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Varjo Foveated Display and Passthrough AR at AWE 2018

Introduction I’m long overdue to report on some things I saw at AWE in late May 2018. Having written two articles (article one and article two) back in 2017, I was curious to see the Varjo demonstration. In recent news,…
  • Karl Guttag
  • November 6, 2018
  • 11 Comments
  • Intellectual Property, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection

North’s Focals Laser Beam Scanning AR Glasses – “Color Intel Vaunt”

North’s Focals LBS AR Glasses Overview North (formerly Thalmic Labs) announced a few days ago (Oct 23, 2018) the “Focals” laser beam scanning-based AR glasses (aside: a set of confusing names). The best article I saw on the “Focals” was from…
  • Karl Guttag
  • October 25, 2018
  • 51 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, LCOS, Pico Projection

Magic Leap Review Part 2 – Image Issues

In the last article, I showed what the real world looks like through the Magic Leap One (ML1). For this article, am going to share some pictures I took through the ML1 optics displaying test patterns. Above left is a crop of…
  • Karl Guttag
  • October 1, 2018
  • 20 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, LCOS

Magic Leap Review Part 1 – The Terrible View Through Diffraction Gratings

I have been studying the Magic Leap One (ML1) for a few weeks and have taken over 1,000 photos and made many measurements. I’m bursting with things I want to talk about, so I am planning to release a series…
  • Karl Guttag
  • September 26, 2018
  • 42 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, LCOS, Use Model

Wired UK: Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?

Wired UK reporter K.G. Orphanides was doing a follow up to Palmer Luckey’s Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap blog post and contacted me for my opinion. The Wired U.K. article is entitled, “Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?”…
  • Karl Guttag
  • September 2, 2018
  • 8 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, DLP, Intellectual Property, Laser Projection, LCOS

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, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, LCOS, Technology History

Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”

I got a “pingback” that another site was linking to my blog article “Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display (FSD) – “The Big Con” at the “Core.” It turned out that the article, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap” was a…
  • Karl Guttag
  • August 27, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, LCOS, Pico Projection, Technology History

iFixit’s Magic Leap One Teardown Confirms KGOnTech’s Analysis From November 2016

Just a quick, but timely note today. I was asked by iFixit to help them identify the optical components for their Magic Leap One (ML1) teardown published today. The picture above is from iFixit but with my labeling. It turns out…
  • Karl Guttag
  • August 23, 2018
  • 24 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap Livestream 02 Gives Up Some Clues

Introduction In live video event that Magic Leap billed as “Meet Magic Leap One” (MLO) and promoted as, “Tune in to Twitch at 2 pm ET today as we walk you through the Magic Leap One hardware and platform.” For…
  • Karl Guttag
  • June 10, 2018
  • 12 Comments
  • HUD, Intellectual Property, Pico Projection, Use Model

Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz Responds KGOnTech And Dodges Questions

Introduction Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, gave me a couple of shout-outs on his Twitter feed. I have cut and pasted images from the feed at the end of this article. I wanted to make a quick to respond…
  • Karl Guttag
  • April 15, 2018
  • 22 Comments
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