Against Meta 2, Microsoft's new patent is expected to solve the problem of HoloLens field of view

Last week, Microsoft HoloLens's rival AR glasses Meta 2 was officially shipped, and Microsoft was in the rush. We know that Meta 2 is not only cheaper than HoloLens in price, but also not weak in performance, META2 has a visual angle of 90 degrees, 60 degrees higher than HoloLens. However, the patent now exposed by Microsoft is expected to increase the field of view of HoloLens, but less likely to reduce the cost of equipment.

According to the patent document description, according to the patent document description, based on the waveguide or the light field and other display technology can be applied to the near-eye display (head-mounted display). However, different types of display technologies have their advantages and limitations. For example, a waveguide display can provide images with high sharpness, high contrast, and high resolution, but with narrower horizons. The light field display can provide a wide field of view, but the sharpness, contrast and resolution of the image are relatively low. It is reported that HoloLens use a waveguide display, and unicorn Magic Leap using the light field display technology.

Now the solution for Microsoft's patent display is to combine two display technologies to achieve HoloLens's wide field of view objectives. Simply put, the virtual object is rendered by selecting one of the display systems based on the characteristics of the virtual objects. For example, in a device that has two display systems at the same time, a device based on the waveguide display technology provides the user with a virtual object in the face space. The display based on the optical field display provides a virtual object for the user to face the outer area of space. This combination can increase the HoloLens angle of view from the original to 80-90 degrees, and improve the overall image quality, but currently do not know whether this will increase the complexity of the system, and improve the cost of equipment.

Before 591ARVR Information Network www.591arvr.com Small series also reported, HoloLens important component supplier revealed that Microsoft is developing HoloLens second generation, I hope we can see the new patent applied to the next generation of HoloLens.

Against Meta 2, Microsoft's new patent is expected to solve the problem of HoloLens field of view