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Interview On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall asked me to be one of his first interviews for his new “The AR Show Podcast.” Jason asked many excellent questions covering my history in the electronics industry in part 1. In the upcoming part 2 of the interview,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 6, 2018
  • 4 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed

At Recode’s Code Media conference on Feb. 13, 2018 (a few hours ago as I write this), they live streamed an interview with Ronny Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap and NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The interview included a prerecorded video with Shaquille…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 14, 2018
  • 20 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

CES 2018 (Part 1 – AR Overview)

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)…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 15, 2018
  • 54 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display (FSD) – “The Big Con” at the “Core”

Intro to “The Big FSD Con” Of all the things Magic Leap has done, I consider Fiber Scanning Displays (FSD) to the “The Big Con”. The reason why is that Magic Leap made such a big deal about it being…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 6, 2018
  • 39 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap House of Cards – FSD, Waveguides, and Focus Planes

FSD, Waveguides, and Focus/Depth Planes – A Fatally Flawed Foundation While you can’t find what Magic Leap hypes as “photonic light field chip” anywhere in their patent application, they do discuss diffractive (mostly) waveguides. I have previously discussed some of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • January 6, 2018
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap – Before The Rolling Stone Reveal

For this blog which has been describing Magic Leap’s technology for over a year, the Rolling Stone “Reveal” (R.S. Reveal) of the form factor was a non-event. It was just a way for Magic Leap hype train make some news…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 30, 2017
  • 1 Comment
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

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

Collimation, Etendue, Nits (Background for Understanding Brightness)

[June 2024 Update – There were three dead links in this article. One has been resurrected by the “Wayback Machine,” but I could not find the other two.] Introduction I’m getting ready to write a much-requested set of articles on…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 10, 2017
  • 33 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
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