a link to this blog. So you…
The Dark Side of Waveguides Flat and thin waveguides are certainly impressive optical devices. It is almost magical how you can put light into what looks a lot like thin plates of glass and an small image will go on…
The Goal – Explain What is Magic Leap Doing Magic Leap has a way of talking about what they hope to do someday and not necessarily what they can do anytime soon. Their patent applications are full of things that are totally…
As per my previous post Magic Leaps display technology what Magic Leap is using in their YouTube through the lens demos may or may not be what they will use in the final product. I’m making an assessment of their publicly available videos and patents.…
