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2026 6

  1. AR in 2026 Year In Review Presentation (Part 1: AR Challenges)
  2. MicroLED + AR/VR Connect and Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)
  3. Silicon Carbide Waveguides Pros and Cons
  4. “Transparent” Near-to-Eye Displays
  5. MicroLED & AR/VR Connect in Eindhoven, Sept. 2026, and Recap of AWE 2026
  6. CES & AR/VR/MR 2026 Quick Takeaways (Part 1: Android/Google XR and Meta)

2025 21

  1. AR Conferences 2026 and Laser Display
  2. Meta Ray-Ban Display Part 1 (Lumus Waveguide, OmniVision LCOS, and Goertek Projection Engine)
  3. Meta Ray-Ban AR Glasses Show Lumus Waveguide Structures in Leaked Video
  4. Voices of VR Interview 2023 & MicroLED-AR/VR Connect Conference 2025
  5. Snap Spectacles at CES, AR/VR/MR, & AWE 2025, Consumer Product in 2026
  6. My AWE AR/AI Glasses Presention Video
  7. Google XR Glasses Using Google’s Raxium MicroLEDs While Waveguide Lab Sold to Vuzix
  8. TMS9918, The First Sprite Chip – Presentation at VCF SouthWest
  9. Exclusive – Playnitride Single Chip Full Color MicroLED & Lumus Waveguide with a “Fantasically Tiny Projector”
  10. Exclusive: Rivet Industries Using Lumus Waveguides for Military & Industrial AR
  11. Meta Hypernova and Google AR/AI Glasses – Lumus & Avegant Inside, Both Using LCOS MicroDisplays
  12. SID Display Week 2024 – Micro-OLED and Optics
  13. Presenting at Western NY Mini-Symposium on AR/VR Thurday April 24th and SPIE AR/VR/MR 2025 Panel Video
  14. SID Display Week 2024 – MicroLEDs for AR
  15. SID Display Week 2024 – LCOS
  16. XReal One Pro Optics and Its Connections to Ant-Reality and Google
  17. MicroLED & AR/VR Connect in Eindhoven 24-25 September 2025 (and March 6-7 Virtual Conference)
  18. Disparity Correction Has Become Important All of a Sudden – Plus some on Binocular Color Difference (Snap & JBD)
  19. AR/VR/MR 2025 AI Glasses Panel (Also Apple AR Glasses Cancelled? & DeepSeek)
  20. Halliday AR(not?)/AI Glasses
  21. SPIE AR/VR/MR 2025 Next Week (with comments on CES, Display Week, & AWE)

