HoloLens Speculation

Dreams do come true! 5 years ago, when my sister was helping me creating the HoloLens vision, which I presented at TEDx Kraków back in October 2010 and later at eComm 2011, we did not know how close or how far we were from the actual product. Now it looks like we were damn close!

Of course it was a speculation then, but one that I backed with my own money. I enjoy putting my money where my mouth is. This makes the story so much more credible. So during my preparation for the TEDx talk I did a lot of research on the technologies necessary to build such product. One of them was laser microprojection. Doing the research I got in touch with Lemoptix, the Swiss - based laser microprojector startup. In a few months (June 2011) Lemoptix was raising a financing round I participated in. Then in March 2015 it was acquired by Intel.

There is no public information on what exactly is inside the HoloLens, but considering the facts:

1. The HoloLens is powered by an Intel processor and Intel now owns Lemoptix;
2. The display is a see-through type, which almost exclusively limits the range of technologies to laser microprojection;
3. The software part of the HoloLens projection may be powered by Light Blue Optics;

my speculation is the Intel / Lemoptix MEMS Laser microprojector engine powers the HoloLens (even if this doesn't prove to be the case, the HoloLens development at Microsoft must have pushed Intel to invest in the laser microprojection technology).

There are still some items present on my conceptual prototype (mainly the input engine that uses brain coupling) that are missing in the HoloLens, but hey, we are still only half way through the development cycle I envisioned.