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CES 2023 (Part 3) – Addoptics Custom Optics (Better than Luxexcel=Meta?)

Updated Jan 23, 2023 – Corrections: Introduction This series on CES 2023 is starting with foundation technologies for AR/MR rather than products with Meta Materials’ non-polarizing dimming and Porotech’s MicroLED display technologies. Addoptics 3-D printable optics molds are a third…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 22, 2023
  • 1 Comment
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Apple Indefinitely Delays AR Product (Bloomberg Report)

Apple’s never announced but widely reported AR product is “Indefinitely Delayed,” According to Bloomberg’s Gurman. At least as far back as 2019, I have been saying, “All of Apple’s money won’t buy them different physics.” Now we have a report…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 18, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Meta Quest Pro (Part 1) – Unbelievably Bad AR Passthrough

Introduction I have been taking pictures and making short video clips to demonstrate different aspects of the displays and optics of the Meta Quest Pro (MQP) for over a month. It was a bit of an onion-peel where detecting one…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 3, 2023
  • 18 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Apple Bought Limbak (SadlyItsBradley)

Just a short update to my December 29th article Limbak Bought by “Large US Company,” Brad of SadlyItsBradley reported on Twitter (link to whole thread) that his sources day that Apple is the “large company” that bought Limbak. Normally, I…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 31, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Limbak Bought by “Large US Company”

Yesterday’s article Meta Buys Luxexcel resulted in another tip I could confirm: Spanish optics design company Limbak was bought by “a large US company.” The speculation is that it might be either Apple or Meta, but I don’t have a…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 29, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Meta Buys Luxexcel

Just a quick note today about some news that just broke on Meta and Luxexcel. It Happens Again, Meta Buys Another Company I was in the middle of an in-depth analysis of the Meta Quest Pro’s Image Quality (or lack…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 28, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Use Model

AWE 2022 (Part 7) Video – Magic Leap 2 with some Hololens 2

Introduction Part 7 of the KGOnTech and SadlyItsBradley discussion of AWE 2022 is now available on the KGOnTech YouTube Channel. Part 7 Primarily covers the Magic Leap 2. At AWE, I got to the Magic Leap 2 for their public…

  • Karl Guttag
  • September 21, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Use Model

AWE 2022 (Part 6) – MicroLED Microdisplays for Augmented Reality

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…

  • Karl Guttag
  • September 19, 2022
  • 2 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, Startups, Use Model

Exclusive: Imagine Optix Bought By Meta – Half Dome 3’s Varifocal Tech – Meta, Valve, and Apple on Collision Course?

Introduction Following up on Meta’s Cambria (Part 2): Is It Half Dome 3? has led to a bit of intrigue. One of my readers pointed out that as stated in the Facebook/Meta’s Doug Lanman’s video EI 2020 Plenary: Quality Screen…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 17, 2021
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