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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, 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, 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

Magic Leap: “The Information” Article

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 9, 2016
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap & Hololens: Waveguide Ego Trip?

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 8, 2016
  • 28 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap: When Reality Hits the Fan

Largely A Summary With Some New Information I have covered a lot of material and even then only glossed at the surface of what I have learned about Magic Leap (ML). By combining the information available (patent applications, articles, and…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 6, 2016
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap – Fiber Scanning Display Follow UP

Some Newer Information On Fiber Scanning Through some discussions and further searching I found some more information about Fiber Scanning Displays (FSD) that I wanted to share. If anything, this material further supports the contention that Magic Leap (ML) is…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 1, 2016
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Technology History

Magic Leap – Separating Magic and Reality

The Goal – Explain What is Magic Leap Doing Magic Leap has a way of talking about what they hope to do someday and not necessarily what they can do anytime soon.  Their patent applications are full of things that are totally…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 20, 2016
  • 39 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap – The Display Technology Used in their Videos

So, what display technology is Magic Leap (ML) using, at least in their posted videos?   I believe the videos rule out a number of the possible display devices, and by a process of elimination it leaves only one likely technology. Hint: it…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 9, 2016
  • 24 Comments
  • Pico Projection, Startups

Wrist Projector Scams – Ritot, Cicret, the new eyeHand

Wrist Projectors are the crowdfund scams that keeps on giving with new ones cropping up every 6 months to a year. When I say scam, I mean that there is zero chance that they will ever deliver anything even remotely…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 5, 2016
  • 15 Comments
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