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Varjo Foveated Display Part 2 – Region Sizes

Introduction As discussed in Part 1, the basic concept of foveated display in theory should work to provide high angular resolution with a wide FOV. There is no single display technology today for near-to-eye displays. Microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 10, 2017
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, OLED, Startups

Varjo Foveated Display (Part 1)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 26, 2017
  • 20 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, LCOS, Pico Projection, Technology History, Use Model

Near Eye Displays (NEDs): Gaps In Pixel Sizes

I get a lot of questions to the effect of “what is the best technology for a near eye display (NED).” There really is no “best” as every technology has its strengths and weaknesses. I plan to right a few…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 7, 2017
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, Intellectual Property, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, LCOS, Startups, Use Model

Avegant “Light Field” Display – Magic Leap at 1/100th the Investment?

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 …

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 9, 2017
  • 38 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, LCOS, Use Model

Near-Eye Bird Bath Optics Pros and Cons – And IMMY’s Different Approach

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 3, 2017
  • 61 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, LCOS, Pico Projection, Startups, Use Model

CES 2017 AR, What Problem Are They Trying To Solve?

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 31, 2017
  • 23 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

ODG R-9: A Peak Behind the Video Curtain

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 25, 2016
  • 5 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

ODG R-9 (Horizon): 1080p Per Eye, Yes Really

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 23, 2016
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, LCOS, Pico Projection

Kopin Entering OLED Microdisplay Market

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 21, 2016
  • 13 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

AR/MR Optics for Combining Light for a See-Through Display (Part 1)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 21, 2016
  • 30 Comments
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