2024 32

  1. Meta Orion Through the Optics Pictures
  2. Jade Bird Display’s MicroLED Compensation
  3. AR Roundtable Video Part 3: Meta’s Orion, Wristband, Apps, & Walled Garden
  4. AR Roundtable Video Part 2: Meta Orion Technology and Application Issues
  5. Meta Orion (Pt. 3 Response to Meta CTO on Eye Glow and Transparency)
  6. Snap Spectacles 5 and Meta Orion Roundtable Video Part 1
  7. Meta Orion AR (Pt. 2B Corrections On Two Sided Waveguides)
  8. Meta Orion AR (Pt. 2 Orion vs Wave Optics/Snap and Magic Leap Waveguides)
  9. Meta Orion AR Glasses (Pt. 1 Waveguides)
  10. Canon R5 Mk ii In-Camera (Dumb) Upscaling Versus R5’s Pixel Shift (Part 2)
  11. Canon R5 Mk ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res. – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?
  12. Even Realities G1: Minimalist AR Glasses with Integrated Prescription Lenses
  13. AWE 2024 VR – Hypervision, Sony XR, Big Screen, Apple, Meta, & LightPolymers
  14. AWE 2024 Panel: The Current State and Future Direction of AR Glasses
  15. Hypervision: Micro-OLED vs. LCD – And Why the Apple Vision Pro is “Blurry”
  16. Cogni Trax & Why Hard Edge Occlusion Is Still Impossible (Behind the Magic Trick)
  17. Brilliant Labs Frame AR with AI Glasses & a Little More on the Apple Vision Pro
  18. Apple Vision Pro Discussion Video by Karl Guttag and Jason McDowall
  19. CES & AR/VR/MR 2024 (Part 4: Non-Display Devices, Holograms & Light Fields)
  20. Mixed Reality at CES & AR/VR/MR 2024 (Part 3 Display Devices)
  21. Mixed Reality at CES & AR/VR/MR 2024 (Part 2 Mostly Optics)
  22. 2024 Solar Eclipse Photos (Real Reality)
  23. Mixed Reality at CES and the AR/VR/MR 2024 Video (Part 1 – Headset Companies)
  24. Apple Vision Pro – Influencing the Influencers & “Information Density”
  25. Apple Vision Pro Displays the Same Image Differently Depending on the Application
  26. Apple Vision Pro’s Optics Blurrier & Lower Contrast than Meta Quest 3
  27. Apple Vision Pro’s (AVP) Image Quality Issues – First Impressions
  28. Spreadsheet “Breaks” The Apple Vision Pro’s (AVP) Eye-Tracking/Foveation & the First Through-the-optics Pictures
  29. Apple Vision Pro (AVP), It Begins and iFixit’s “Extreme Unboxing”
  30. CES (Pt. 3), Xreal, BMW, Ocutrx, Nimo Planet, Sightful, and LetinAR
  31. CES (Pt. 2), Sony XR, DigiLens, Vuzix, Solos, Xander, EverySight, Mojie, TCL color µLED
  32. Updates, CES, AR/VR/MR, LA SID Conference, Apple Vision Pro Ordered

2023 27

  1. Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam
  2. Apple Vision Pro Part 6 – Passthrough Mixed Reality (PtMR) Problems
  3. Apple Vision Pro (Part 5C) – More on Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous
  4. Apple Vision Pro (Part 5B) – More on Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous.
  5. Apple Vision Pro (Part 5A) – Why Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous
  6. Apple Vision Pro (Part 4) – Hypervision Pancake Optics Analysis
  7. Apple Vision Pro (Part 3) – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies On a Plane
  8. Apple Vision Pro (Part 2) – Hardware Issues
  9. Apple Vision Pro (Part 1) – What Apple Got Right Compared to The Meta Quest Pro
  10. Slides From Presentation at AWE 2023 on Optical versus Passthrough MR
  11. Interview on The AR Show Podcast about Apple’s MR/XR & Presenting at AWE 2023
  12. Display Daily Senior Analyst, SID Display Information Article, & Speaking at AWE
  13. DigiLens, Lumus, Vuzix, Oppo, & Avegant Optical AR (CES & AR/VR/MR 2023 Pt. 8)
  14. Meta Quest Pro (Part 2) – Block Diagrams & Teardown of Headset and Controller
  15. MicroLEDs with Waveguides (CES & AR/VR/MR 2023 Pt. 7)
  16. Cambridge Mechatronics and poLight Optics Micromovement (CES/PW Pt. 6)
  17. AR Longan Vision AR for First Responders (CES – AR/VR/MR 2023 Pt. 5)
  18. CES & AR/VR/MR Pt. 4 – FlexEnable’s Dimming, Electronic Lenses, & Curved LCDs
  19. CES 2023 – Arovia’s Portable Convertible Front and Rear Screen Projector
  20. CES 2023 SadlyItsBradley Videos Part 1-4 and Meta Leak Controversy
  21. CES 2023 SadlyIsBradley and KGOnTech Joint Review Video Series (Part 1)
  22. CES 2023 (4) – VoxelSensors 3D Perception, Fast and Accurate
  23. CES 2023 (Part 3) – Addoptics Custom Optics (Better than Luxexcel=Meta?)
  24. Apple Indefinitely Delays AR Product (Bloomberg Report)
  25. CES 2023 (Part 2) – Porotech – The Most Advanced MicroLED Technology
  26. CES 2023 (Part 1) – Meta Materials’ Breakthrough Dimming Technology
  27. Meta Quest Pro (Part 1) – Unbelievably Bad AR Passthrough

