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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

ODG R-8 and R-9 Optic with a OLED Microdisplays (Likely Sony’s)

ODG Announces R-8 and R-9 OLED Microdisplay Headsets at CES It was not exactly a secret, but Osterhout Design Group (ODG) formally announce their new R-8 headset with dual 720p displays (one per eye) and R-9 headset with dual 1080p…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 4, 2017
  • 34 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Everything VR & AR Podcast Interview with Karl Guttag About Magic Leap

With all the buzz surrounding Magic Leap and this blog’s technical findings about Magic Leap, I was asked to do an interview by the “Everything VR & AR Podcast” hosted by Kevin Harvell. The podcast is available on iTunes and by direct…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 28, 2016
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

ODG R-9: A Peak Behind the Video Curtain

Introduction With all the hype about Hololens and Magic Leap (ML), Osterhout Design Group (ODG) often gets overlooked. ODG has not spent as much (but still spending 10’s of millions).  ODG has many more years working in field albeit primarily in…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 25, 2016
  • 5 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

ODG R-9 (Horizon): 1080p Per Eye, Yes Really

Lazy Reporting – The Marketing Hyperbole’s Friend While I have not ODG’s R-9 in person yet, I fully expect that it will look a lot better than Microsoft’s Hololens. I even think it will look better in terms of image…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 23, 2016
  • 1 Comment
  • 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, Use Model

Magic Leap: Focus Planes (Too) Are a Dead End

What Magic Leap Appears to be Doing For this article I would like to dive down on the most likely display and optics Magic Leap (ML) is developing for their their Product Equivalent (PEQ). The PEQ was discussed in the…

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

Magic Leap: Are Parts of Their NDAs Now Unenforceable?

Rony Abovitz’s tweet about “mousy tech bloggers” and one of its responses made me realize something I was taught way back about NDA and intellectual property. It is summarized well (with my bold emphasis) in the article, “What You Probably Don’t…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 11, 2016
  • Pico Projection

Magic Leap Shout Out?: Grumpy Mouse Tech Blogger Here

I have been very busy the last few days and just realize it looks like I got a shout out Tweet from Rony Abovit, the CEO of Magic Leap. On the evening of Dec. 8th, 2016 he wrote, “To a…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 11, 2016
  • 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
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