 Augmented reality or AR is the technology of projecting images, graphics, and videos over top of the real world like in the movies and it actually exists today but most of what we have is pretty unimpressive because the holy grail of AR is of course not pointing your phone at stuff and seeing Graphics pop up through your phone's camera on your screen That much would be obvious to anyone who's ever tried to do that for longer than a couple of minutes during a stage demo The holy grail is integrating it into something that can be worn comfortably and ideally discreetly But while many companies some working privately like Magic Leap and others beating a drum about it like Microsoft are Pursuing head-mounted AR the current solutions are bulky and very expensive a HoloLens will set you back 3,000 US dollars enter scrappy upstart eyeglass these guys claim that their display tech solves some of the biggest issues with waveguide AR displays and That they can do it at one tenth of the cost and I'm actually about to get my first taste of their prototype. Oh Do you guys have PIA yet private internet access the VPN if you don't we're gonna have it linked below go check it out They're our sponsor today You Before I actually try this thing though, let's do a little bit of background. Who are these guys? So Sam Ewan actually worked at Microsoft from 2012 to 2016 on the original HoloLens team as a senior hardware engineer, so Obviously he believes in AR and even HoloLens to some degree It's an amazing piece of technology that uses cameras to track the environment around the user Letting him or her interact with the digital content the problem with it though is that the screen is Relatively small with about a 32 degree horizontal field of view not to mention that the color is inaccurate white in particular is very difficult to display and The waveguide type displays that are built into the lenses in front of each eye are about two Thousand dollars total that is two-thirds of the total cost of the base model on the two displays alone so by contrast Eyeglass believes that their tech could get closer to about ten dollars per eye or twenty bucks One percent of the cost which would make it easier to build an affordable device around it So it uses what's called off-axis imaging instead of putting a light source Perpendicular to your eyes, so you're you're looking into a display directly with a backlight behind it It actually puts the display and the backlight Above the eye so you can actually see that if I flip it up like this and then it reflects it off a curved piece Of glass this makes it see-through kind of like if you were wearing sunglasses Sunglasses which means that you can see the world around you it also gives you a field of view that is only Limited by the size of the lenses so our prototype here apparently offers an 80 degree field of view and It can use either a normal LCD display or even an OLED display or I mean Who knows I guess a future display technology is not out of the question Okay, so this is the part where I finally get to put it on and Sam's gonna kind of help me with the demo here So Just a normal velcro strap. It's very 3d printed at this point guys, so we need to be very careful with it Okay So it looks like the image is probably about I'd say about 10 feet in front of me right now so now when I have content running on it It is obviously a harder to see through it But like I can read my teleprompter right now I can interact with Pella But if I focus on that image that's about 12 feet in front of me things start to kind of fade away So without anything running on it. It's about as dark as I'd say my my pretty dark sunglasses It's kind of weird it doesn't Because it's like sitting so close to your eyes It doesn't feel like there's two lenses in front of you so right now I can really see the curvature of the glass like I can See a curve to the top of it a curve to the bottom and then it gets kind of like the shape gets kind of cut off here, but what Sam explained is that really any Technology any display technology that relies on a on a curved piece of glass is Going to need processing done ahead of time to kind of pre distort the image so that it ends up having those nice those square Corners that you would expect blacks and really dark colors are a little bit tough because those are obviously The display to the best of its ability being off meaning that that you see right through it but white is actually surprisingly opaque I Mean these are the same challenges that you run into with something like a projector for example That's why a dark room would be ideal. I mean trying this in the dark that would be trippy actually can we kill the lights? Now that is really cool Like if I was on a nighttime flight or something in a dark environment Like I could be convinced. I'm looking at a really nice projector, so there's no reason then that you couldn't have effectively like a ceiling mounted Giant display so you guys are quoting this at what about 120 inches at 12 feet ish right? I always say is probably twice or even even higher than the typical be our device in terms of angular resolution Right, so I did guess right it is 1080p per eye But we're stretching it over a relatively small area compared to a VR headset so it actually looks pretty fine and It should be noted that eyeglass has no intention of turning this prototype into a fully functional AR headset what they're really focused on is developing the core technology Which is projecting the display into the viewers eye so like on the business side You guys are more looking for partners to take this display tech and then use Whatever resolution they want and maybe external tracking cameras if they're into that right or whatever you guys don't care Yes, you're focused on these displays up here the curvature of the lens and then all the software that goes along with that right One thing I'm also noticing sitting here and using this is that compared to VR Even though the image is moving around it's more like a it's more like a virtual screen sitting in front that moves Like I'm not getting motion sick right Why is that? Because you can see the stable background So it's another trick of the brain that's helping with motion sickness now you get the best Watching experience actually when even like you stabilize your head on something and the screen is very still Because otherwise it's it's pretty easy to get distracted by things the real world moving behind it But whenever you do move you do lose that immersion for a little bit like it's it's not as immersive as VR And I don't I don't foresee a future where it ever would be But even though you lose that immersion a little bit this serves a purpose Because it also allows your brain and your eyes to work together to see the objects that are fixed around you and Keep you from getting disoriented So so this is a purely 3d printed serves no purpose other than to yeah Try the display tech thing in order for me to see the content. I have to get About here Like if you were watching porn right now, I wouldn't know until probably about here that there's like naked bodies Let's try something here because I have actually I have a Victoria Secret Okay, just give me a short can you see the content tell me what's happening that's definitely breasts So from there yes, but if I'm any further away I would have to be about here Brandon what you watching at work there? Wow. I don't know. This is pretty cool though What are they wearing? What the hell? It looks like she's wearing like part of a trash like bag Well, it's better than the whole trash bag This is cool Pretty neat though hey It's actually surprisingly good So I have to get to see what you're watching I have to get about here Colton you want to try it? It's pretty cool I would love to It's AR I just want to know what that is Whoa What do you saw? Hey there, how you doing? I'm Harry Ben Interesting Okay, like it's like a good image too Yeah, it's really sharp Yeah, wow and I can actually see the screen like really well So you could be working while you watch the Victoria Secret Oh, this is perfect Show That's awesome I'm banning these these aren't allowed in the office Come on man, come on No, it's really cool like I do like the image quality like even compared to something like a Like a vibe It's like way cooler It's crisp like it's yeah So the way that they envision people using this is mobile entertainment So you have privacy because nobody can see what you're watching Unless they got like right under by your chin and looked up at your displays The ability to have a bigger screen for entertainment on like a train or a bus or the plane So this would be an alternative to listening to the video So you can actually see the screen So you can actually see the screen So you can actually see the screen So you can actually see the screen So you can actually see the screen This would be an alternative to listening to podcasts for example This would be an alternative to listening to podcast for example This would be an alternative to listening to podcast for example They foresee a use case where you can type percent selections percent preferences percent preferences print print print print print demand for these use cases yet. 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