For over fifteen years, the smart glasses industry has been chasing a hard technical problem: how do you fit a compelling digital experience into a normal-looking pair of glasses. We’re finally nearing the goal: Cameras, microphones and an AI language model turn glasses into a quiet, always-available assistant, and that idea is getting real traction. … Continue reading AI Glasses Just Earned a New Nickname. It’s Not Flattering. →

The future of smart glasses will not begin with virtual worlds. It will begin with making everyday life easier. A real world example: Contextual Human Assistance I think back to when we made the ORA-1 and ORA-2 smart glasses at Optinvent in the early days. We had no idea what they would be used for. … Continue reading 15 Years Later We Have a Killer App for AR Glasses. It’s Not AR. →

AR is at an inflection point. Smart glasses are starting to go mainstream: no longer a niche curiosity or a low volume vertical market solution looking for a problem. The killer app is here: AI. The shift from “immersive AR” to “wearable AI” is a wake-up call to the industry. Consumer price points, scalability, and … Continue reading Why the Waveguide Is Blocking Mass-Market AR Glasses →

Description of various AR display technologies: Various techniques have existed for some time for AR displays. Most of these techniques can be summarized into two main families: “Free Space Curved Mirror” based, and “Waveguide” or “Lightguide” based technologies. The curved mirror-based techniques use a semi-reflective curved reflector or a flat mirror placed in front of … Continue reading Waveguide Combiners for AR Glasses →

An Analysis of Magic Leap’s Technology There are lots of articles out there about Magic Leap so we though we would give you our analysis of their tech.   We’ll start by analyzing a few of Magic Leap’s key patents since there’s not much to go by in terms of real demos or images of the … Continue reading Magic Leap Analysis: Dispelling some of the Myths →

Authors:  Kayvan Mirza and Khaled Sarayeddine   Abstract: Low cost see-through technologies for wearable AR displays have been an elusive key element to enable the market for consumer oriented mobile AR.  This paper will explore the various available technologies and the key challenges faced in order to develop a platform that will enable affordable wearable … Continue reading Affordable AR Displays: Focus on Optical See-Through Waveguide Technologies for AR Glasses →

IDW 2010 Low cost see-through smart glass display technology was developed. Monolithic transparent molded plastic light guide with an array of small surface mirrors enables a bright image with a field of view of 27 degrees. Download Full Paper Here: IDW2010_PRJ2_1

IDW 2012 A large single interactive display designed for the cockpits of future airplanes, as it was developed during the European Project ODICIS is presented. It is based on an array of several short throw wide angle projectors resulting in a seamlessly tiled display. The project results are discussed in this contribution. Download Full Publication … Continue reading Projection Technology for Future Airplane Cockpits (ODICIS) displayed at IDW →

EURODISPLAY 2011 Front projectors with shorter projection distance start to gain a lot of interest mainly for Educational Market or Interactive Display Board segments. The shorter projection distance is necessary to avoid the user to hit projected image rays and to reduce the necessary volume for the fixed installation of the projector. We have developed … Continue reading Short Throw Projection System with Zoom (Slim Zoom) →

IDW 2010 Avionics represents a specialized area of display applications. A possible future development in this field is a single display cockpit environment with touch input capabilities. Such a seamless, tiled cockpit display based on several short throw wide angle projectors is being developed in the European Project ODICIS. The current results are discussed in … Continue reading PROJECTION DISPLAYS IN AVIONICS (ODICIS) →

SID 2008 Micro Display based Rear projection TV (RPTV) offers Full HD and potentially lower cost than LCD and PDP for large screen size. Today millions of RPTV’s sold in the market do not fit customer need in terms of form factor and the limited life time of the lamp. Slimmer and low chin cabinets … Continue reading SLIM LASER TV PRESENTED AT SID MID EUROPE JENA →

SID 2008 Rear Projection TV (RPTV) offers low cost and high definition images, but suffers from inadequate form factor for the cabinet design. Slim RPTV design with small depth and low chin (distance from stand to image lower edge) are available and offer a second chance for RPTV to compete in the battle of flat … Continue reading SPACE VARIANT RETARDER PRESENTED AT SID LOS ANGELES →

IDW 2008 Micro Display based (Rear & Front) projectors in general offer HD and are lower cost than LCD and PDP for large screen size. Current non slim RPTV sold in the market do not fit customer needs in terms of form factor and the limited life time of the lamp. Slim and low chin … Continue reading ULTRA WIDE ANGLE OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR LASER TV AND SHORT THROW DISTANCE FRONT PROJECTOR →