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Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 6: Microsoft’s FUD on Photographs)

Introduction (Marketing FUD) Microsoft recently put up an FAQ page with the topic heading. Why am I unable to take an accurate photograph of my HoloLens 2 display?. The purpose of this FAQ seems to be to discourage and discredit talking…

  • Karl Guttag
  • September 6, 2020
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 5: Poor Intensity Control)

Introduction – Following Up on Color Control As I noted in Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 3: Color Uniformity), one the first things when I first tried a Hololens 2 (HL2) was that colors were washed out (see below). The color…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 1, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 3: Color Uniformity)

Introduction – A Single Image With Both the Left and Right Displays For today, I’m going to show a single image as seen through the left and right display in the Hololens 2 (HL2). I have verified that the pictures…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 10, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 2: Comparison to Hololens 1)

Introduction – Answering a Simple Question In response to Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 1: LBS Visual Sausage Being Made), someone asked, “How does the Hololens 2 (HL2) compare to the Hololens 1 (HL1) in terms of image quality.” I…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 8, 2020
  • 22 Comments
  • Pico Projection

Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 1: LBS Visual Sausage Being Made)

Introduction A Hololens 2 (HL2) was purchased directly from the Microsoft store online, and I have been evaluating its display technology for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, this further pushed out my article on MicroLEDs that I have been working.…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 4, 2020
  • 43 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Technology History, Use Model

Hololens 2: How Bad Having Tried It?

Introduction I working on pipeline of articles AR systems and technologies, including the many things I saw at CES 2020 in January and Photonics West (PW) in February plus some related topics. Between CES and PWI have been going in…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 2, 2020
  • 31 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

Hololens 2, Not a Pretty Picture

Update 12-19-2019 – Added missing hyperlink for one of the photographs to the text. In editing the document, an important hyperlink that pointed to where I got one of the photos was accidentally lost. The link was included label of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 18, 2019
  • 52 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Hololens 2 (HL2): “Scan Lines” Making Text Hard to Read and Quality Issues with Waveguides

Update (Dec 4th, 2019) Post Referred To In Original Article Deleted – News Control: Within 12 hours of the original article being posted, the posts/threads on Facebook’s Hololens Developer’s Group that I linked to in the original article have been…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 3, 2019
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Hololens 2 Video with Microvision “Easter Egg” Plus Some Hololens and Magic Leap Rumors

Introduction My next article was going to be about the view through AR devices, but a 1-hour video of Alex Kipman, Microsoft Fellow, discussing the Hololens 2 (HL2) at ETH October, 3rd 2019 (ETH Video) was just released. I decided…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 10, 2019
  • 28 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

Hololens 2 First Impressions: Good Ergonomics, But The LBS Resolution Math Fails!

Update Feb 28, 2019 Hololens 2 Announcement Feb 24th As Expected, the Hololens 2 (HL2) was announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Feb 24th, 2019. As I reported last time prior to the announcement, HL2 it is…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 27, 2019
  • 49 Comments
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