If you were -- as I was -- dubious that MicroVision was involved with META, I think we can erase a lot of your doubts.
Well, someone over on the Yahoo Message board pointed this out. There's MicroVision's name on this poster of people involved with Meta. Whether they're talking about customers or suppliers or both here, I'm not sure. Although I'm nearly certain MicroVision would be a supplier, not a customer.
So, a couple of days ago we saw the great similarity between the Meta headset and the NOMAD.
Now we see this connection.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason we'd be associated with META is because MicroVision is providing the display. I've looked through the old Nomad system and it has a very wide field of view, which was very lacking in other augmented reality systems Scoble had reviewed. I was assured that the new tech for that system that MicroVision has is a lot better.
Combine all of that (what Scoble says is a TRILLION dollar business) with PicoP -- I think we can officially say, we're in fat city.
We're in good company on that poster.
Here's a link to the Meta Facebook Page, and the video referenced above.
https://www.facebook.com/metaglasses/
This is a topic that has come up before. It's possible that MagicLeap and MicroVision are connected. Whether they are or not remains to be seen.
(I have tried the Nomad -- which is more than a decade old, and has a far better field of view than the ODG augmented reality glasses -- which Scoble has called "the best" available now. I'm sure it's been substantially improved.) MicroVision Full-color
Thanks to Roger and others for the multiple heads-up on the Scoble video.
The bottom line is that MicroVision is a leader in AR patents. There is a lot of work going on in the space. If it's a trillion dollar product for Google --- if MicroVision gets even a percentage of that -- we're sitting pretty. (A trillion is a thousand-billion - so even a bit player would be in the hundreds of billions.)
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PatentVue (Augmented Reality and Head Mounted Display Patents)
Magic Leap Lands Astonishing amount of venture capital
Scott Woltman (Hololens & MicroVision)
Augmented Reality decompression.
Posted by Robert Scoble on Thursday, February 4, 2016
From PatentVue (May, 2015)
Robert Scoble just posted this. This is a great story about what can happen to a company (what WILL happen to MicroVision) as it transitions from being a relative unknown to a known entity.
There is more at the source.
From Bloomberg
The relatively unknown robotics toy company Sphero had been making little remote-controlled balls for years. It's purely coincidence that the toys looked just like BB-8, an adorable little droid in the upcoming movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
"We already were changing the way people interacted with robots," said founder Adam Wilson. "This changed the way the world saw robots. It really did change everything. We could never have seen this coming like that."
If you were -- as I was -- dubious that MicroVision was involved with META, I think we can erase a lot of your doubts.