2022 16

  1. Apple Bought Limbak (SadlyItsBradley)
  2. Limbak Bought by “Large US Company”
  3. Meta Buys Luxexcel
  4. Niantic Outdoor Reference Using Lumus Waveguide – and Meeting at CES 2023
  5. Mathew Olson’s New AR and VR Newsletter – Virtual Vector
  6. AWE 2022 (Part 7) Video – Magic Leap 2 with some Hololens 2
  7. AWE 2022 (Part 6) – MicroLED Microdisplays for Augmented Reality
  8. AWE 2022 Review/Discussion Video Part 5
  9. AWE 2022 Video Review – KGOnTech YouTube (with SadlyItsBradley)
  10. Attending AWE 2022 and NYAR “Debate” Video
  11. “The Great AR Display Debate” with Jeri Ellsworth on April 11th and Back to the Blog
  12. Speaking at SID LA Chapter One Day Symposium February 17th, 2022
  13. US Mortgage Rates vs. Inflation (off topic)
  14. Microsoft Hololens Reportedly in Trouble, Another “One and Done” for Microvision?
  15. Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/MR 2022
  16. Exclusive: Snap Buying Compound Photonics (LCOS and MicroLED)

2021 27

  1. Exclusive: Imagine Optix Bought By Meta – Half Dome 3’s Varifocal Tech – Meta, Valve, and Apple on Collision Course?
  2. Meta’s Cambria (Part 2): Is It Half Dome 3?
  3. Meeting Up at CES 2022 and AR/VR/MR in January 2022
  4. Meta (aka Facebook) Cambria Electrically Controllable LC Lens for VAC?
  5. AWE 2021 Part 2: Laser Scanning – Oqmented, Dispelix, and ST Micro
  6. AWE 2021 Part 1 – Tilt-5 Was Magical
  7. Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 3): Soft Edge Occlusion, a Solution for Investors and Not Users
  8. AWE 2021 Santa Clara Convention Center November 9-11 – I’m Going
  9. Magic Leap 2 (Pt. 2): Possible Answers from Patent Applications
  10. Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise, Really? Plus Another $500M
  11. Amazon Glow – Fake Images and a Questionable Concept
  12. EyeWay Vision Part 3: Analysis
  13. News: WaveOptics & Jade Bird Display MicroLED Partnership
  14. Exclusive: EyeWay Vision Part 2: Through the Optics Pictures
  15. Exclusive: EyeWay Vision Part 1: Foveated Laser Scanning Display
  16. DigiLens Visit
  17. Nreal Teardown: Part 3, Pictures Through the Lens
  18. Nreal Teardown: Part 2, Detailed Look Inside
  19. Nreal Teardown: Part 1, Clones and Birdbath Basics
  20. Exclusive: Lumus Maximus 2K x 2K Per Eye, >3000 Nits, 50° FOV with Through-the-Optics Pictures
  21. Exclusive: Snap Spectacles Appears to Be Using WaveOptics and [an LCOS] a DLP Display
  22. AR Show Interview of Karl Guttag (Part 2) – Mapping AR Displays to Suitable Optics
  23. The AR Show: Karl Guttag On The Attack of the Clones and Magic Leap’s Wasted Opportunity (part1)
  24. GameStop, “Hold My Beer,” says Augmented Reality Companies
  25. Mira – From <$20 Fishbowl To New Mario Kart Ride at Universal Japan (In About 4 years)
  26. KGOnTech Video Presentations On Augmented Reality
  27. Presenting at AR/VR Creators Meetup Thursday, Jan. 14th at 2:00 PM PDT

