ODG 4K Augmented Reality Review, better than HoloLens ?
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Published 2016-12-20
Not many people have heard of ODG so I wanted to find out more. Microsoft bought patents directly from ODG in 2012 for the large sum of $150,000,000 (150 million dollars), one would assume that Microsoft then built its HoloLens technology based on these patents. Fortunately Osterhout Design Group, although they sold their patents, were able to improve upon other existing patents to build the AR glasses that I am demonstrating to you in this video.
I tested ODG's AR interface and augmented reality applications. I then tested OTOY's light field rendering and LG's "Fantasy World" in AR in 3D and stereoscopic. Just, wow !
Whilst editing this video ODG received $58m in Series A funding, the largest of its kind. I am confident ODG will be a strong player in the Augmented Reality industry because they have been developing these glasses for the US military and NASA for many years. To add to this, Ralph Osterhout not only spearheaded the design of these glasses, but he also was the first to build PVS7 night vision goggles for the military. Ralph has over 200 patents to his name, what a legend ! He really is the real-life Q and someone I would personally love to meet.
ODG are now commercialising their glasses and selling their R-7 glasses to consumers. I was fortunate enough to try the AR prototypes shown in this video, Project Horizon.
I travelled to Berlin to Augmented World Expo (AWE) because I could not get to the United States in time. AWE is growing in size and popularity and some of the speakers at the event were inspiring and innovative. If I've used any of your slides without crediting you please message me and I will add the credit to either the video or this description.
Thanks too to Meta Glasses and Meta AR for allowing me to trial their headset at Augmented World Expo. I've been invited to Meta's offices to review Meta Vision's augmented reality glasses which are reported to have 90 degrees field of view (FoV), please subscribe to my channel so you are alerted when I upload a new video.
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All Comments (21)
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What I need right now is a food replicator like on the original Star Trek.
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Best video I've seen yet covering this product. Nice job, and thanks for the info.
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loved the video. thank you so much, please keep up the good work, it really helps me collecting information on the topic for my work
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holy $#*!. The reflections and shadows were insane. I honestly didn't think they would even bother creating mr that could understand transparencies and reflections this early on. Also... why do all of these companies insist on putting the processing in the glasses? Just put it in a cell phone type device and let a wire connect the pocket pc to the glasses.
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There was bad tracking while he walked down the street, though, so it functioned more like a heads up display. but it's still damn impressive;)
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Very very interesting... seems a great project! Anyway, I see the "Holograms" trembling a bit while you move with your glasses. Thing that astonished me the most of Hololens is stability of tracking...
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Awesome ! I'm loving that the Hololens is going to have some worthy competition. I really want an affordable price point so I can get my hands on one of them as soon as possible. Great video ! Very informative & so were your previous ones as well. Glad I subscribed.
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It will be very interesting to see this versus magic leap.
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I was just wondering if I should get either the Metavr, the Hololens or the ODG AR glasses. What a perfect synchronicity. Thanks for the review!
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Impressive demo. 2 questions, 1. do they have any plans to support the win10 holographic platform and 2. it doesn't seem like HoloLens can support reflections and shadows like the ones in this demo? Do you know if that's the case and why?
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Thanks for the up. Nice to see some stuff shot through the glasses. Gesture control is only going to make the glasses heavier at the moment I guess. Would be nice to see them of course in future iterations when the lighter tech catches up. Certainly one to think of.
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Very cool tech and great reporting, thank you.
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Would this work over prescription glasses like the hollolens or are they like most that tailor to non glasses wearers
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Jamie how much further have we developed in this field? Have you any content on AR in 2022? I’m only just coming across your content and can’t believe it’s dated 5 years ago!
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Could you provide link where you got the app with the burger/car and the video with the train? We got a R7 device but nothing fancy to try.
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thanks for sharing
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Looking back, my lad, you were on top of it
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Impressive indeed! What about people wearing glasses? Will those adapt on top of them or will those "replace" them?
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That dude has dank hair. 10/10
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I love to see the competition but my son worked on the HoloLens for a long time. Wore them all the time he was at work. They are still just in the development phase. Much more to come as they are only released to developers and companies that may plan to use then.
