Possible manufacturer of Valve's next gen varifocal optics identified--and a lawsuit?
Posted Sep 2, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC
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This was really good work.
It is fun that you highlighted Joshua Hudman. I heard of him first in 2007 or so, when he was at Microvision. A huge amount important optics engineers have been at Microvision at some point. It will most likely never be a successful company, but they have been very strong at creating IP and fostering optics engineering careers.
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Hudman is clearly an absolute TREASURE when it comes to his work at Valve.
After covering many of the patents Valve has been pushing related to Index 2, his name comes up in most of them. So it was a very good time to let people know how much of an importance he is.
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I have worked with several people who worked with him, actually. Heard good things only.
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That's really cool! May I ask where/what type of company you work for? If not, I understand.
Thanks for sharing.
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I used to work in a research lab and there I ran into several people from the Seattle-optics scene. Probably no one has ever called it the Seattle-optics scene before, but you get what it means.
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Damn... this is some fully fledged drama
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What about identification of the eMagin OLED micro display ?
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A compact Wide FOV pancake lens system. Wide FOV.
So my last video I got a lot of people confused and that’s my fault because I don’t use a script and sometime I kind of do weird moments with my mouth.
I imagined how a certain prototype from the eMagin company who is the company I believed is making the panels for Valves next generation headset.
They had a prototype with a lower FOV and I mentioned how even if the next Valve Index did have a lower FOV, this sort of varifocal display or lenses would be way worth it even at the cost of FOV.
But that wasn’t me saying ...
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Hmm... Am I the only person who feels like VR outside of Facebook is actively trying to commit suicide?
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or it was much simpler
their agreement had "supply X per timeframe"
company was like "yeah, we try but covid"
valve was like "screw you, we sue you!"
company was like "woah woah, we sorry. we wanna be friends. we cant promise anything except we try"
valve was like "ok. yeah. we understand. but then we will patent it all so we can get another company when you dont deliver. if you deliver its all good"
company was like "dude, we said we try."
and the other investor with 5million bucks? probably facebook. i dont think theres any other player in the game left willing to invest. and I also think oculous or rather facebook would be a pushover if they did not get carmack...
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I couldn't make it through the video, but this is a good write-up.
Was the dispute about the ownership of the patents? I'm a bit confused as to how Valve filed the patents if the research and the manufacturing were done by IO.
The other investment from an outside company, that clearly seems to point towards some sort of competitor to Valve or some other conflict of interest for IO? Could go back to the patents.. Perhaps Valve didn't want their patents used in a competitor's headset?
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I personally believe part of the lawsuit's settlement Valve had with IO had one of the terms being to allow Valve to patent IO's tech for use in their AR/VR devices
Probably to slow down/block out the new investor for profiting off the fruits of Valve/IOs multi year work.