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Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/MR 2022

Magic Leap 2 Presentation Was the Hit of the Conference Kevin Curtis (Curtis), Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, presentation “Unveiling Magic Leap 2’s Advanced AR Platform and Revolutionary Optics” at the SPIE AR/VR/MR conference created the most buzz of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 31, 2022
  • 18 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Exclusive: Snap Buying Compound Photonics (LCOS and MicroLED)

Introduction On May 21, 2021, this blog broke the news that Snap was going to use WaveOptics, and just two hours later, news broke that Snap had bought WaveOptics. In that article, I speculated that WaveOptics was moving toward using…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 7, 2022
  • 12 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Use Model

AWE 2021 Part 2: Laser Scanning – Oqmented, Dispelix, and ST Micro

Introduction In my last article, I discussed my thought on Tilt-5, which I saw for the first time at AWE. For this article, I’m grouping ST Microelectronics (ST-Micro), Oqmented, and Dispelix as they are all involved in laser beam scanning…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 30, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

AWE 2021 Part 1 – Tilt-5 Was Magical

Introduction It was nice to get out and actually look through AR and VR displays at AWE 2021. I started to write about everything I saw at AWE, but to me Tilt-5 was such a standout that I decided to…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 19, 2021
  • 50 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 3): Soft Edge Occlusion, a Solution for Investors and Not Users

2025/02/07 Correction: I misidentified the work of the University of Arizona as being the work of Arizona State University (ASU). Introduction In my last article, Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications, I wrote that I had…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 28, 2021
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications

Introduction – “Surely, they were not so desperate” — but they appear to be! This article is a follow-up to the last article, Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M. When I first saw that Magic Leap was…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 22, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M

Introduction This blog has covered Magic Leap for nearly five years. I correctly predicted the key display capability of Magic Leap 1 three years before it was formally announced (See 2016 “best fit” and the iFixit Teardown I helped analyze…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 13, 2021
  • 8 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Use Model

Amazon Glow – Fake Images and a Questionable Concept

Introduction – “Kickstarter Quality Fakes” and a Bad Concept Last week Amazon announced several (not so) new concepts. My attention was grabbed by all the fake images associated with the Amazon Glow. The Glow incorporates a small “down projector” (projects…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Use Model

Nreal Teardown: Part 3, Pictures Through the Lens

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 7, 2021
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Nreal Teardown: Part 1, Clones and Birdbath Basics

Introduction I had the opportunity to do a teardown of both a Nreal development kit and the Nreal LG product sold in Korea. I completed the Nreal teardown before I got to see Lumus’s Maximus that I reported on last…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 1, 2021
  • 15 Comments
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