thanks for the motion sickness, Oculus Rift
— Josh (@nusshkazn) May 31, 2014
Saturday, May 31, 2014
#4: Jason Jerald on VR latency, simulator sickness & presence + Conference highlights from 3DUI, IEEE VR, Neurogaming & SIGGRAPH : In other words Oculus' Latency Expert hasn't the slightest sense of surety that Simulator Sickness can ever be conquered
http://voicesofvr.com/jason-jerald-on-vr-latency-simulator-sickness-presence-conference-highlights-from-3dui-ieee-vr-neurogaming-siggraph/
In the Vein of recent stories like DARPA Weaponizes Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift helps Norwegian Army to drive Tank and Dying Granny uses Oculus Rift to walk outside again
Samsung Oculus VR headset: neat, but not unique
http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/30/samsung-rumored-to-be-working-on-vr-headset-with-oculus/
The company said to be negotiating with Google to supply OLED Microdisplays for the next generation of Google Glass
From a distance the company seems inert. 51% of the company is owned by Photonis Holding who bought in as the company was on the verge of shutting it's doors. The only company I'm sure they supply is DEP Imaging which is a subsidiary of Microoled's parent company. Photonis claims NASA, US Army, Navy, various NATO Defense Ministries as customers but I sure as hell can't come up with one piece of kit from these that use Microoled displays.
eMagin CEO Sculley has on many occasions dismissed Microoled as a viable competitor. Headscratcher.
http://www.microoled.net/
Friday, May 30, 2014
$EMAN #Alert #LongTermBullish 10dMA=$2.67. 20dMA=$2.65. 50dMA=$2.53. 100dMA=$2.67. #200dMA =$2.75. Price=$2.75. pic.twitter.com/JzHlX2RUG0
— Stephen P Kendal (@StephenPKendal) May 30, 2014
What! If Google is ditching Himax for Microoled then that means eMagin is committed to somebody else! Wow! Sorry Ron, I do hate to steal your stuff but WOW!
#oled #Google to use MicroOLED's OLED #microdisplays in next-gen Google Glass? http://t.co/pJHNRY8cKq #wearableoleds
— OLED Info (@oledinfo) May 30, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Krishna Help Us
The Election of Mr. Modi has once more raised that the possibility that a Raytheon & Lockheed Javelin FGM Deal with Indian MOD might be on again, after an on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again series of failed talks between these entities. Please make it stop.
Research and Markets: OLED Microdisplay Market Report 2014
- Why OLED microdisplays are better than LCD or DLP ones
- The disadvantages of OLED microdisplays
- What kind of displays are available on the market today
- New technologies on the horizon
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gx9xjm/oled_microdisplay
Not sure the human mind is ready for Oculus Rift. It made me feel dizzy! Such a disconnect. #LuxVox @PRCoUK http://t.co/0HJJaMz7H6
— Kate Beard (@SBinLondon) May 22, 2014
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" "Call me Ishmael" and soon a line that will be branded into the minds of men from the Gospel According to Luckey, the Hagiography continues, a stunning revelation, "He decided to wear flip-flops."
"Palmer Luckey likes to go barefoot. However, when he met the men who would become his business partners in Oculus VR, a company that was recently sold to Facebook for $2 billion, he decided to wear flip-flops."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/palmer-luckey-and-the-virtual-reality-resurrection-16834760
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
If a certain company had an employee who at a previous job oversaw the development of a strategic system that
Not Waterproof yet and likes to use Google Glass outdoors? A Big Hmm...OLED displays could accomadate on both counts
Brin also talked about how he prefers to use Google Glass outside and when asked about it being waterproof, he simply teased that it’s not waterproof “yet.” The Google cofounder and head Google X leader is still on stage at the event and we’re live blogging it all right here. He just unveiled a self-driving car with no steering wheel, so who knows what’s next.
http://9to5google.com/2014/05/27/sergey-brin-google-glass-will-be-a-commercial-product-this-year-give-or-take/
One of the guys has an Oculus Rift and brought it in. Good lord, the motion sickness http://t.co/VAOHRxycpW
— Joe Hardy (@joehardly) May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Navy picks Creative Microsystems to design next-generation night-vision technology
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2014/05/nextgen-night-vision.html
Saturday, May 24, 2014
This is scary on so many levels if true: The smartest guys in the World are weaponizing a Cell Phone Display taped to their head, they are dazzled by the brilliance of the concept,
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/darpa-is-using-oculus-rift-to-prep-for-cyberwar/
The Oculus Rift is fun, but pretty disorienting. I had some wicked motion sickness after about 10 minutes.
— Picobots (@picobots) May 23, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Head Mounted Display (HMD) Market worth $12.28 Billion by 2020
- BAE Systems Plc. (France)
- Elbit System Limited (U.K.)
- Emagin Corp. (U.S.)
- Epson Corp. (Japan)
- Kopin Corp. (U.S.)
- Optis North America (U.S.)
Buy Ron's Book
Hopefully there's no Sports Illustrated Curse about being on the Cover.
http://www.oled-info.com/services/market-reports/microdisplays/
Oculus Rift is fantastic, but motion sickness and it makes my anxiety kick in.
