Enlarge, Cut Out and Wear Around Home or Office https://www.google.co.jp/patents/US20120182206 |
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Some Eastman-Kodak Grads with a design for an Immersive HMD that reduces the 'propensity" for Motion Sickness inherent in other (not mentioning any names Oculus Samsung) HMDs
Head mounted display market: global industry analysis and forecast 2020 outlined in new market research report...Yeah, I'm sick of these too but they keep pumping them out
Monday, March 30, 2015
The Future of Screens: Why OLED Will Change Everything
http://blogfactory.co.uk/archives/3514
Sunday, March 29, 2015
What do you think? Is Sculley Alluding to a Licensing Deal, Partnership or Buyout? Because as eMagin Investors We KNOW in our Heart of Hearts These Very Fine Entrepreneurs Will NEVER Produce Displays in the Millions in Their Little E. Fishkill Workshop ("Our displays and headset will be valuable")
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
"Oh, It's Lousy Every Day" Feel Ya Bro
"Do you know what OLED stands for?"
"Oh, it's lousy every day."
"Talking about our show? No, organic light emitting dee odd."
@JoeandEvan
— McClutherness (@bmitchelf) March 27, 2015
Take that Oculus... eMagin will be shipping "something" too in small quantities in 2015! We anticipate
Headsets (“HMDs”) Our Z800 3DVisors™ headset was discontinued in 2014 and will be replaced with our Immersive Head Mounted Display (IHMD), which we anticipate will be available in small quantities in 2015.
Facebook Announces Virtual Reality Games Are Coming In 2015
"You are going to be able to play VR Games on SOMETHING shipped by Oculus this year."
http://790talknow.com/foxfeedspro/details/item_189678/facebook-announces-virtual-reality-games-are-coming-in-2015/
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Biggest Challenges Left In Virtual Reality, According To Oculus
Even in the impressive Crescent Bay prototype, you’ve only got a 90-degree field of vision, while your eyes are normally capturing 280 degrees. To remove this “binocular” effect (and any visible pixels in your vision), you’d need better lenses and a display with a resolution higher than even Apple’s new Retina 5K iMac, which starts at $2,499. It’s not hard to imagine Oculus getting closer to that ideal spec over the next several years, but it’ll happen with gradual iteration and improvement (and will require early adopters to keep buying high-end rigs for development and gaming).
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/the-biggest-challenges-left-in-virtual-reality-according-to-oculus/
No, you need new hardware type
To clarify: I love the potential of The Oculus Rift, but everything 1st person so far has made me nauseous. We need new game types #gamedev
— DefRoboGames (@defiantrobot) March 25, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Erik Lundstrom is the CEO of Penny, Makers of Interactive C-Wear AR Glasses, They Use eMagin SVGA (800X600) Displays, Scania is a Manufacturer of Trucks and Buses
Meeting with Scania yesterday regarding their plans to use AR Glasses for service and in their production line.
— Erik Lundström (@Pennyyeswear) March 25, 2015
Top Stories: Facebook's Oculus Rift demo hints at VR's future - USA TODAY: USA TODAYFacebook's Oculus Rift dem... http://t.co/8YKbJZ0QDC
— earthquakes feed (@earthquakesfeed) March 25, 2015
Illuminati, Satanist, Mind Control Machinist Lays Out Plan for World's Subjugation ( The Future will make you nauseous, woozy, dizzy and sick)
Zuckerberg: “The future is in Virtual Reality” http://t.co/LtCvFgSESm
— UPLOAD VR (@UploadVR) March 25, 2015
3 out of four devices mentioned have eMagin displays the other TWS has a goodly number
.#Infantry magazine says Lithium batteries extend ops 500%, cuts wgt 600%. #PowerUpProperly http://t.co/7TJCgqdcGs pic.twitter.com/CSuopKOwAc
— PEO Soldier (@PEOSoldier) March 25, 2015
Don't Know Who M. Slater Is But This Sounds Like Complete Horseshit... but If Andrew Sculley Can Be Convinced He's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates It's Worth a Try
#IEEEVR M. Slater "We have always thought of VR as a way to get somewhere else, but we can also be someone else!" pic.twitter.com/djAD1SvBX0
— Sebastien 'Cb' Kuntz (@SebKuntz) March 25, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Endorsed By eMagin Investors Everywhere
Experiencing the Virtual Reality Game That Relieves Anxiety Attacks http://t.co/zJO4u9kYyA pic.twitter.com/2Zszqjr1kb
— VICE Gaming (@VICEGaming) March 24, 2015
"What do you think Derek?" "Oh , for sure, uninvent it, do it last week"
Cool. Made myself sick from an Oculus demo already! Blech.
