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The HalfDive VR Headset is Optimized for Use in Bed – But Goes to Sleep

by Arthur Berman

Founded just recently, in March, 2021, Diver-X, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) is in the process of launching a rather unusual headset. Called the HalfDive, the product is designed for use while the user is lying …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

Somnium Space is Developing a Headset

by Arthur Berman

The “social virtual reality platform company” Somnium Space LTD (London, England)is going into the hardware business. The company explained that “as a decentralized and open Metaverse company we cannot allow Somnium Space to be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

Oppo Announces an Assisted Reality Device Called Air Glass

by Arthur Berman

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, doing business as Oppo (Dongguan, China) has announced a new smart glasses product called Air Glass. The product is reminiscent of Google Glass in that it is in …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Next-Gen Smart Glasses from Mad Gaze are on the Way

by Arthur Berman

Mad Gaze is preparing to offer a new smart glasses product that has been named “Wave.” A video appended to the end of this article demonstrates the Wave smart glasses in operation. The smart …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| Waveguide Display

An Unfamiliar Company Offering a Familiar Type of Product

by Arthur Berman

Although this article does report on the development of a new smartglasses product, it is more about the company that designed, manufactures and sells the product. The principle reason that Kifta Technologies caught my …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Military & Defence

Origami OLEDs on the Way

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Dong Chan Kim of the Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (Seoul, Korea) is developing a new technology to enable the production of foldable quantum dot …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

An Interesting Upgrade to an Interesting AR Headset

by Arthur Berman

The X-Craft headset launched by Rokid Inc. (Redwood City, CA) last December does not look quite like other AR glasses products. Nor do the specifications to which the X-Craft was designed read like those …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Rugged Displays

Innovative Flexible Micro-LED Arrays Enabled by Graphene

by Arthur Berman

A large, international team of researchers headed by Junseok Jeong of Sejong University (Seoul, Korea) is developing an innovative method to fabricate highly flexible microLED arrays. First, a little background information. Currently, most flexible …

Tags:Flexible Displays| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Inmolens Technology is Developing Fashionable AR Smartglasses

by Arthur Berman

This article is about the INMO Air smartglasses, a product under development by Inmolens Technology Co., Limited(Shenzhen, China). As is the case in augmented reality smartglasses, computerized information is superimposed over a direct view …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| SmartGlasses

A New Method of Controlling Light Emission from QDs is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park of the Department of Physics within the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Republic of Korea) is developing a novel means of controlling …

Tags:EL Quantum Dots| Perovskite| R&D (Research & Development)