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Introduction At AWE 2024, I was on a panel discussion titled “The Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses.” Jeri Ellsworth, CEO of Tilt Five, Ed Tang, CEO of Avegant, Adi Robertson, Senior Reporter at The Verge, and I…
Introduction I planned to wrap up my first pass coverage of the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) with my summary and conclusions based on prior articles. But the more I thought about it, Apple’s approach to Passthrough Mixed Reality (PtMR) seems…
Introduction In this series about the Apple Vision Pro, this sub-series on Monitor Replacement and Business/Text applications started with Part 5A, which discussed scaling, text grid fitting, and binocular overlap issues. Part 5B starts by documenting some of Apple’s claims…
Introduction – Now Three Parts 5A-C I want to address feedback in the comments and on LinkedIn from Part 5A about whether Apple claimed the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) was supposed to be a monitor replacement for office/text applications. Another…
Introduction As I wrote in Apple Vision Pro (Part 1) regarding the media coverage of the Apple Vision Pro, “Unfortunately, I saw very little technical analysis and very few with deep knowledge of the issues of virtual and augmented reality.…
Introduction Hypervision, a company making a name for itself by developing very wide field of view VR pancake optics, just released a short article analyzing the Apple Vision Pro’s pancake on their website titled, First Insights about Apple Vision Pro…
Introduction This part will primarily cover the hardware and related human physical and visual issues with the Apple Vision Pro (AVP). In Part 3, I intend to discuss my issues with the applications Apple has shown for the AVP. In…
Update June 14, 2023 PM: It turns out that Apple’s news release states, “This technological breakthrough, combined with custom catadioptric lenses that enable incredible sharpness and clarity . . . ” Catadioptric means a combination of refractive and reflective optical…
At AWE 2023, I gave a 25 minute presentation on the topic of Optical Mixed Reality (MR) versus Passthrough MR. I received many requests for a copy of the presentation. I had enough information on the 38 slides for a 2 hour presentation on the topic so I had to go through them rather quickly and pick and chose what was discussed so I decided to publish the slides.
Limas Lim (LinkedIn Contact) is a reader of my blog and wanted to share his block diagram and teardown of the Meta Quest Pro. He sent me these diagrams over a month ago, but I have been busy with videos and blog articles about the companies I met with at CES and AR/VR/MR 2023.