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Great New Book on AR/MR/XR Displays

Introduction Between going to CES and Photonic’s West AR/VR/MR conference, plus travel for work, I have a large backlog of material to write about. I’m going to start with a new book that was published. In talking we others at…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 11, 2020
  • 5 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection, Use Model

Hololens 2, Not a Pretty Picture

Update 12-19-2019 – Added missing hyperlink for one of the photographs to the text. In editing the document, an important hyperlink that pointed to where I got one of the photos was accidentally lost. The link was included label of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 18, 2019
  • 52 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property

The Lack of Apple AR Patents and Apple’s Leveraging the AIA’s PTAB “Banana Republic” Courts

Introduction and Background As I discussed in Apple AR Patent Clutter and Hiding AR Patents, Apple has very few of what I would consider “serious” AR patent applications. Of the very few interesting patent applications they have filed, almost all…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 12, 2019
  • 5 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, HUD, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection

Hololens 2 (HL2): “Scan Lines” Making Text Hard to Read and Quality Issues with Waveguides

Update (Dec 4th, 2019) Post Referred To In Original Article Deleted – News Control: Within 12 hours of the original article being posted, the posts/threads on Facebook’s Hololens Developer’s Group that I linked to in the original article have been…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 3, 2019
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property

Apple AR Patent Clutter and Hiding AR Patents

Introduction Apple, like all big companies, constantly files patents on concepts with no serious intention of using them in products.  Additionally, just because a patent is filed, it does not mean that the idea is practical or even that it…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 20, 2019
  • 9 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Hololens 2 Is Shipping, But Not Really That Many

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 8, 2019
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

Starts with Ray-Ban®, Ends Up Like Hololens

Introduction Just a quick update to my last article this time. I found another “No Moore’s Law” for optics reference that was the subject of my last article, “Saying “Moore’s Law or Apple” Does Not Make AR a Consumer Product.”…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 5, 2019
  • 22 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Pico Projection, Technology History

Saying “Moore’s Law or Apple” Does Not Make AR a Consumer Product

First, a Request for Input on Apple’s AR Effort Before I get started on the article (although this is related), I would like to make a request for help in identifying what Apple is doing in AR. Apple has R&D…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 24, 2019
  • 14 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, LCOS

Samsung AR Design Patent – What’s Inside

Samsung AR Design “News” Several technology news articles on October 23, 2019 (yesterday as I write) reported about a possible Samsung AR design, including Engadget, The Verge, and Pocket-Lint, based on a Samsung AR Headset Design Patent discovered by Galaxy…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 23, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

FOV: AR and The View of the Real World

Introduction In this article, I want to discuss what seems often overlooked in AR Field of View (FOV) discussions, namely the view of the real world. It seems like for some headsets, the view of the real world is almost…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 21, 2019
  • 9 Comments
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