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AR Glasses for the Movies

by Arthur Berman

While surfing the Internet during this past week, I came across a press release issued by Digital Cinema Solutions, a division of Sony Electronics Inc. (Los Angeles, CA). The topic of the announcement was …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Augmented Reality| Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Visual Ergonomics| Vol 24 - Issue 27

An Investigation into Factors Affecting 3D Visual Fatigue

by Arthur Berman

A duo of researchers lead by Ph.D. student Mohammed Alhaag within the Industrial Engineering Department at the King Saud University (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) have conducted a study to compare the extent of …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Human Visual System (HVS)| R&D (Research & Development)| Visual Ergonomics| Vol 24 - Issue 27

A New 3D Display Can Minimizes Eye Fatigue in VR/AR Systems

by Arthur Berman

Researchers Wei Cui and Liang Gao within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL) have developed a display system that produces a 3D image based on a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Visual Ergonomics| Vol 24 - Issue 26

The Argus Rearview Mirror

by Arthur Berman

Argus (Taipei City, Taiwan) is developing a hybrid rearview mirror system that is designed, in part, to eliminate the blind spots experienced with conventional rearview mirrors. The Argus mirror displays real time images captured …

Tags:Automotive| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 26

Alpha Glass AR Glasses Have Wide FoV

by Arthur Berman

At this time, Alpha Labs (Palo Alto, CA) is a small company, consisting of just three engineers and a marketing director. None-the-less, the company’s plans are not small. Currently under development is a product …

Tags:AMOLED| Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| Vol 24 - Issue 26

The GenBasic VR Headset

by Arthur Berman

GenBasic (apparently a brand name of the Shenzhen Big Bread Technology Co., Ltd.) is now offering a product called the Quad HD Android All-In-One Virtual Reality Headset – HXSD Edition. The “All-in-One” in the …

Tags:Android| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Super Thin Holograms are Under Development

by Arthur Berman

Modulating the phase of light is part of the means by which holograms are able to create an image. It follows that, to generate a sufficient phase shift, a hologram needs to have a …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 24

RaphTime is Developing a Mixed Reality HMD

by Arthur Berman

RaphTime (Beijing, China) is developing a mixed reality HMD product called the RT Fusion. Similar to the more prominent HoloLens HMD from Microsoft, the RaphTime device is see-through, overlaying video imagery on a view …

Tags:AR/VR| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Introducing Electrick Technology for Flexible Touch

by Arthur Berman

One of the big advantages of touch screens is that their use is intuitive. The implementation of touch screen technology does, however, have several practical disadvantages including the fact that current touch screen technologies …

Tags:Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 22

New Reflective Technology Could Triple the Resolution of LCDs

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center (Orlando, Florida) is developing a technology that could eventually triple the resolution of LCDs. A recent article on this research published …

Tags:display technology| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Plasmonic Displays| Reflective Display| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Microsoft Researching Better AR Displays

by Arthur Berman

Paraphrasing a recent publication by a team of researchers at Microsoft Research: the lightweight optics typically found in the current generation of virtual, augmented and mixed reality near-eye displays cannot be scaled to provide …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Introducing the Exchimp AI1 All-in-One VR Headset

by Arthur Berman

As one of the first steps in developing the concept for their Virtual Reality headset, the team at Exchimp considered the products currently on the market. On the one hand, it was possible to …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19