Exclusive – Playnitride Single Chip Full Color MicroLED & Lumus Waveguide with a “Fantasically Tiny Projector”

Several technology demonstrations stood out to me at Display Week (DW) 2025. This article will cover Playnitride's Quantum Dot (QD) based full-color MicroLED, combined with Lumus's geometric (also known as reflective waveguide) technology.

As I wrote in may last article, Lumus showed me a "fantastically tiny projector" connected to their waveguide.

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Exclusive: Rivet Industries Using Lumus Waveguides for Military & Industrial AR

Rivet Industries was founded in 2024 by people that worked on Microsoft Hololens. In looking at their website, I discovered that they were using Lumus geometric waveguides. In addition to Microsoft, Rivet also has connections' in Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies. Rivet may be more than your everyday startup.

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Meta Hypernova and Google AR/AI Glasses – Lumus & Avegant Inside, Both Using LCOS MicroDisplays

Meta and Google are both working on AR/AI glasses that are Monocular, Full Color, and using LCOS MicroDisplays (rather than MicroLEDs). It looks to me like Meta has chosen Lumus for its reflective waveguide while Google is using Applied Materials Diffractive Waveguide with an Avegant projector engine.

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SID Display Week 2024 – LCOS

SID Display Week 2025 is coming to San Jose, CA, May 11–16. Last year's event was a whirlwind of groundbreaking innovations. While I managed to share insights on Jade Bird Display's MicroLED Compensation, I’ve been sitting on information and photos on many other companies from Display Week 2024. With this year's show right around the corner, it's time to dust off those notes and many photos and write about the display and optics technology I found at last year’s Display Week, which was so interesting that I want to go back again this year.  

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XReal One Pro Optics and Its Connections to Ant-Reality and Google

Since starting this blog, I have been interested in AR optical designs that are different from others I have seen. When Xreal showed their Xreal One Pro at CES 2025, I was curious to know how it worked. As it turned out, the design was not as different as I had first thought. But the journey lead me to find some connections between Xreal's optical design and that of, Ant-Reality which was reportedly acquired by Google.

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Disparity Correction Has Become Important All of a Sudden – Plus some on Binocular Color Difference (Snap & JBD)

It seems like all of a sudden, several companies including Meta are talking about the issue of disparity. Of particular issue with Meta, Magic Leap, and Avegant is the issue of visual distortion due to the frame twist of AR glasses frames.

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SPIE AR/VR/MR 2025 Next Week (with comments on CES, Display Week, & AWE)

I wanted to drop a quick note that I am going to be at AR/VR/MR 2025 next week and am looking forward to meeting people and seeing technology. If you want to meet with me, please email meet@kgontech.com. While mentioning AR/VR/MR, I thought it would be good to give my perspective on the conferences I plan to attend (or in the case of CES attended) this year, including CES, SID Display Week, and Augmented World Expo (AWE).

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