— Sean 'Shern' Scott (@ShernScott) May 23, 2014
Sure, this looks like something you could plug into a Cell Phone
Report: Samsung's Working on its Own Oculus Rift Rival http://t.co/hNk3F32zjA #gizmo #tech #news #latest
— Rohit Kumar Jena (@rohitrango) May 23, 2014
At the Needham Conference
Samsung sees profits fall in chips, displays
Thursday, May 22, 2014
If Anyone Within the Sound of My Voice Is Going to eMagin's Annual Meeting
In light of this newfound recognition of Simulator Sickness and It's Effects It's Safe To Say... Oculus is
Breaking news : the @oculus is a great car-sickness simulator ! i can't stand it more than a couple of minutes :-/
— Nicolas Lesconnec (@nlesconnec) May 20, 2014
As Dismounted Soldier Training System is Set To Expand Into Homeland Security, State Dept, Healthcare and Probably the Machine Gun Wielding Rambos at the Dept of Agriculture: Living in a House of Mirrors: Intelligent Decisions Taps Dexter Conrad to Join Training & Simulation Team
"He will be responsible for expanding ID’s training and simulation program within the Department of Defense and in civilian agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and Department of State, as well as the healthcare space.
"Yes please, I'll have the Crow"
https://www.fbo.gov/index?id=969ca79bde59fcbde82a9b69b76d4783
Better Stuff, More Quickly: McRaven: SOCOM Cannot Backslide After Afghanistan
"Wherever SOCOM’s missions are after Afghanistan — service leaders have said the military will overall shift its focus to the Asia-Pacific and Africa regions — SOF must be well equipped with the latest technology, McRaven said.
He touted the command’s ability to rapidly acquire cutting edge technology and slice through the red tape that other services often have to face."
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1512#.U3y2oHEUqgs.twitter
DARPA Presumably Will Be Sending Royalty Checks To BAE, Indistinguishable From Q-Warrior, Form Apparently Follows Function: DARPA’s ULTRA-Vis Augments Reality For Foot Troops
Waveguide, no indication of Display type, no bud it is nothing like the Oculus Rift in performance, technology or purpose.
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/darpas-wearable-display-augments-reality-for-foot-troops/
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Pay the man...
Pretty soon, everything in Chuck E. Cheese will be Oculus controlled.
The show, food, games, all of it. But not the vomit. That's real.
— Tyler Johnson (@TyLegacyControl) May 21, 2014
No shit Sherlock: If eMagin and Vuvix were the VR Pioneers Oculus and their minions are Custer and the 7th Cavalry: When you die in VR, you could get sick in real life: The challenges of Eve: Valkyrie
"It can be hard to read text while wearing a virtual reality headset, and at any rate reading information takes a few fractions of a second that you don’t want to give up in battle. "It’s better to use symbols; everything is moving so fast it’s better to be able to instantly recognize things," O’Brien said.
They also found out it’s disorienting when your virtual body doesn’t match what your real body is doing. Your brain doesn’t know how to deal with your in-game avatar moving its arms and flipping switches while your real arms remain stationary. Imagine phantom limb syndrome, but in reverse.
The trick is to create something that makes the player uncomfortable and unsettled, but without making them feel physically ill. Dying in the game should be shocking, but not to the extent that it makes one unable to play. They're even discussing how to explain the minimum system requirements to play the game, as things become very uncomfortable when played under 60 frames-per-second. You don't need to just be able to run the game, but to run it smoothly to avoid sickness in the player."
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/14/5716632/eve-valkyrie-oculus-morpheus-sickness
Turn your mobile into a VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET: £40 harness uses phone's sensors to track movement and play games "Damn, I could have spent 40 Euro and not $2 Billion to make one of these!"
Poland's entry into the Dive Mask HMD sweepstakes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2634943/Turn-mobile-VIRTUAL-REALITY-HEADSET-40-harness-uses-phones-sensors-track-movement-play-games.html
@PopMech: What’s Oculus Rift? - a class of head mounted displays noted for reliably inducing nausea in victims
— Tim Craig (@elasticus) May 19, 2014
Just had a go with @oculus at work - a little bit freaky! I am feeling the motion sickness!
— Kylie Bulling (@kyliebulling) May 21, 2014
The Hagiography of the Idiot Savant and The Vomit Machine Rolls On, what a Bunch of Melodramatic Bullshit: Opening: "As he flew from Orange County to Seattle..." How about "In a World where somebody would pay you $2 Billion for a Cellphone Display Duct taped to your head..."
with a Big Lie stirred into the gruel. Never was Simulator Sickness a problem for Vuzix or eMagin. It IS a huge problem for the Oculus Rift, one that cannot be overcome as currently designed.
