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Richard Austin, president of Gamma Scientific, and his colleagues at Gamma Scientific presented paper 72-3 titled “Contrast, Resolution and Parallax Measurements of Near to Eye and Head Up Displays” at the symposium but there was no corresponding paper in the Proceedings. Mr. Austin provided me with a Dropbox URL where both the paper and the … Read more
(Credit: M. Brennesholtz) Meko’s Matt Brennesholtz (i.e. me) opened the AR/VR track at the SID technical symposium with paper 3-1 titled “VR Standards and Guidelines.” This invited paper was well received and had a standing-room only crowd of more than 500 attendees. It was largely based on four Display Daily articles I have posted over … Read more
I was surprised to find there were no papers at the SID symposium on the AR/VR track that address the issue of the ultra-high brightness required for a see-through AR display to compete with high ambient light conditions. Most of the existing AR HMDs are designed for more modest light levels encountered this issue. The … Read more
Douglas Lanman is from Facebook reality Labs/Oculus and he was at the event to talk about AR and VR under the title “Reactive Displays”. He quoted Gabriel Lippmann, who was a photographic pioneer, who set the target of making a “window on the world” that is like a real window and as good. That hasn’t … Read more
VR and AR systems need high-speed displays with short latency in order to provide a good AR or VR experience. This is mostly a problem for LC microdisplays because OLEDs are fundamentally high-speed and OLED microdisplays are typically limited by their backplane design. Backplane designs for OLEDs are dominated by pixel pitch and resolution issues, … Read more
The audience was somewhat sparse at the Immersive Experience Conference (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) On Wednesday of Display Week I attended the Immersive Experience Market Focus Conference, an all-day event. The conference covered, well, immersive experiences both on the large screen such as CAVE and Dome systems and on small screen VR HMD immersion. About half … Read more
At Display Week I had a chance to visit DigiLens in their meeting room on the show floor and talk to Jonathan Waldern, Founder, Chairman & CTO of DigiLens. In addition, he presented paper 17-4, “DigiLens AR HUD Waveguide Technology” in the technical symposium, in association with his two colleagues. (Source: SID 2018 paper 17-4) … Read more
Thirty papers that were presented at the SID Symposium were rated as Distinguished Papers. The original four-page version of each paper is available in the SID proceedings to Display Week symposium attendees. Expanded versions of these papers are available for free to all comers, regardless of whether they went to the symposium or not, through … Read more
eMagin’s 2k x 2k direct patterned OLED microdisplay with 5000 nit output. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) eMagin was exhibiting on the show floor and I visited them to get an update on their near-eye OLED microdisplays intended for AR applications. They were showing their 2k x 2k direct patterned OLED microdisplay in the booth. I believe … Read more
Kopin Corporation was not an exhibitor at Display Week. Instead, it had a suite at the nearby Ritz-Carlton hotel. I had a chance to visit with Stuart Nixdorff on Tuesday morning at 7:00AM. It was a busy week for both of us and that was the time that seemed to work best. First Nixdorff gave … Read more
The Leti booth at the Display Week exhibition. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) Leti is a technology research institute founded in 1967 and is currently a part of CEA Tech. CEA Tech is a French research institute which, much like IMEC in Belgium, Fraunhofer in Germany or ITRI in Taiwan, specializes in partnering with industrial companies for … Read more
This was a record breaking year for the iZone at the annual Society for Information Display Display Week. Launched just seven years ago, the innovation Zone or iZone has grown to almost 50 booths and split into two different sections on the Display week show floor with lots to explore in cutting-edge technology. For example … Read more
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