[Microsoft HoloLens] JeffKang2:
If you are interested in a prediction from a patent reader:

Some information from the Oculus Rift subreddit from /u/FredzL:

> *Disclaimer* : pure speculation based on published patents and reviews.

>

> I think Magic Leap is :

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> * 40°x40° FOV

> * 8 Mpx/4K (scanning fiber display with piezoelectric actuator)

> * 60 Hz

> * blocking light from the physical world (occlusion mask with LCD(s))

> * nearly correct accommodative depth cues (zone plate diffraction patterning device => 12 levels of depth from 0.5 m to 3 m)

> * low-persistence (720 Hz high-frequency binary display => 1.38 ms illumination per depth layer)

> * glasses form-factor (waveguide with embedded diffraction grating => end goal, not done yet)

> * release in 2016-2017

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> I think Microsoft HoloLens is :

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> * ~40°x22° FOV at most (from the reports : tiny FOV, rectangular)

> * 4 Mpx/2.5K (OLED) or 8 Mpx/4K (LCoS) but color sequential

> * 60 Hz

> * not blocking light from the physical world (additive blending)

> * no accommodative depth cues

> * full persistence

> * large and heavy glasses form-factor

> * release in 2015

reddit/com/r/oculus/comments/2t74sf/microsoft_announces_windows_holographic_ar/cnwsyny

A later update:

>Release dates were just shots in the dark based on the state of what has been shown (nothing for Magic Leap, what looks like a consumer design for Microsoft).

>The others are based on the patents I've read at that time and some known limits (no 4K OLED microdisplays).

>I since discovered other Microsoft patents about masking pixels and variable focus (not really accommodative depth cues but can limit the vergence-accommodation conflict).

>From the reviews it's not clear if that's already been implemented and if not, there is no way to known if it will in the future.

reddit/com/r/oculus/comments/2tiyos/fov_for_the_synthetic_bits_is_not_as_important_in/cnzxw3e

vrwiki.wikispaces/com/Magic+Leap

vrwiki.wikispaces/com/Microsoft+HoloLens

TV physicist Brian Cox and the visual effects team behind the film Gravity are supposedly making a show that debuts Magic Leap at the Manchester International Festival in July.

I’m curious as to how close they are to their patent pictures and wild promises.

Graeme Devine said that it was massive like the head mounted device from the Brainstorm movie, and I don’t think that the first look was too long ago.

If Microsoft gets slightly edged out on hardware, they’ll have to push good software.

E.g.

HoloLens Gaze detection:

>Gaze detection in a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display

Bloomberg LP (makes financial software) built a virtual prototype of their data terminal for the Oculus Rift that has 20 virtual screens

Looking at a floating button, and pressing a HoloLens eye-tracking “select-what-am-looking-at” button would probably be better than trying to move a mouse-controlled cursor across multiple virtual screens.

>Microsoft patents eye-tracking keyboard software

>The idea’s just like swipe-based keyboard software, but instead of tracking the motion of your fingertip, the system tracks eye movement.

pocketnow/com/2014/12/24/eye-tracking-keyboard

>Microsoft Brings World’s Fastest Texting to Windows Phone 8.1

>“Our whole approach,” Paek says, “is all about promoting muscle memory and making shape writing robust to mistakes.”

research.microsoft/com/en-us/news/features/wordflow-040414/aspx

> Fully Articulated Hand Tracking

research.microsoft/com/en-us/projects/handpose/

3divi has a "turn a surface into touch surface" prototype Youtube video (youtube/com/watch?v=upGTLrSUa5c ) that uses Kinect, and a Pico projector.

Maybe you can replace the Pico projector with a AR generated image.

I would love to see Microsoft excel in Hololens productivity apps, such as something that would extend Visual Studio.

Patent pictures of Magic Leap depict mobile experiences, such as being at a grocery store, or mowing the lawn, but I personally prefer a solidly tracked indoor experience, and don't mind being tethered.

(I’d be more than happy to fuse multiple Kinects)

But regardless, I’ll probably be getting both of them.