— Derek Young (@derekyoung81) March 24, 2015
Yes Mark, What Exactly IS the Plan for Oculus? "Well, we can't decide whether we should reinvent it, uninvent it or disinvent it."..Facebook Rumors Abound As F8 Begins: What's The Plan For Oculus, Messenger And WhatsApp?
Friends Don't Let Friends Borrow the Oculus
Borrowed Oculus to my friend and now he suffers from motion sickness. Hololens ftw
— Nahkapukki (@Nahkapukki) March 20, 2015
Two Near Fatal Mishaps Courtesy of the Trainwreck Known as the Oculus Rift
Playing with oculus rift 15 mins before driving home wasn't the best idea, I nearly died - TWICE! Tripping over something and nausea #CeBIT
— Kristian Schuhmacher (@schuhmi2) March 19, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
How fitting, SS Oculus Rift Has Struck an Iceberg and is Taking on Water, Every Savant for Themselves!..die on the titanic, and do it with full oculus rift support
“I couldn't even guarantee you a 10% chance of a hit anymore” - Capps (and then he goes on to comment on the state of the Game Industry Biz and the hurdles to be overcome if VR is ever going to hit the Mainstream...
So, eMagin and their iHMD. I hope their testing went beyond a focus group comprised of students from nearby Bellevue College. I hope they put people in Roller Coasters and Formula 1 Cars. In describing the reactions of the focus group participants to the four HMDs he mentioned Field of View, Resolution, Size and Weight. He did not say anything about adverse reactions or the subjects filling out a Simulator Sickness Survey. But, if it's true that users did not experience the discomforts that are now in the process of ruining Virtual Reality's reputation then it's not too much to say that Jerry Carollo design could save a nascent industry. To be fair Steam/HTC maintains that their HMD doesn't cause Simulator Sickness but I'm skeptical, the isolation is as complete as the earlier Dive Mask HMDs save some holes in the side of the eyebox that allow for some ventilation and light to the periphery. The problem of size and weight remain. All the admissions that the Oculus Design is flawed have now become industry wide. Palmer Luckey has no clothes. Recent hires indicate that the companies that made large investments in VR, Facebook, Google know they need a new approach. That points to exactly what Sculley maintained about the problems of current VR Headsets and what Mike Capps says here, there will be no advance until somebody gets the hardware right.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-03-19-i-couldnt-even-guarantee-you-a-10-percent-chance-of-a-hit-anymore-mike-capps
Sunday, March 22, 2015
eMagin management said it out loud in Public "WE ARE BROADLY DEMOING OUR IMMERSIVE HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY " but still nobody heard it. Reminds of that thing "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around will it appear on somebody's radar?" apparently not
Virtual Reality Hardware Radar Q1 2015 by @KZeroWorldswide #avegant #durovis http://t.co/ylOVW40MoF via @SlideShare
— Miguel Bandera (@miguelbandera) March 22, 2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Early on Kopin only alluded to an NDA with a large prestigious company, then a couple of years ago they said publicly thay had an NDA with Google...
