Exclusive: EyeWay Vision Part 1: Foveated Laser Scanning Display - KGOnTech
As I discussed in my last article on Digilens, I was out in San Jose on a quick trip. The purpose of that trip was to see EyeWay Vision (hereafter EyeWay). EyeWay has an ambitious program to try and solve many of the important problems in AR. They are developing a dual laser beam scanning (LBS) based, direct retinal projection, foveated display. Based on papers and patents, no less than Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have all put some serious effort into LBS foveated displays.
I knew in advance that I would be looking through a rather big prototype and with limited functionality as several key aspects were still under development. Most importantly, the current prototype is “fixed foveated” and eye tracking is in the process of being integrated. EyeWay had a separate demonstration of their eye-tracking and plan to combine the retina-tracking with foveated image movement later this year.
Soon before I left on the trip, I asked EyeWay if I could take pictures through the optics, and they said I could which impressed me. It turns out that because of a mechanical restriction that would have required removing a part from the prototype, I could not get the best pictures possible. EyeWay offered to retake the pictures with their prototype, then in Israel, and send me unretouched pictures. I can confirm that these pictures are consistent with what I saw and what I was able to take with my own camera.
