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One Thing Palmer Luckey May Have Gotten Half-Wrong in His “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”

As I wrote last time, Palmer Luckey in his article, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap” did a brilliant job of succinctly explaining how Magic Leap over-hyped their device and how the two focus planes is a tragic fail. I…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 29, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Karl Guttag Interview Parts 2 and 3 On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall has posted parts 2 and 3 of his “The AR Show Podcast” interview with me.  Links to the show are below or you can subscribe to the podcast. Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Microdisplay Technologies and the Hype of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 16, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Interview On The AR Show Podcast

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,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 6, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Use Model

CES 2018 Part 2 (Aftermarket Heads Up Display – HUD)

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 29, 2018
  • 93 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

CES 2018 (Part 1 – AR Overview)

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)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 15, 2018
  • 53 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Collimation, Etendue, Nits (Background for Understanding Brightness)

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,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 10, 2017
  • 30 Comments
  • 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, 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
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