Jason McDowall asked me to be one of his first interviews for his new “The AR Show Podcast.” Jason asked many excellent questions covering my history in the electronics industry in part 1. In the upcoming part 2 of the interview,…
Introduction and Background This article started a few weeks ago as-as simple mentioning of all the aftermarket Heads-Up Displays (HUD). I saw at CES. But as I kept writing, it turned into more of lessons learned and (primarily) optical design…
First, I just added a grammar checker to my computer which should help make this blog more readable. I tried it out in the last two articles, and it picked up a “few” (ok, if over 30 counts as few)…
Introduction I’m getting ready to write a much requested set of articles on the pro’s and con’s of various types of microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED in particular with some discussion of other display types). I feel as a prerequisites,…
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 …
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…
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…
The Information: The Reality Behind Magic Leap The online news magazine “The Information” released the article “The Reality Behind Magic Leap” on Dec. 8th, 2016, by Reed Albergotti and in the story gave a link to this blog. So you…
The Dark Side of Waveguides Flat and thin waveguides are certainly impressive optical devices. It is almost magical how you can put light into what looks a lot like thin plates of glass and an small image will go on…
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