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Introduction I’m long overdue to report on some things I saw at AWE in late May 2018. Having written two articles (article one and article two) back in 2017, I was curious to see the Varjo demonstration. In recent news,…
Introduction In live video event that Magic Leap billed as “Meet Magic Leap One” (MLO) and promoted as, “Tune in to Twitch at 2 pm ET today as we walk you through the Magic Leap One hardware and platform.” For…
Jason McDowall has posted parts 2 and 3 of his “The AR Show Podcast” interview with me. Links to the show are below or you can subscribe to the podcast. Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Microdisplay Technologies and the Hype of…
First, I just added a grammar checker to my computer which should help make this blog more readable. I tried it out in the last two articles, and it picked up a “few” (ok, if over 30 counts as few)…
CES Announcement Season Begins Updated December 1, 2017 with minor corrections/editing Late November through early January is “CES Announcement Season” where companies announce what they are going to be doing at CES. Its also the time of year went I…
Introduction I’m getting ready to write a much requested set of articles on the pro’s and con’s of various types of microdisplays (LCOS, DLP, and OLED in particular with some discussion of other display types). I feel as a prerequisites,…
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…
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)…
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…
Technically Interesting New Papers At Siggraph 2017 Both Oculus (Facebook) and Microsoft’s are presenting interesting technical research papers at Siggraph 2017 (July 30th to August 3rd) that deal with Vergence/Accommodation (VAC). Both have web pages (Oculus link and Microsoft link)…
