An Owed Post

When I started this blog it was literally simply a place for me to keep my own research so I wouldn't lose it.

Recently, I have been much less active here... that has been part of my plan. The kids are grown, and I love flying and want to do a lot more of that. That's been my recent focus.

I've been getting e-mails and texts querying why I haven't been active here.. is everything okay, etc.

The answer is, I don't perceive that anything has changed. And yes, things are okay. I'm frustrated too that we haven't had more news.

Researching MVIS, and posting here has gone from a #2 priority, to about #4, and at the moment, I'm in waiting mode -- as are most. I see new iterations of what we already know, if I see something notable that's new it will get attention.

• I strongly suspect that Amazon is the primary Interactive Display customer (and I have previously stated why -- up to and including a strong reaction from an Amazon engineer who was working on new iterations of Alexa.) This also can be sold elsewhere, and not everything that is Alexa enabled is directly from Amazon.
• I suspect Microsoft and Hololens. We know that they can sell this technology to any customer. The market for this should be vast. Remember that most of the machines that use Windows are NOT made by Microsoft, and in Augmented Reality this will probably be the case as well. (Do not forget that Microsoft and Microvision have never acknowledged the connection -- this connection was entirely derived by a lot of research by a lot of different people, here and elsewhere.)
• I still think that the Display Only customer is still in play or they would be trying to sell display-only products elsewhere.

Even in a worst-case scenario, I see considerably more value than we're currently showing.

Figure I owed a post after that hit-piece on SA this morning. (Interesting coincidence with several days of painting the tape after market.) 

I'm still around... 

Video from CES

Thanks for the heads up Mike!

Great review and discussion of the Interactive display at CES

Interesting new Video from Microvision

Very interesting how they have improved projection by recognizing what not to project onto.

No reflections, and different surfaces... cool stuff.

The ability to not project on shiny things may have been a requirement for the market.

Do not doubt the coming enormous popularity of Augmented Reality

....and it will get people out and about. This kind of thing will be enormously popular, far beyond enterprise use.

...and there are a lot of relationships in this business... and they make for an interesting and tangled web; some of it purposeful, some incidental.

Now this was apparently made by an independent developer, but there are LOTS of independent developers working on stuff that will be this cool.Ian Charnas


Hack-A-Day





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 With six Mario Kart games released on home consoles, three on portable handheld consoles, four arcade games co-developed with Namco and one for mobile phones, the Mario Kart series includes a total of fourteen entries. The latest game in the main series, Mario Kart Tour, was released on iOS and Android in September 2019. The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date. "


If you like Breadcrumbs, this is also a Nintendo Product, and Slade Gorton on the MVIS board has a relationship with Nintendo... He got Nintendo involved with the Seattle Mariners.... and Nintendo and Microsoft know each other...

The Man who Saved the Mariners Q 13 Fox News

"By now, the main story has been well documented: Mariners owner Jeff Smulyan putting the team up for sale in 1991, and Senator Slade Gorton saving the day, approaching Nintendo, which offered to buy the team - then organizing a group of local investors to join as partners."

Map

Amazon Breadcrumb

I've been fairly confident that Amazon is on board for some time.

Part of the story has been relayed here before.. I still won't name names, but I will say Amazon now.... (A Story That Can Now Be Told)

This is some new Sleuthing that's pretty good, how much weight you might give permissions, etc. (are they dropping a hint? I don't know.)

I know the reaction from an Amazon engineer when asking about an interactive display told me all I really needed to know.

I've also asked enough people who sell this thing that the addition of the screen is the number one requirement for the second speaker purchased.

Thank you Walt!


Microvision has a new Data Sheet

The Poached Salmon Platter seems pretty innocuous...

But it is the exact listing from The Whole Foods (wholly owned by Amazon) from Bellevue Washington... right down the street from MVIS HQ...