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Are AR and VR Becoming the Tech Bubble of the 21st Century?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Writing about augmented and virtual reality is kind of fun, as it describes a new technology that is developing incredibly fast, where nobody knows what will happen each day. There’s anticipation before the computer …

Meta Talks About the Next Generation of AR Glasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

Meta has been making AR hardware for quite some time now. They are in this market for an astounding two and a half years (based on the successful Kickstarter campaign closing) as an augmented …

Toshiba Uses VR to Ease MRI Anxiety

by Norbert Hildebrand

Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Medical Systems are showcasing a virtual reality solution for the use in MRI machines. Most MRI systems include a narrow tunnel where the user’s head goes leading to anxiety in …

Teraglass the next Augmented Reality Headset Seeks Crowdfunding

by Norbert Hildebrand

Teracle, a California and Korea based start-up company, is seeking crowdfunding support for its Teraglass augmented reality headset. The campaign is running until March 3 and has so far (February 16) achieved less than …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 06

University of Florida Reports on Development of New LCD Mixture for Extreme Temperatures

by Norbert Hildebrand

Shin-Tson Wu, Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida – College of Optics and Photonics, USA together with support from Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute in Xi’an, China, and DIC Corporation, …

AR, VR, Holodeck or Somewhere in Between

by Norbert Hildebrand

The interaction between marketing and manufacturing is supposed to determine success or failure of products and technologies. At least, this is the basis for every business book I have ever seen. After capitalism achieved …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Nagase and Inkron Announcing Cooperation on New Optical Materials

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Japan based Nagase is announcing a collaboration with Inkron, a Finnish high tech material company, for novel optical materials based on “Inkron’s Optical Coating (IOC) products of photo-patternable dielectric and light control materials. …

Tags:Anti Glare| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Solar Tectics Receives Patents for Making Large Grain Crystal Si Films

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you have not heard of Solar Tectics before, you are not alone. The company has received patents (in 2015 actually) on creating single crystal Si films at low temperatures. This is of interest …

Tags:Electron Mobility & Transport| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Polysilicon (CGS)| Vol 23 - Issue 05

Is Apple Interested in AR / VR?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In its recent earnings call, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was asked what his level of interest in virtual reality may be. He answered “In terms of virtual reality, no, I don’t think it’s a …

Lux Research Sees Changes in the Smart Glasses Leadsership

by Norbert Hildebrand

Lux Research, the US based Research Institute with a focus on emerging technologies has published a report on the status of smartglasses in enterprise applications. In this research, they have studied more than 70 …

Why Do I Believe that AR / VR is a Hot Topic this Year?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In my last Display Daily I was trying to condense the recent CES show into a short article and one of the topics was the abundance of AR/VR solutions. As my colleague, Steve Sechrist, …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 04

AR / VR Developments

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft announced their Room2Room project that ups the typical Skype call to a full blown projection experience in a room. As the successor to an earlier project called RoomAlive, it uses the Kinect system …