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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). ODG has many more years working in field albeit primarily in…
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 even think it will look better in terms of image…
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 of transmissive LCD microdisplays used in camera viewfinders and near…
Microsoft’s Hololens is perhaps the most most well known device using flat “waveguide” optics to “combine” the real world with computer graphics. Note there are no actual “holograms” anywhere in Hololens by the scientific definition. At left is a picture from the…
In general, people find the combining of an image with the real world somewhat magical; we see this with heads up displays (HUDs) as well as Augmented/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) headsets. Unlike Starwars R2D2 projection into thin air which was…
Introduction In my last article, I discussed my thought on Tilt-5, which I saw for the first time at AWE. For this article, I’m grouping ST Microelectronics (ST-Micro), Oqmented, and Dispelix as they are all involved in laser beam scanning…
Introduction Part 1 of EyeWay Vision: Foveated Laser Scanning Display gave an overview of EyeWay’s technology. As I will discuss more in the next article (Part 3), EyeWay is one of the most technically interesting developments I have seen in…
Just a Quick Note on Part 2 of the Interview The AR Show with host Jason McDowall has published part 2 of a 3 part interview with me on AR. The podcast can be listed to on The AR Show…
Is Hololens 2 Really Shipping? Many tech sites, including Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, Next Reality, and CNET are reporting that Hololens 2 is “officially” shipping as of today as a price of $3,500 for the bare-bones hardware-only version. But before…
