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IDC: Worldwide IT and Telecom Spending to Slow After Last Year’s Rebound

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications is on course for growth of 3.7% this year in constant currency, slightly down from last year’s 4.2% growth, and will reach $4 trillion in …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Lumus Looking to Build Business for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

Lumus, based in Israel, is a developer of high quality waveguides for AR that it has been making for seven or eight years, through a partnership with Thales of France (and we have been …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25| Waveguide Display

Varjo Mixed Reality Demo is Impressive

by Bob Raikes

Varjo was in a hotel suite near the show and was showing the latest version of the headset that we first saw at MWC (We Get a Chance to Look at Varjo’s Headset) and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ThirdEye Open to Customisation

by Bob Raikes

ThirdEye is a maker of smartglasses that is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The X1 glasses are built around a complete system based on a Snapdragon 820 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of …

Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 25

UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Optical Technologies is a maker of safety glasses from Brescia in Italy and has integrated VR technoology into the glasses which it has been developing for 20 years. The company is a Sony …

Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Iristick is Finalising its Hardware Specification

by Bob Raikes

Iristick is from Antwerp in Belgium and has developed its own smartglasses which are based on a display-only architecture mounted on certified safety glasses. The company has two versions, one with a 5 megapixel …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Spex Concentrates on Improving Vision

by Bob Raikes

Spex, which is a division of eSight, has a very specific objective in developing VR systems and that is to help those that are suffering from visual problems and, in particular, macular degeneration. In …

Tags:Android| AWE 2018| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 25

VRHero Headset Has Good Optics

by Bob Raikes

VRgineers has developed a headset, the ‘VRHero’ that is intended to deliver ‘the best VR image quality’. The headset was designed in the company’s facilities in Prague and in Los Angeles and has been …

Tags:AWE 2018| Leap Motion| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 25