Lenovo ThinkReality

This is proof of concept & another market opportunity for Microvision's near eye display.

Lenovo rode the wave of PC development. They made PCs -- they used the Windows operating system -- didn't fight the trends.

They're going to go in the straightest line from where they are to where the most money can be made... whoever has the best software or the best display, they're going to use it if they can.


Kipman said that anyone can build their own hololens.

The development contract said that once the development was done, Microvision could sell the results to whoever they want. 

This is good.

Putting their own spin on form-factor -- moving the computing to a belt-worn box may have significant advantages. (Form factor is one of the biggest challenges.)


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Yesterday the tech giant announced the ThinkReality A6, a new enterprise-focused AR headset. From the looks of it, it’s the company’s answer to both HoloLens and Magic Leap. Like those headsets, ThinkReality A6 consists of a pair of see-through lenses that can project virtual images into the real world. You interact with this content using a three degrees of freedom (3DOF) motion controller similar to Magic Leap One. HoloLens 2, meanwhile, uses hand-tracking.


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The new ThinkReality system is based around an AR headset and a software platform. Lenovo said that the ThinkReality A6 is a comfortable 380-gram headset with two fisheye cameras on the front and depth sensors and a 13-megapixel RGB sensor.

There are onboard microphones for voice control, and the headset can detect where you're gazing to optimise resolution or navigation.

Punters can interact with your virtual environments using an included 3DoF controller. Untethered, the A6 can last up to four hours with its 6,800mAh battery, and you can still use the device while it's plugged in and charging.

The headset connects to an SSD-sized compute box that contains a Snapdragon 845 CPU running Android. There's also an Intel Movidius chips powering waveguide optics. Each eye gets a 40-degree diagonal field of view and 1080p resolution.

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 uses a Snapdragon 850 CPU and packs two 2K MEMS displays. Microsoft also squeeses all the computing components into the headset rather than in a separate box like Lenovo does.
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