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SID Display Week (DW) 2025 is coming to San Jose, CA, May 11–16. My last article discussed the LCOS technology I saw at Display Week 2024, and this article will cover many MicroLED technologies. Of the conferences I go to regularly, Display Week has the most information I have found from MicroLED companies in one place.

It seems like all of a sudden, several companies including Meta are talking about the issue of disparity. Of particular issue with Meta, Magic Leap, and Avegant is the issue of visual distortion due to the frame twist of AR glasses frames.

Introduction At SID Display Week in May 2024, MicroLED maker Jade Bird Display (JBD) had a large booth that showed their devices, a number of customer systems, and a “compensation demo.” JBD offered to loan me their compensation demo. After…

I divided the two-hour AR Roundtable into three parts, with this being the last and, I think, in some ways, the most interesting part. We discussed more of the motivations for Meta and Snap announcing these concept products. Brad shared some information he has heard about issues with Meta's EMG wristband control, and Jeri shared some of her past experiences with EMG-type control.

Last week I recorded a roundtable discussion of the new Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion AR glasses. We recorded for 2 hours and I just released the first 30 minutes.

Introduction My coverage of CES and SPIE AR/VR/MR 2023 continues, this time on MicroLEDs. MicroLEDs companies were abundant in the booths, talks, and private conversations at AR/VR/MR 2023. The list on the right shows some of the MicroLED companies I…

Introduction I was about to write an article grouping several important technologies together, it kept being delayed as I needed more information on each one. I also could see that grouping the companies together would not give each company its…

Introduction Part 6 of the KGOnTech and SadlyItsBradley discussion of AWE 2022 is now available on the KGOnTech YouTube Channel. Part 6 primarily covers MicroLED technology for augmented reality. In addition to discussing the companies showing their AR headsets using…

Introduction This article is going to be a quick one to get ahead of breaking news. WaveOptics is in the process of announcing a strategic supplier relationship with Jade Bird Display (JBD). As this is about to be announced, this…

Introduction Part 1 and part 2 of this Nreal Teardown series discussed what was happening inside the Nreal AR headset. In part 3, we are going to look at the photographs taken through Nreals’ optics. I shot all pictures against…