Murky waters, blindfolded |
now they talk specifics about Google related revenue and namedrop whenever given the opportunity, based on that I'll maintain that there is no Google Stealth development going on with Kopin. No NDA in force. On the other hand not a whisper from eMagin as to that company save the odd circumstance that their VP for Special Projects is working concurrently with Google and eMagin as evidenced by the Employees Linkedin Profile. Or maybe the silence is just driving me bonkers. Could be either one. This guy though believes that the 10% revenue with Google means they will be using Kopin LCDs in Glass II. Not that familiar with the boundaries of what an NDA allows but it seems to me it's like saying "Wow, do I have a big secret, I was sworn to silence but here it is." Doesn't make sense. Then I don't know if Jerry Carollo's Linkedin Profile violates such an agreement or not if one exists. When Sculley said this is a tough business to understand he was not kidding.
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/7250741-derrick-zierler/3839146-kopin-corporation-q4-fy-2014-conference-call-highlights
Friday, March 20, 2015
Apple developing product to rival Google Glass? http://t.co/XbgjqpSmJM
— Hacker News (@hackernewsfire) March 20, 2015
Virtual reality is going to grow like crazy over the next... http://t.co/YeqIW5Pu72 pic.twitter.com/hV4yF9vrem
— Tim Moore (@TimMoore) March 20, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
One Thing Leads to Another...Facebook Has to Find a Way to Uninvent the Oculus Rift, One of Those Men in Black Memory Zappers Would Certainly Help
Yes Crescent Bay has Fresnel lenses. Black smear is also greatly reduced, but there's now a light-ray artifact, maybe from lenses.
— Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 19, 2015
Doug Lanman's Abstract for a Near-Eye Lightfield HMD, Doug was at NVIDIA at the time of Publication Now he is at Oculus/Facebook
Figure 1: Enabling thin, lightweight near-eye displays using light field displays. (Left) Our binocular near-eye display prototype is shown, comprising a pair of OLED panels covered with microlens arrays. This design enables a thin head-mounted display, since the black box containing driver electronics could be waist-mounted with longer OLED ribbon cables. (Right) Due to the limited range of human accommodation, a severely defocused image is perceived when a bare microdisplay is held close to the eye. Conventional near-eye displays require bulky magnifying optics to facilitate accommodation. We propose near-eye light field displays as thin, lightweight alternatives, achieving comfortable viewing by synthesizing a light field for a virtual scene located within the accommodation range (here implemented by viewing a microdisplay, depicting interlaced perspectives, through a microlens array)
https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/NVIDIA-NELD_0.pdf
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
That about covers it except...
The Oculus Rift ride at #FutureFest comes with a 'Urine and Vomit Spill Pack' pic.twitter.com/IVn1qQSOAB
— Dan Schreiber (@Schreiberland) March 14, 2015
Mucho
@Alexxondre wow oculus
very immersive
such realism
much vomito nausea
— Flynn (@T_Reichling) March 17, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
So far...
