What They Say
SPIE.org published an article that summarises developments in AR and emphasises that the technology is not new, but has been around for 50 years or so in some applications. The writer gets comments from a number of industry players including Bernard Kress, principal optical architect at Microsoft.
What We Think
This is a reasonable article, but it doesn’t reveal anything that regular readers or industry participants will not already know. The article references the challenges in optics and that combined with the time of year, reminded me of one of my favourite Display Daily articles (VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus). The article was published five years ago, but much of it is still very relevant. I bumped into the author, Karl Guttag, around a year ago at CES, I think and he said that he thought it was time to update the article, so I must remind him of that! (BR)
Karl gave me this graphic five years ago. Click for higher resolution.