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Pay The Man
Won't know whether nausea is from VR or the food.. MT @kevinroose Chuck E. Cheese putting Oculus Rift in restaurants. http://t.co/aJSbGngkNM
— John Schwartz — NYT (@jswatz) May 20, 2014
Binoc for Exelis ISS, eMagin Inside to Combine Night Vision With Data and Video Transmission and Recording
Exelis booth1523 wearable tech #SOFIC pic.twitter.com/4GtGphQXks
— NDIA (@NDIAToday) May 20, 2014
The Previous PR reporting the stop shipment to three defense companies
"As we announced during the first quarter, we received notifications to stop shipments from three customers pending a review of possible interconnect problems. Our investigation says that the three customers have a similar issue, but each resulted from different mechanisms. One customer had a few failures over many thousands of displays shipped. This was our largest display volume, largest runner.
And obviously the customer is interested in using OLED or safe to say you would not call that company a customer. That statement indicates that the customer is new to the device they are building or use a different display system in a currently fielded device. Neither of those possibilities give me the slightest inkling what the hell the device is he is talking about.
""The third customer has a very high environmental requirement that goes beyond our maximum rating. However, the customer is very interested in using OLED.
Head Mounted Display (HMD) Market worth $12.28 Billion by 2020
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2014-05/30334677-head-mounted-display-hmd-market-worth-dollar-12-28-billion-by-2020-008.htm
Changing Missions Means New Equipment Needs for Special Operators May 2014 By Stew Magnuson
They are coming from Intevac with eMagin OLED displays. Demoed at SPIEDSS in Baltimore week before last.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/May/Pages/ChangingMissionsMeansNewEquipmentNeedsforSpecialOperators.aspx
Monday, May 19, 2014
i tried the oculus rift at the maker's faire today. im still dizzy.
— Ryoma M.S. (@RyomaMS) May 18, 2014
Chris Grayson at Giganti offers some interesting speculation on the pending Beats acquisition by Apple
http://gigantico.squarespace.com/
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Rumor: Remington is ditching the 2020
The next version of Google Glass is reportedly already in development Google Glass 2 is in the works
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/portable-devices/the-next-version-of-google-glass-is-reportedly-already-in-development-1248697
Also, god forbid those chickens have motion sickness like me, who almost fainted after 20 sec wearing the oculus rift
— Jeannette Vaught (@JeannetteVaught) May 18, 2014
"because you can’t immerse people as much in the environment then if you don’t have the entire real world blocked out,” Quarles said:NSF Spends $195K to Study Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Physical Rehab
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Tried oculus rift in class. Despite the motion sickness I felt afterwards, it was fun. Amazed with the advancement of VR technology nowaday.
— Tanti (@tanti_kk) May 14, 2014
Just had my first shot on Oculus Rift. Awesome but I can see why people get sick #oculusrift #redbull #cliffdiving pic.twitter.com/WPJEsbp0fE
— Graeme Lennox (@CarHack) May 13, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Google acquires Word Lens app recently featured in Apple’s iPhone ad “Powerful”
http://9to5mac.com/2014/05/16/google-acquires-word-lens-app-recently-featured-in-apples-iphone-ad-powerful/
Let's evolve into AMOLED displays shall we?
@ishmael5 It's still the early days for Glass and it's always evolving. We'll be here if you have any questions down the road.
— Google Glass (@googleglass) May 16, 2014
Revisit Fraunhofer's PR on High Brightness OLED Microdisplays
Fraunhofer COMEDD in collaboration with its partner Orthogonal Inc. (Rochester, NY) explores novel approach for OLED micro-structuring, which is called Orthogonal Photolithography. "Orthogonal Photolithography is a patented technology, which allows direct patterning of organic material on CMOS-backplanes.", explains Dr. Alexander Zakhidov, leader of the development group. "So, high-resolution OLED microdisplays for head-mounted displays and data eye-glasses with brightness of 5000 cd/m² are now possible." Such high brightness micro-displays are required for augmented reality applications where the virtual image has to blend in smoothly with the daylight environment."
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Well said
"The problem of virtual reality lies in its uniqueness. It is made so that it can be amended in any way and taste, virtual reality, amuse us, fills our day, delivers us everything we need. With just a few clicks and we little by little become passive limited individual who lives in the virtual world, because it can be a world created by our ideals and visions, and can be more easily modified than the real world. Not all people reach this stage of addiction, but at this rate soon technology and virtualization will become an indispensable part of life for all people with access to them. The virtual world is so unique and perfect that we live in him and thus forget what actually constitutes the real world."
Trying to think of applications for Microdisplays in Head Mounted Display that require greater operating temperature than what is currently available in eMagin Displays
Where are the environmental conditions more harsh than the deserts of the Middle East or the Mountains of Afghanistan or a submerged Thermal Weapons Sight in the Philippine jungle? eMagin mentioned a company who required a display that had more stringent environmental requirements than they could spec out but still wanted OLED displays. Honeywell is a current eMagin customer who make a system called Fire Warrior which is a direct view monocular display, not nearly the FOV or availble symbology in a mask like above. How about high contrast and brightness while looking at an out of control fire? An AR system like this would definitely enhance Situational Awareness. A possibility where wide operating range is imperative. Just a guess.
http://www.tuvie.com/c-thru-smoke-diving-helmet-future-vision-of-fire-fighting-equipment-by-omer-haciomeroglu/