The Best Virtual-Reality Experience So Far http://t.co/c9zcRWyVGt
— MIT Tech Review (@techreview) March 17, 2015
Most Volatile Stocks: Aeropostale, Inc. (ARO), Trevena, Inc. (TRVN), Tofutti Brands Inc. (TOF), eMagin Corp. (EMAN), CAS Medical Systems Inc. (CASM)
I Guess CEO Sculley was right when he said that VR Headset adoption was a slow rollout so they had time to develop partnerships...Facebook-Backed Oculus Rift's Release Date Slips to 2016; Valve and HTC Salivate
http://www.dailytech.com/FacebookBacked+Oculus+Rifts+Release+Date+Slips+to+2016+Valve+and+HTC+Salivate/article37250.htm
Monday, March 16, 2015
Cousin Oculus Has the Same Problem...Must Be Hereditary
Oculus: Positional Tracking on Gear VR is a 'hard problem': In some ways Samsung and Oculus VR's Gear VR smart... http://t.co/FX4W1P5F2z
— Augmented Reality (@AugmentedReal) March 16, 2015
H.C. Wainwright raises eMagin’s price target on expected accelerated growth
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Hope You Didn't Have the Jalapeno-Rabbit-Rattlesnake Tacos they peddle at SXSW
Taking flight with Oculus Rift via Birdly - Not Pictured: my intense vertigo and nausea #SXSW http://t.co/WB6RlAyECU pic.twitter.com/RIkMiUSUym
— Don Kim (@donkimsays) March 14, 2015
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer Microsoft - Redmond, WA, US Posted 2 days ago...This looks to be the same position with a different title they first posted on March 2nd, does this cast a wider net? I dunno
“Microsoft’s #HoloLens to be sold for less than $500″ http://t.co/b5mlyRF5tB
— Roman David DeSilva (@MetroHeads) March 14, 2015
eMagin has a subsidiary named Virtual Vision? What the hell do they do? Looks like an old corp, trademark registered in Delaware that goes back to the Jones Regime, An Eyebud kind of deal
Pay the Man...
The awesome virtual reality tech we were promised is looking more and more like it's just going to be our phones strapped to our dumb faces.
— Mark Leggett (@markleggett) March 15, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
When Anybody Wants Your Opinion We'll Ask For It...
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey calls augmented reality apps 'boring': And for those curious when the Oculus Rift... http://t.co/LaX6c0kHcO
— Augmented Reality (@AugmentedReal) March 14, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
We Must Give the People What They Want From 1 to 4 Megapixels Per Eye
Study: two-thirds of consumers want virtual reality shopping | @scoopit http://t.co/ASwrhfG1Mj
— C. M. Elias (@elearninghoje) March 13, 2015
These CCs are the Investors Version...
Here is a video of people looking like idiots wearing VR headsets. http://t.co/aX1UV5j8JO
— Lisa Fleisher (@lisafleisher) March 13, 2015
Random Notes eMagin CC
No Forktrucks this time but "Warehouse" mention, glasses for picking presumably, let's see it
Olivier Prache's trip to Lake Placid with Google Glass battery drained in two hours
we found out the eMagin Z800 was "ahead of it's time" ok so now were caught up?
Michael Schwandt "consultant" to eMagin was one of the participants in the focus group that eMagin undertook in cooperation with a "Mystery" Company, Sculley, "I can't mention who". Mr. Scwandt was an undergrad at Bellevue College, let's see Bellevue, Bellevue, anybody think of a gaming company in that part of the world?
Oculus Rift was obviously Company #1, Wide FOV, bad resolution, screen door effect, BIG, has to be Oculus. I'll guess that the one that had both bad res and bad FOV was the Zeiss Cinemizer as Mr. Energy Drink keeps one on his desk. #3, no idea maybe a Sony HMZ T2
The HMD is going to look a lot more like this eMagin/TATRC Prototype fro Army Telemedicine
then this piece of grunt
what was new this time was Sculley floating the possibilities that other companies are interested in the displays themselves for their own HMDs apart from the housing electronics etc
what was with that random Margaret Kohin mention, well and good but wouldn't a nod to the person she was replacing make sense? Like he didn't want to mention Jerry Carollo, it sort of hung in the air, operating under the presumption that JCs Linkedin profile is accurate and he is working jointly for eMagin and Google, don't believe any of that political bullshit the other board is floating about "bad blood" between them, nonsense
they are aware that of the problems with the dive mask displays and there is no rush as adoption is slow, even Steam's entry is a dive mask with some holes on the side for ventilation, don't think that's the final product from them
Microdisplays will be the winners for these VR Headsets
Fraunhofer has apparently given up on direct patterning, they seem to be concentrating on OLED lighting
Broad based demos of the iHMD are weeks away with some tweaking of color gamut and head-tracking that is conformable to games developed for the infamous piece of shit like Die in a Plane Crash and Virtual Guillotine, just kidding
Based on ema_lurker research I think the most notable companies they will be demoing the hmd for are Google, Oculus, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Apple, Valve (companies we have heard of)
Fin
At a job site using @visualspection assessment software in the Yukon. #smartglasses #transportation #WearableTech pic.twitter.com/VE4en8sMz1
— VisualSpection (@VisualSpection) March 12, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
$EMAN:
eMagin Posts Mixed Q4 Results:
http://t.co/UhchU5GEXZ
— StockNewsWires (@StockNewsWires) March 12, 2015
7c Loss a share, beats on Revs, Guidance blah, work nearly completed on iHMD, Contract R&D progress, delivery of High Brightness Display Samples, Digital DSVGA Bright Spots
see what these guys have to say for themselves. Now back to Cavelleria Rusticana, picture Jake LaMotta getting the shit beat out of him and there we are.
