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A New and Improved OLED Outcoupling Layer is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

One challenge in achieving highly efficient OLEDs is developing means of highly efficient outcoupling. Part of the reason that this has proved difficult is that the desired means needs to be independent of wavelength, …

Microsoft Filed a Patent for Technology to Widen HoloLens FOV

by Andrew Fenn

It has come to light that Microsoft filed a patent back in December 2016 for technology to widen the field of view (FOV) of its HoloLens augmented reality headset. The documentation details a microelectromechanical …

LetinAR Discusses Unique Pin Mirror AR HMD Design

by Matthew Brennesholtz

LetinAR Co., Ltd., a startup Augmented Reality company in Seoul, South Korea, has shown its new design for AR glasses at both CES 2018 in Las Vegas in January and at Mobile World Congress …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Fraunhofer Institute to Debut New Coating Technology Later this Month

by Andrew Fenn

A coating technology for deposition of laterally-graded optical layers on 2D — and in the future, also on 3D — substrates has been developed at Fraunhofer Institute’s Precision Coating business unit in Dresden, Germany. …

Improving the Extraction of Light from OLED’s

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Yutao Qu of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) are developing a microlens array based means for increasing …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Optics| Vol 25 - Issue 18

WaveOptics Announces AR Lens Partnership with EV Group

by Andrew Fenn

WaveOptics, a designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides, has announced a collaboration with EV Group, a supplier of wafer bonding and nano-imprint lithography equipment, to bring AR waveguides — a key optical component for …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 25 - Issue 16

Optovate Comes out of Stealth Mode

by Bob Raikes

So much of being a successful start-up or technology developer is timing. Start too early and you may run out of momentum and money. Start too late and you run the risk of missing …

Tags:MicroLED| OLEDs| Optics| Privacy| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Apple Files a Patent Application for HMD Optical Systems

by Arthur Berman

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently published a patent application filed by Apple that relates to optical systems for Head Mounted Displays (HMDs). While uses in augmented reality HMDs are discussed in the …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Lenses| Optics| Vol 25 - Issue 07

LetinAR Claims Light Optics for AR

by Bob Raikes

LetinAR of Seoul, South Korea, founded in Sept 2016, will show at CES a pair of AR glasses that are claimed to “cause no dizziness even after using them for a long time”. The …

Scientists Show Thin Metalens with Broad Wavelength Band

by Norbert Hildebrand

The new publication ‘A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible‘ by scientists from Harvard (John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as well as the Department of Physics) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Tom’s Hardware Includes Basic Tutorial on VR Lenses

by Bob Raikes

The Tom’s Hardware blog site has published an interesting basic tutorial and description of the challenges in developing lenses for virtual reality systems. The article highlights that new nanotechnologies will be needed to overcome …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01

A Guide to WaveGuides

by Bob Raikes

One of the key technologies for augmented reality headsets is waveguide optics, which guides light from the image source and superimposes an image in front of the viewer’s eye. In our looking around the …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 24 - Issue 45