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UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

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 partner and has included a waveguide-based AR display in its glasses as a new initiative and the company has integrated a … Read more

Iristick is Finalising its Hardware Specification

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 main camera and the other with an additional 5 megapixel camera on the side that has a 5x optical zoom function. … Read more

Spex Concentrates on Improving Vision

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 this condition, the central portion of people’s vision deteriorates. The company uses a camera to capture what would be in the … Read more

Motorola Working on Means to Minimize Deformation in Foldable Displays

On June 14th, a patent application filed by Motorola Mobility LLC. (Chicago, IL) was published. It discloses a means to address the issue of semi-permanent screen deformation in foldable displays. The basic idea in Motorola’s disclosure is the use of heat to minimize damage to the flexible display caused by folding and unfolding the display. … Read more

IP Wire: 10-Millionth US Patent Actually Issued to AR Firm

Last week, the White House held a ceremony to acknowledge that a patent filed by defence contractor Raytheon on June 19th was the 10-millionth US patent to be signed in, 228 years after the first was signed in by George Washington in 1790. However, IP Wire’s Patrick Anderson has since revealed that, in actual fact, … Read more

Extended Vivitek NovoConnect Family Brings Added Productivity, Security And Flexibility

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Vivitek’s NovoConnect Solution family of wireless presentation and collaborations systems, has now become even easier to use with the introduction of three new products; the LauncherOne, the LauncherPlus USB-C Edition and the LauncherPlus Base holder. Combined, the new additions ensure that Vivitek’s NovoConnect Wireless Collaboration Solution – which includes products like the NovoTouch flat panel … Read more

Absen Announces Dates for European Showcase Events

Absen has revealed the schedule for its “Stronger Together” showcase events, taking place across 30 European cities throughout the summer. The event kicked off this week in Spain and will travel to Italy, France, UK, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and Turkey. The team will deliver key insights on the current status of the market … Read more

Magic Leap Files Patent for AR Glasses That Can Monitor Vital Signs

A patent filed by Magic Leap, dating back to November 2017, details a new AR glasses product that can monitor vital signs including body temperature, heart rate, respiration, sweating and glucose levels, with built-in systems to alert the user to an anomaly. The documentation describes a “light analyser configured to determine a polarisation angle rotation … Read more