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With CES and SPIE's AR/VR/MR conferences, January is always a very busy month for me. This year, I either met with or saw presentations from over 60 companies. For this first article about CES and AR/VR/MR, I discuss Google (Android XR) and Meta.
Introduction – Display Skeptics Videos It can take me weeks to prepare an in-depth study of a particular AR product, and I have been looking for an outlet to provide more information more quickly. Former Apple engineer Radu Reit and…
Introduction January has always been a crazy month for me. I met with and/or saw presentations from over 29 companies at CES and 59 companies at AR/VR/MR and took about 2,000 between the two conferences. As discussed in SPIE AR/VR/MR…
I divided the two-hour AR Roundtable into three parts, with this being the last and, I think, in some ways, the most interesting part. We discussed more of the motivations for Meta and Snap announcing these concept products. Brad shared some information he has heard about issues with Meta's EMG wristband control, and Jeri shared some of her past experiences with EMG-type control.
Last week I recorded a roundtable discussion of the new Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion AR glasses. We recorded for 2 hours and I just released the first 30 minutes.
Introduction: Challenge from Bosworth Accepted Several people pointed me to an interesting Instagram video AMA (ask me anything) by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on October 21, 2024, that appeared to challenge my October 6th article, Meta Orion AR Glasses (Pt.…
Last week I recorded a roundtable discussion of the new Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion AR glasses. We recorded for 2 hours and I just released the first 30 minutes.
Update: A second reader with expertise in Waveguide believes (but, like my other reader, does not have direct knowledge) that the Snap Spectacles 5 is still using a waveguide with gratings on only one side. This second reader cites the…
Update (Oct. 19th, 2024) While the general premise of this article is that Meta Orion is using similar waveguide technology to Snap (Wave Optics) and that Magic Leap 2 is correct, it turns out that a number of assumptions about…
Introduction While Meta’s announced Orion prototype AR Glasses at Meta Connect made big news, there were few technical details beyond it having a 70-degree field of view (FOV) and using Silicon Carbide waveguides. While they demoed to the more general…