2020 19

  1. Speaking (Virtually) at New York Augmented Reality Meetup Monday, Dec 14th at 6:30 PM EST
  2. Updated the Website – Apologies for the Errant Notifications
  3. Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 6: Microsoft’s FUD on Photographs)
  4. Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 5: Poor Intensity Control)
  5. Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 4: LBS Optics)
  6. Hololens Display Evaluation (Part 3: Color Uniformity)
  7. Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 2: Comparison to Hololens 1)
  8. Hololens 2 Display Evaluation (Part 1: LBS Visual Sausage Being Made)
  9. Apple Glass Leak (Part 3) – Revenue Streams, There Has to be a Camera, and All-Day Wear
  10. AWE On-Line Conference May 26th to 29th
  11. Analyzing Apple Glass Leak (Part 2) – Akonia Waveguide with an LCOS MicroDisplay
  12. Analyzing Front Page Tech’s Apple Glass Leak and Asking the Right Questions
  13. Teardown Shows Microvision Inside Hololens 2
  14. Microsoft Denies They are Buying Microvision
  15. Florida Independent Says Microvision Acquisition will be Announced May 12, 2020 [Microsoft Denies Rumor on May 12, 2012]
  16. Microvision Worth More Dead Than Alive – Stock Jumps 147% in a Day
  17. Magic Leap Starts to Auger-In with ~3.7X the Money as Theranos – I Tried to Warn Everyone
  18. Hololens 2: How Bad Having Tried It?
  19. Great New Book on AR/MR/XR Displays

2019 22

  1. Hololens 2, Not a Pretty Picture
  2. CES 2020 Meeting and Commuting
  3. The Lack of Apple AR Patents and Apple’s Leveraging the AIA’s PTAB “Banana Republic” Courts
  4. Hololens 2 (HL2): “Scan Lines” Making Text Hard to Read and Quality Issues with Waveguides
  5. Apple AR Patent Clutter and Hiding AR Patents
  6. Magic Leap 2, Many Unsold ML1s, Mortgaging Patents, & Needing More Money
  7. All Magic Leap Patents Have Apparently Been Assigned To J.P. Chase Morgan As Collateral
  8. Hololens 2 Is Shipping, But Not Really That Many
  9. Starts with Ray-Ban®, Ends Up Like Hololens
  10. Saying “Moore’s Law or Apple” Does Not Make AR a Consumer Product
  11. Samsung AR Design Patent – What’s Inside
  12. FOV: AR and The View of the Real World
  13. Busting, Sony’s Ghostbusters AR Display (and a Little Sprite History)
  14. Hololens 2 Video with Microvision “Easter Egg” Plus Some Hololens and Magic Leap Rumors
  15. FOV Obsession
  16. “Why is making good AR displays so hard?” Article by Daniel Wagner, the CTO of Daqri
  17. Hololens 2 First Impressions: Good Ergonomics, But The LBS Resolution Math Fails!
  18. Hololens 2 is Likely Using Laser Beam Scanning Display: Bad Combined with Worse
  19. CES 2019 – Nreal
  20. Photonics West 2019 – I Will Be There Feb 3rd through the 6th
  21. CES 2019 – AR and Other Interesting Display Technology
  22. Jon Peddie Article: Famous Graphics Chips: TI TMS34010 and VRAM

