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The blog post discusses the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses, focusing on their optical technology, including the Lumus geometric waveguide and OmniVision LCOS microdisplay. The author shares insights from teardowns conducted with iFi...
The blog post discusses Snap's upcoming consumer AR glasses, the Snap Spectacles 5 (S5), highlighting their developer kit launch, features, and the company's approach to AR technology. It details Snap's openness in showcasing the ...
The article discusses the development of Google’s AR glasses, which utilize Raxium's MicroLED technology. The author corrects a previous assumption that the glasses used Avegant's LCOS engines, revealing instead that Raxium's mono...
Display Skeptics explores AR technology developments and industry news, highlighting upcoming conferences and the impact of product functionality on market success.
The author announces the availability of their presentation on AI glasses from the AWE conference, detailing its content which includes practical and technical issues related to glasses form factor AI glasses, particularly focusin...
The blog post discusses a leaked video of Meta's upcoming AR glasses, codenamed Hypernova and expected to be named Celest, which is set to be revealed at Meta Connect. The author highlights the use of Lumus waveguides in the glass...
Key developments in AR/VR from CES and SPIE 2026 highlight challenges and innovations from Google and Meta, emphasizing the need for compelling applications to drive consumer adoption.
The blog post discusses the author's upcoming busy schedule in September, including participation in the MicroLED and AR/VR Connect conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from September 23-25, 2025. The author mentions an interview...
The article discusses Playnitride's Quantum Dot based full-color MicroLED combined with Lumus's geometric technology, including a private demonstration of a tiny MicroLED projector. It also covers Lumus's Maximus waveguide and Pla...
Rivet Industries, a new company, has emerged from stealth mode and is using Lumus waveguides for military and industrial AR. The company has raised $12.6M and has connections to Microsoft's HoloLens IVAS program. The article discu...
The article discusses the use of reflective/geometric waveguides using LCOS displays in Meta's Hypernova AR/AI glasses and Google's AR glasses. It compares the similarities and differences between the two glasses, and explains the...
The article discusses the upcoming SID Display Week 2025 and focuses on Micro-OLED technology, which is used in optics-see-through (OST) Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. It explains the characteristics of M...
The author is presenting at the Western NY Mini-Symposium on AR/VR and participated in a panel discussion at the SPIE AR/VR/MR 2025. The presentation videos are available online behind SPIE's paywall.
The text discusses the upcoming SID Display Week 2025 in San Jose, CA, and the focus on MicroLED technologies. It covers various companies and their technologies, such as Jade Bird Display, QubeDot, VueReal, Q-Pixel, Porotech, Ray...
The text discusses the upcoming SID Display Week 2025 and the author's plans to cover LCOS-related companies from Display Week 2024. It highlights the advantages of LCOS technology for waveguide AR glasses and discusses various co...
The text discusses Xreal One Pro optics and its connection to Ant-Reality and Google. It covers Xreal's history, the design of the One Pro, its applications, and its connection to Ant-Reality and Google. The text also delves into ...
The author has been asked to partner with the joint MicroLED and AR/VR Connect conference and exhibition in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on September 24-25, 2025. There is also a virtual edition of the Conference on March 6-7, 2025...
The text discusses the concept of disparity correction in the context of AR/VR/MR glasses, focusing on the issues related to frame twisting, binocular disparity, and color disparity. It also mentions the efforts of various compani...
The text discusses the AR/VR/MR 2025 AI Glasses Panel, including the cancellation of Apple's AR glasses program and the success of China's DeepSeek AI software. It also covers the use cases for industrial and consumer applications...
0Halliday AR(not?)/AI Glasses
2025-01-26 •
The text discusses the AR glasses with AI capability showcased at CES and SPIE's AR/VR/MR. It focuses on Halliday's AR/AI glasses, their optical design, and the pros and cons. The author also shares his opinion on the product and ...
The author is attending the AR/VR/MR 2025 conference and plans to write a series of articles based on the combined information from the conference. They will also be a panelist at the conference. The text provides a detailed overv...
0Meta Orion Through the Optics Pictures
2024-12-05 •
The text discusses the Meta Orion glasses and the image quality of Orion's waveguides. It includes pictures of the waveguides and a comparison to other AR/MR products. The author is skeptical of the image quality and criticizes Me...
0Jade Bird Display’s MicroLED Compensation
2024-11-20 •
Jade Bird Display showcased their MicroLED devices at SID Display Week in May 2024. The compensation demo was a highlight, but the author had to wait for a newer demo to report results. JBD's devices have a limited real-time corre...