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The Crazy VR Goggles in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Are Not a Prop but a Real Prototype

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HBO’s show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California’s San Francisco Bay Area. But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. Avegant makes a cameo at Hooli-con | Photo courtesy HBO.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. For the kind of entertainment applications Magic Leap is pursuing, a light-field allows for a more realistic rendering of virtual content. For a more sophisticated waveguide design, imagine a prism shrunk down to a very tiny scale, and elongated.