2018 35

  1. CES Commuting Tips, Leveraging the Monorail (A Shortcut to/from LVCC and Sands Expo)
  2. Meeting At CES 2019
  3. Evergaze’s seeBoost for Real “Magic” for People with Low Vision
  4. Varjo Foveated Display and Passthrough AR at AWE 2018
  5. North’s Focals Laser Beam Scanning AR Glasses – “Color Intel Vaunt”
  6. Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Lumus Resolution “Shootout” (ML1 review part 3)
  7. Magic Leap Review Part 2 – Image Issues
  8. Magic Leap Review Part 1 – The Terrible View Through Diffraction Gratings
  9. Wired UK: Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?
  10. One Thing Palmer Luckey May Have Gotten Half-Wrong in His “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”
  11. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”
  12. iFixit’s Magic Leap One Teardown Confirms KGOnTech’s Analysis From November 2016
  13. Joining RAVN as Chief Science Officer
  14. Magic Leap Livestream 02 Gives Up Some Clues
  15. I will be at AWE 2018 in Santa Clara
  16. Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz Responds KGOnTech And Dodges Questions
  17. Made #1 on Hacker News – Website Problems Hopefully Resolved
  18. “The Magic Leap One Experience” (Part 2, ML1’s Terrible View of the Real World)
  19. “The Magic Leap One Experience” (Part 1, View Simulator Build)
  20. Karl Guttag Interview Parts 2 and 3 On The AR Show Podcast
  21. Interview On The AR Show Podcast
  22. Magic Leap New Patent Applications
  23. Magic Leap One – FOV and Tunnel Vision
  24. 2018 CES Haier Laser Projector Watch – (Wrist Projector Scams Revisited)
  25. Hype-to-English Translation Of Magic Leap’s Recode Interview
  26. Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed
  27. Intel AR Glasses Follow Up
  28. Lucyd – ICO Scheme Wrapped Around Worthless AR Patents
  29. Intel AR “Fixer-Upper” For Sale? Only $350M ???
  30. CES 2018 Part 2 (Aftermarket Heads Up Display – HUD)
  31. Magic Leap – How Rigged Was The Rolling Stone Demo?
  32. CES 2018 (Part 1 – AR Overview)
  33. Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display (FSD) – “The Big Con” at the “Core”
  34. Magic Leap House of Cards – FSD, Waveguides, and Focus Planes
  35. Magic Leap Display Developments Revealed in 2017 – Part 1

2017 20

  1. Magic Leap – Before The Rolling Stone Reveal
  2. Magic Leap One – Fake News?
  3. 2013 Magic Leap “Confidential” Presentation
  4. Magic Leap One – Instant Analysis
  5. Meeting at CES 2018 and Blog Format Update
  6. Samsung 150-inch Micro-LED TV Prototype to be at CES 2018
  7. Microvision (MVIS) Replaces CEO – A Soothsayer’s Retrospective
  8. Speaking at The Display Summit Oct 4-5th
  9. Collimation, Etendue, Nits (Background for Understanding Brightness)
  10. Mira Prism and Dreamworld AR – (What Disney Should Have Done?)
  11. Disney-Lenovo AR Headset – (Part 1 Optics)
  12. Varjo Foveated Display Part 2 – Region Sizes
  13. Texas Instruments 99/4A and TMS9918 History
  14. Varjo Foveated Display (Part 1)
  15. VAC By Oculus and Microsoft . . . Everywhere and Nowhere
  16. Near Eye Displays (NEDs): Gaps In Pixel Sizes
  17. Avegant “Light Field” Display – Magic Leap at 1/100th the Investment?
  18. Near-Eye Bird Bath Optics Pros and Cons – And IMMY’s Different Approach
  19. CES 2017 AR, What Problem Are They Trying To Solve?
  20. ODG R-8 and R-9 Optic with a OLED Microdisplays (Likely Sony’s)

2016 26

  1. Microvision Laser Beam Scanning: Everything Old Is New Again
  2. Everything VR & AR Podcast Interview with Karl Guttag About Magic Leap
  3. ODG R-9: A Peak Behind the Video Curtain
  4. ODG R-9 (Horizon): 1080p Per Eye, Yes Really
  5. Kopin Entering OLED Microdisplay Market
  6. Magic Leap and Hololens and LCOS
  7. Meeting At CES 2017 January 5th to 8th
  8. Magic Leap: Focus Planes (Too) Are a Dead End
  9. Evergaze: Helping People See the Real World
  10. Magic Leap CSI: Display Device Fingerprints
  11. Magic Leap: Are Parts of Their NDAs Now Unenforceable?
  12. Magic Leap Shout Out?: Grumpy Mouse Tech Blogger Here
  13. Magic Leap: “The Information” Article
  14. Magic Leap & Hololens: Waveguide Ego Trip?
  15. Magic Leap: When Reality Hits the Fan
  16. Magic Leap – Fiber Scanning Display Follow UP
  17. Magic Leap – No Fiber Scan Display (FSD)
  18. Magic Leap – Separating Magic and Reality
  19. Magic Leap Video – Optical Issues and a Resolution Estimate
  20. Magic Leap – The Display Technology Used in their Videos
  21. Magic Leap “A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma”
  22. AR/MR Combiners Part 2 – Hololens
  23. AR/MR Optics for Combining Light for a See-Through Display (Part 1)
  24. Near Eye AR/VR and HUD Metrics For Resolution, FOV, Brightness, and Eyebox/Pupil
  25. Wrist Projector Scams – Ritot, Cicret, the new eyeHand
  26. Laser Beam Scanning Versus Laser-LCOS Resolution Comparison