Kopin Receives Hold Rating from Needham & Company LLC $KOPN http://t.co/xGquD9iCMU
— US Banking News (@AmericanBanking) March 11, 2015
eMagin Z800 worn by Soldier
Virtual Reality helps Soldiers Cope with #PTSD
#VR #VirtualReality
http://t.co/z3MuKyiMCk pic.twitter.com/djhnU6DeHo
— Roblem VR (@RoblemVR) March 12, 2015
Currently taking aspirin after just 30 minutes. Looking forward to the retail release of @oculus to add nausea to the headache lol
— Gary (@hypermole80) March 10, 2015
Oculus "Rainbow Cave" is a VR nausea-assist bag. Handy accessory straps on to the headset, protects your clothing and gamepad.
— Scott Wasson (@scottwasson) March 11, 2015
The Saga Continues...
@Quinnae_Moon Do you get motion sickness with it? Had an opportunity to try on an Oculus once and took it off in 10 seconds from nausea.
— ☥_wobl (@ank_wobl) March 12, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Puget Investor is not happy with eMagin, Gives it a One Out of Ten... All Things Considered They are not in Bad Company
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F5 Networks Inc. (FFIV) | Outperform | 112.29 | -4.93 % | -13.93 % | 10 |
Paccar (PCAR) | 60.50 | -5.54 % | -9.57 % | 9 | |
Symetra (SYA) | Outperform | 22.47 | -0.49 % | -2.52 % | 9 |
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) | 42.03 | -4.15 % | -9.52 % | 7 | |
SodaStream International (SODA) | 17.02 | -5.02 % | -15.41 % | 6 | |
First Solar Inc. (FSLR) | 59.86 | 0.19 % | 34.23 % | 6 | |
Precision Castparts (PCP) | 210.00 | -2.91 % | -12.81 % | 6 | |
NIKE Inc (NKE) | 96.51 | -0.63 % | 0.67 % | 5 | |
Flir Systems (FLIR) | 31.27 | -3.13 % | -3.22 % | 5 | |
Expeditors International (EXPD) | 47.21 | -2.26 % | 5.83 % | 4 | |
Columbia Banking (COLB) | 27.93 | -0.89 % | 1.16 % | 4 | |
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) | 13.56 | -2.45 % | -6.29 % | 4 | |
SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) | 49.72 | -3.19 % | -7.03 % | 4 | |
Nordstroms (JWN) | Underperform | 79.44 | -1.23 % | 0.06 % | 3 |
Corning (GLW) | Underperform | 23.05 | -5.53 % | 0.52 % | 3 |
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) | 190.32 | -6.40 % | -14.43 % | 3 | |
Starbucks (SBUX) | 92.18 | -1.40 % | 12.35 % | 2 | |
Amazon.com (AMZN) | 369.51 | -2.80 % | 19.06 % | 2 | |
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eMagin Corp (EMAN) | 3.15 | -4.55 % | 35.77 % | 1 | |
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