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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
  • 11 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, 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
  • 12 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Startups, Use Model

Meta’s Cambria (Part 2): Is It Half Dome 3?

Introduction After my last article, Meta (aka Facebook) Cambria Electrically Controllable LC Lens for VAC?, many people were pointing me to Half Dome 3 (HD3) and in particular a Doug Lanman, Director of Display Systems Research at Facebook Reality Lab,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 13, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Intellectual Property, Startups, Use Model

Meta (aka Facebook) Cambria Electrically Controllable LC Lens for VAC?

Introduction – Surprise Finding on Meta Cambria I just discovered something I have not seen reported anywhere else about what might be in Meta’s (aka Facebook) next-generation VR headset Cambria discussed last month’s Meta Connect 2021 video.   While writing…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 6, 2021
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Mira Prism and Dreamworld AR – (What Disney Should Have Done?)

That Was Fast – Two “Bug-Eye” Headsets A few days ago  I published a story on the Disney Lenovo Optics and wondered why they didn’t use a much simpler “bug-eye” combiner optics similar to the Meta-2 (below right) which currently…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 22, 2017
  • 9 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap & Hololens: Waveguide Ego Trip?

The Dark Side of Waveguides Flat and thin waveguides are certainly impressive optical devices. It is almost magical how you can put light into what looks a lot like thin plates of glass and an small image will go on…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 8, 2016
  • 28 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

AR/MR Optics for Combining Light for a See-Through Display (Part 1)

In general, people find the combining of an image with the real world somewhat magical; we see this with heads up displays (HUDs) as well as Augmented/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) headsets.   Unlike Starwars R2D2 projection into thin air which was…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 21, 2016
  • 30 Comments

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