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augmented reality or ar is the technology of projecting images graphics

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and videos over top of the real world like in the

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movies and it actually exists today

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but most of what we have is pretty

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unimpressive because the holy grail of ar is of course

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not pointing your phone at stuff and seeing

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graphics pop up through your phone's camera on your screen

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that much would be obvious to anyone who's ever tried to do that for longer

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than a couple of minutes during a stage demo the holy grail is integrating it into

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something that can be worn comfortably and ideally discreetly

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but while many companies some working

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privately like magic leap and others beating a drum about it like microsoft

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are pursuing head-mounted ar the current solutions are bulky and very expensive a

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hololens will set you back 3 000 us

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dollars enter scrappy upstart eyeglass

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these guys claim that their display tax solves some of

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the biggest issues with waveguide ar displays and that they can do it at one

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tenth of the cost and i'm actually about to get my first

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taste of their prototype

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before i actually try this thing though let's do a little bit of background who

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are these guys so sam ewan actually worked at microsoft

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from 2012 to 2016 on the original

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hololens team as a senior hardware engineer so

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obviously he believes in ar and even hololens to some degree it's an amazing

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piece of technology that uses cameras to track the environment around the user

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letting him or her interact with the digital content

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the problem with it though is that the screen is relatively small with about a

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32 degree horizontal field of view not to mention that the color is inaccurate

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white in particular is very difficult to display and the waveguide type displays

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that are built into the lenses in front of each eye are about two thousand

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dollars total that is two-thirds of the total cost of the base model on the two

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displays alone so by contrast

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eyeglass believes that their tech could get closer to about ten dollars per eye

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or 20 bucks one percent of the cost which would make

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it easier to build an affordable device around it so it uses what's called off

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axis imaging instead of putting a light source perpendicular to your eye so

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you're you're looking into a display directly with a backlight behind it it

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actually puts the display and the backlight above the eye so you can

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actually see that if i flip it up like this and then it reflects it off a

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curved piece of glass this makes it see-through kind of like

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if you were wearing sunglasses which means that you can see the world around

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you it also gives you a field of view that is only limited by the size of the

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lenses so our prototype here apparently offers an 80 degree field of view and it

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can use either a normal lcd display or

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even an OLED display or i mean who knows i guess a future display

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technology is not out of the question okay

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so this is the part where i finally get to put it on and sam's gonna kind of

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help me with the demo here so uh just a normal velcro strap

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it's very 3d printed at this point guys so we need to be very careful with it

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uh okay so did they use what you saw so it looks

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like the image is probably about

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i'd say about 10 feet in front of me right now so now when i have content

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running on it it is obviously a harder to see through

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it but like i can read my teleprompter right now i can interact with pella but

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if i focus on that image that's about 12

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feet in front of me things start to kind of fade away yes so without anything

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running on it it's about as dark as i'd say my my pretty dark sunglasses

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it's kind of weird it doesn't um because it's like sitting so close to your eyes

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it doesn't feel like there's two lenses in front of you so right now i can

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really see the curvature of the glass like i can see a curve to the top of it

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a curve to the bottom and then it gets kind of like the shape gets kind of cut

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off here but what sam explained is that

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really any technology any display technology

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that relies on a curved piece of glass

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is going to need processing done ahead of time to kind of pre-distort the image

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so that it ends up having those nice uh those square

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corners that you would expect blacks and really dark colors are a

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little bit tough because those are obviously the display to the best of its

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ability being off meaning that you see right through it

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but white is actually surprisingly opaque

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i mean these are the same challenges that you run into with something like a

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projector for example that's why a dark room would be ideal i

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mean trying this in the dark that would be trippy actually can we kill the

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lights now that is really cool

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like if i was on a nighttime flight or something

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in a dark environment like i could be convinced i'm looking at

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a really nice projector so there's no reason then

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that you couldn't have effectively like a ceiling mounted

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giant display so you guys are quoting this at what about

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120 inches at 12 feet ish right

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ours is probably twice or even even

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higher than the tv conveyor device in terms of angular resolution

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right so i did guess right it is 1080p per eye

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but we're stretching it over a relatively small area compared to a vr headset so

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it actually looks pretty fine and

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it should be noted that eyeglass has no intention of turning this prototype into

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a fully functional ar headset what they're really focused on is developing

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the core technology which is projecting

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the display into the viewer's eye so like on the business side

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you guys are more looking for partners to take this display tech and then use

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whatever resolution they want and maybe external tracking cameras if they're

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into that right or whatever you guys don't care yes you're focused on

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these displays up here the curvature of the lens and then all the software that

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goes along with that right interesting

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one thing i'm also noticing sitting here and using this is that compared to vr

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even though the image is moving around it's more like a uh it's more like a

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virtual screen sitting in front that moves like i'm not getting motion sick

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right why is that because you can see this stable

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background so it's another trick of the brain that's helping with motion

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sickness now you get the best ex watching experience actually when even

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like you stabilize your head on something and the screen is very still

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because otherwise it's it's pretty easy to get distracted by things the real

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world moving behind it but whenever you do move you do lose

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that immersion for a little bit like it's it's not as immersive as vr and i

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don't i don't foresee a future where it ever would be

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but even though you lose that immersion a little bit this serves a purpose

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because it also allows your brain and your eyes to work together to see the

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objects that are fixed around you and keep you from getting disoriented

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so so this is a purely 3d printed serves

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no purpose other than to try the display tech

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thing in order for me to see the content i have to get

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it about here yeah like if you were watching porn

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right now i wouldn't know until probably about

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here that there's like naked bodies let's try something here because i have

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actually i have a victoria secretary

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okay let's give it give it a shot can you see the content tell me what's

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happening that's definitely breasts yeah

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so from there yes but if i'm any further away

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i would have to be about here brandon

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what you're watching at work there wow i don't know this is pretty cool though

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what are they wearing what the hell

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it looks like she's wearing like part of a trash like bag

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well it's better than the whole trash bag

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this is cool pretty neat though hey like it's actually surprisingly good so i

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have to get to see what you're watching i have to get about here oh Colton you

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want to try it it's pretty cool i would love to

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it's ar i just want to know i don't want to ruin it whoa

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what do you say hey yo oh hey there how are you doing

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you're very bad interesting okay

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like it's like a good image too yeah it's a video's help yeah wow i can

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actually see the screen like really well so you could be working while you watch

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the victoria secret oh this is perfect show that's awesome hey i'm banning

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these these aren't allowed come on man come on

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no it's really cool like i do like the image quality like even compared to something like a goodbye or whatever

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it's crisp like it's yeah

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so the way that they envision people using this

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is mobile entertainment so you have privacy because nobody can see what

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you're watching unless they got like right under by your chin and looked up

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at your displays the ability to have a bigger screen for

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entertainment on like a train or a bus or the plane so this would be an

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alternative to listening to podcasts for example

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they foresee a use case where you could walk around on the street

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playing games or watching youtube videos but then without your head either buried

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in a phone or i mean much more danger i've never seen anyone doing this but

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inside a vr headset that would be super stupid or even just

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doing chores around the house like uh watching a movie while you vacuum

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i do have to say i haven't personally witnessed the demand for these use cases

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yet in all my travels i have yet to see someone using a vr headset on a plane

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so they they did some studies internally

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asking people in a double-blind comparison

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to rate their experience in vr or ar and

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they said that most people preferred ar but i do wonder is that a purely

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academic question since i haven't yet seen people using either

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i would like to hear your feedback

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