2015 10

  1. Celluon Laser Beam Scanning Power Consumption (Over 6 Watts at 32 Lumens)
  2. Celluon/Sony/Microvision Optical Path
  3. Lenovo’s STMicro Based Prototype Laser Projector (part 1)
  4. IRIS HUD on Indiegogo Appears to be Repackaged Pioneer HUD(s)
  5. Celluon LBS Analysis Part 2B – “Never In-Focus Technology” Revisit
  6. Celluon Laser Beam Steering Analysis Part 2 – “Never In-Focus Technology”
  7. Celluon Laser Beam Scanning Projector Technical Analysis – Part 1
  8. HMD – A huge number of options
  9. Desperately Seeking the Next Big Thing – Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) — Part 1
  10. I’m Back

2014 2

  1. Navdy Launches Pre-Sale Campaign Today
  2. Highway1 Incubator

2013 11

  1. “If you haven’t tested it, it doesn’t work”
  2. Whatever happened to pico projectors embedding in phones?
  3. Himax FSC LCOS in Google Glass — Seeking Alpha Article
  4. Extended Temperature Range with LC Based Microdisplays
  5. AR Display Device of the Future: Color Filter, Field Sequential, OLED, LBS and other?
  6. Kopin Displays and Near Eye (Followup to Seeking Alpha Article)
  7. Laser Illumination Could Cause LCOS to Win Out Over OLED in Near Eye AR
  8. Google Glass Is Using Field Sequential Color (FSC) LCOS (Likely Himax)
  9. Google Glass and Himax Whirlwind
  10. New Google Glass Design Likely Uses a Transmissive Panel
  11. Google Glass Prototype Using Color Filter LCOS

2012 16

  1. Sony and Sumitomo
  2. Lasers – DGL, SHG, and Hybrid
  3. Soothsayer 7: Microvision’s Obfuscations Causing a Buzzing Sound
  4. Augmented Reality and Google Project Glass Part 2
  5. Soothsayer 6: Microvision’s Lance Evans “Green lasers alone are $200 each now”
  6. Augmented Reality / Head Mounted Displays (Part 1 Real or Not?)
  7. Soothsayer 5: Thanks for the “Shout Out” on the Microvision Conference Call!
  8. Soothsayer 4: Questions for Microvision’s Conference Call
  9. TI DLP® “Diamond” Pixel
  10. Answering Questions on Laser with LCOS and LBS
  11. Laser with LCOS is Focus Free — Yes Really!
  12. Exclusive: New Pictures of Projected Images by Syndiant’s 720p LCOS Panel
  13. QP Lightpad™ And Future Observations
  14. CES 2012 Pico Projector Overview
  15. Cynic’s Guild to CES — Measuring Resolution
  16. Cynics Guide to CES – Glossary of Terms

2011 13

  1. Looking Ahead To CES and Future Articles
  2. Direct Diode Green Lasers (Part 2, Chromaticity)
  3. “Soothsayer” Part 3 – Where Does the LBS Power Go?
  4. “False Soothsayer?” Part 2
  5. Microvision’s “Soothsayer(?)” for their “Number One Question”
  6. Pico Projector “Use Model” (Part 3 – Raison d’être)
  7. Diode Green Lasers (Part 1, Wavelength and Efficiency)
  8. Meet with Karl Guttag at CES 2012
  9. Why I started the blog and other things
  10. Being Useful (Part 2 – Ambient Light)
  11. About the blog and planned series on laser projection
  12. First, Be Useful (Home computers and Pico Projectors)
  13. Welcome to Karl Guttag on Technology