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AWE 2021 Part 2: Laser Scanning – Oqmented, Dispelix, and ST Micro

Introduction In my last article, I discussed my thought on Tilt-5, which I saw for the first time at AWE. For this article, I’m grouping ST Microelectronics (ST-Micro), Oqmented, and Dispelix as they are all involved in laser beam scanning…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 30, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

AWE 2021 Part 1 – Tilt-5 Was Magical

Introduction It was nice to get out and actually look through AR and VR displays at AWE 2021. I started to write about everything I saw at AWE, but to me Tilt-5 was such a standout that I decided to…

  • Karl Guttag
  • November 19, 2021
  • 50 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 3): Soft Edge Occlusion, a Solution for Investors and Not Users

2025/02/07 Correction: I misidentified the work of the University of Arizona as being the work of Arizona State University (ASU). Introduction In my last article, Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications, I wrote that I had…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 28, 2021
  • 16 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups

Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications

Introduction – “Surely, they were not so desperate” — but they appear to be! This article is a follow-up to the last article, Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M. When I first saw that Magic Leap was…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 22, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M

Introduction This blog has covered Magic Leap for nearly five years. I correctly predicted the key display capability of Magic Leap 1 three years before it was formally announced (See 2016 “best fit” and the iFixit Teardown I helped analyze…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 13, 2021
  • 8 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Use Model

Amazon Glow – Fake Images and a Questionable Concept

Introduction – “Kickstarter Quality Fakes” and a Bad Concept Last week Amazon announced several (not so) new concepts. My attention was grabbed by all the fake images associated with the Amazon Glow. The Glow incorporates a small “down projector” (projects…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Use Model

Nreal Teardown: Part 3, Pictures Through the Lens

Introduction Part 1 and part 2 of this Nreal Teardown series discussed what was happening inside the Nreal AR headset. In part 3, we are going to look at the photographs taken through Nreals’ optics. I shot all pictures against…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 7, 2021
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Nreal Teardown: Part 1, Clones and Birdbath Basics

Introduction I had the opportunity to do a teardown of both a Nreal development kit and the Nreal LG product sold in Korea. I completed the Nreal teardown before I got to see Lumus’s Maximus that I reported on last…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 1, 2021
  • 15 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Use Model

Exclusive: Lumus Maximus 2K x 2K Per Eye, >3000 Nits, 50° FOV with Through-the-Optics Pictures

Introduction Ari Grobman, CEO, and Aviv Frommer, Executive VP R&D of Lumus, stopped by on their way to see several companies in the U.S. with their latest Lumus Maximus prototype (hereafter Maximus). And better yet, they said I could take…

  • Karl Guttag
  • May 24, 2021
  • 45 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

Exclusive: Snap Spectacles Appears to Be Using WaveOptics and [an LCOS] a DLP Display

Update – Snap buys WaveOptics for over $500M About an hour or so after this article first when up, reports came out that Snap had bought WaveOptics for over $500M. I had no knowledge that this deal was happening. I…

  • Karl Guttag
  • May 21, 2021
  • 13 Comments
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