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The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview of what is happening in VR and AR. There were 175 slides! Before joining Microsoft, he was in the Google Glass team. It took 20 years to go from the brick phone to the … Read more
Dr Hong Choi is CTO of Kopin which is concentrating on AR and VR markets. The company has developed a lot of technology and has 300 patents. It has $90 million in cash and no debt. The company believes it is the leader in the wearable headset displays market. It has wins from Intel/Recon and … Read more
At a standing-room only crowd of 500+ Display Week attendees, Intel’s display guru Achin Bhowmik stunned the crowd of mostly mechanical and electrical engineers, product managers and physicists, by asking them what significant event took place nearly 470 million years ago? He hinted that it was not only relevant to everyone in the room that … Read more
David Fattal is founder and CEO of Leia, a company that was founded to develop holographic displays for mobile devices. The world today has the cloud, connectivity, content and AI and we increasingly rely on the digital world. Who, these days, does a division calculation in their head, he asked? (well I do simple ones, … Read more
Soren Harner is Chief Product Officer of Meta which is at the seed stage after a successful Kickstarter campaign and is based in Redwood Shores in the Bay area. He spoke about how AR can improve our interaction with technology. He believes that there are big behaviour changes coming in the use of displays. The … Read more
Paul Travers is the CEO of Vuzix which makes wearable displays and has been doing this for nearly 20 years. It has offices around the world. Until glasses get through the “Oakley gate” and are acceptable to users as a fashion item, they won’t be very widely adopted, but once you do that, the market … Read more
Pete Jameson is COO of Osterhout Design Group which is a private self-funded company that is based in the centre of San Francisco – with a clean room close to the baseball stadium! The company’s main product is the R-7 glasses which are the result of ten years of development. The glasses have the power … Read more
Victor Viegas is from Immersion which is a company that works in haptics and where he is CEO. It has a licensing model and its technology is in more than three billion devices. It has 2,200 patents, issued and applied for. He first talked about how important touch is to people. He pointed out that … Read more
Pixelligent makes PixClear high index materials that use zirconia nanocrystals which the company claims have very uniform properties and the company claims to be able to achieve 95% transmittance with 80% loading. The company, which was represented by Craig Bandes, President and CEO, has around 40 patents. The materials are used in light extraction applications … Read more
Joel Breton is from HTC where he works on the Vive and is responsible for finding content for the system. He said that VR needs some “killer apps”, like Visicalc on the Apple ][ or the Super mario game on Nintentdo platforms. Gaming is a subset of VR, not the other way around, so the … Read more
Sidney Rosenblatt is the CFO from UDC (introduced as having a market cap of $3 billion) and we have regularly reported on his talks. He said that he saw a single green pixel OLED at SID in 1996 – it takes a long time to get materials to market. The company has 3,600 patents issued … Read more
Christopher Savoie is from Kyulux, in Kyushu, Japan, where he is CEO. The company was founded a year ago, and has funding from a range of VCs as well as Samsung Display, LG Display, JDI and JOLED. However, the project was started a long time ago to build a cluster in Fukuoka for R&D in … Read more
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