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)…
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 OLED microdisplays. They combined an OLED microdisplay that is not…
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 picture that caught me next to the Lumus Maximus demo…
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 displays (one per eye) and R-9 headset with dual 1080p…
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…
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…
