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In this part of my year in AR review, I discuss novel optical combiners from TDK, Fourier Optics, CREAL's HOE, Smith Displays laser "Wave Mixing." I also discuss TDK's acquisition of LBS maker Oqmented and coherent Lissajous scanning.
along with some of TDK's laser beam scanning (LBS) activity. I also briefly mention CREAL's HOE combiner.

Last month at MicroLED and ARVR Connect, I gave a “Master Class” on the conference’s first day. In Part 2, I discuss the trends I noticed in 2026 for both Reflective and Diffractive waveguides.

SID Display Week (DW) 2025 is coming to San Jose, CA, May 11–16. My last two articles discussed LCOS technology I saw at DW 2024 and MicroLEDs for AR at DW 2024. This article will concentrate on Micro-OLED (also known as OLEDs on Silicon), which could be used in optics-see-through (OST) Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) headsets.

Meeting at CES 2023 First, I plan to go to CES 2023, January 5th through the 8th. If you have business interests or would just like to meet to discuss technology, email me at ces@kgontech.com. The setup for AR is going…