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2013 Magic Leap “Confidential” Presentation

A Snapshot Into Magic Leap Circa July 2013 I was working through some Magic Leap history I have collected and  comparing it to the Magic Leap One shown in the Rolling Stone Article. In my collection, I had a 197…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 22, 2017
  • 12 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Technology History, Use Model

Magic Leap One – Instant Analysis

Is that all? Magic Leap just announce the “Magic Leap One” in, of all places, a Rolling Stone Article rather than the technical press. Actually “announce” is too strong a word for what Magic Leap did, it is more of a…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 20, 2017
  • 47 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
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

Disney-Lenovo AR Headset – (Part 1 Optics)

Disney Announced Joint AR Development At D23 Disney at their D23 Fan Convention in Anaheim on July 15th, 2017 announced an Augmented Reality (AR) Headset jointly developed with Lenovo. Below is a crop and brightness enhanced still frame capture from…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 18, 2017
  • 4 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Varjo Foveated Display Part 2 – Region Sizes

Introduction As discussed in Part 1, the basic concept of foveated display in theory should work to provide high angular resolution with a wide FOV. There is no single display technology today for near-to-eye displays. Microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • July 10, 2017
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Varjo Foveated Display (Part 1)

Introduction The startup Varjo recently announced and did a large number of interviews with the technical press about their Foveated Display (FD) Technology. I’m going to break this article into multiple parts, as currently planned, the first part will discuss…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 26, 2017
  • 20 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Avegant “Light Field” Display – Magic Leap at 1/100th the Investment?

Surprised at CES 2017 – Avegant Focus Planes (“Light Field”) While at CES 2017 I was invited to Avegant’s Suite and was expecting to see a new and improved and/or a lower cost version of the Avegant Glyph. The Glyph …

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 9, 2017
  • 38 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

Near-Eye Bird Bath Optics Pros and Cons – And IMMY’s Different Approach

Why Birdbaths Optics? Because the Alternative (Waveguides) Must Be Worse (and a teaser) The idea for this article started when I was looking at the ODG R-9 optical design with OLED microdisplays. They combined an OLED microdisplay that is not…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 3, 2017
  • 61 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Use Model

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

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
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