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Novel LC Metalens Offers Electric Zoom

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Samsung’s SAIT have made a new metalens that can be focused using voltage instead of mechanically moving its components. Metalenses are …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics

Kopin Corporation Announces All-Plastic Pancake® Optics with Excellent Performance

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, announced it has succeeded in developing all-plastic Pancake® optics with breakthrough performance for virtual …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Kopin| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Karl Guttag Tears Down the Nreal Technology in LG headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Karl Guttag has got access to an Nreal-based headset in the form being delivered as a product by LG in Korea and has conducted a detailed three part teardown. He liked …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics

Karl Guttag Impressed by Lumus & Compound Photonics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Karl Guttag, sometime Display Daily contributor and AR/VR specialist, was visited by Lumus which showed him new prototype AR glasses that impressed him with: The display has 2048 x 2048 resolution …

Tags:Augmented Reality| LCOS| Optics| Waveguide Display

Snap is buying WaveOptics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Snap is acquiring WaveOptics of Oxford in the UK for over $500 million in cash and stocks having just announced new glasses using the optics. The new glasses will be limited …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics

Better Calibration to Eliminate Headaches

by Xavier Corbillon

As Tiledmedia’s math guru (not my own words :-), I get to solve the challenging problems. Here’s an interesting one: fisheye calibration. Let me explain. Working with Cosm, we supply client-side technology for a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| 3D Content Creation| Optics| Virtual Displays

Metaform optics point to compact AR/VR glasses and imaging components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a project at the University of Rochester, in the US has developed a fabrication procedure for combining metasurfaces and freeform optics into one optical component, offering designers a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Metasurfaces| Optics

BOE and Himax Announce an Electric Vehicle Design Win

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Himax Technologies and BOE Varitronix put out a press release saying that they had collaborated to “secure a flexible AMOLED automotive display solution design-win with a leading new energy vehicle (“NEV”) …

Tags:Automotive| BOE| Display Drivers| Optics

Apple to Use Hybrid Fresnel Lenses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacRumors reported that respected Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo as forecasting that Apple would use a hybrid Fresnel lens stack (with three lenses per eye) based on optical plastic to minimise weight …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Optics