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SoftKinetics Captures the 3D World

A speaker from the Fraunhofer in Dresden gave a presentation on the bidirectional microdisplay that it has developed. It is said to be ideal for gaze tracking, while showing data to the user. However, we covered the technology in our SID report last week, where we got more information. See Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay … Read more

Tobii Explains Gaze in AR

The next session was on hardware and the first speaker was Matthew Clyne, from Tobii Technology, where he is a technology evangelist, working on developing partnerships and supporting developers. Tobii was founded in 2001 and claims to be the largest eye tracking hardware supplier in the world. There are a number of ways to do … Read more

AR to Kill the Display Business?

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Juergen Lumera of Bosch Automotive, where he is involved in technical documentation, started by saying its easier to get outsiders to introduce AR – insiders are not always trusted. To get out of “sandboxes” and into real applications, the first thing to find out “where do you waste money at the moment”. In his experience, … Read more

AR in the Enterprise Needs Rich Data

We moved to the AR for Enterprise track where where he heard that the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is a trade association that is supporting the development of professional and corporate applications of AR/VR. Its main aim is to drive the expansion of the application and it wants to be a global, member-based … Read more

Qualcomm Sets Out Vuforia Use

The success of mobile devices, we believe, is partly driven by the sensors that are available on them. The desktop has not had the same development in input – the keyboard and mouse remain the key input devices. We have been following Intel’s RealSense quite a lot, but we hadn’t caught up with what is … Read more

AWE 2015 Buzzes on Metaio Sale

We were in San Jose for the SID and remained in the area for a few days afterwards. We were able to get a day at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2015 conference in Santa Clara. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to stay to be physically present at the expo that went alongside the conference, but … Read more

Quantum Dots: The Plot Thickens

A lot of the conversation about quantum dots at Display Week revolved around the European Commission’s rejection of their own technical committee’s recommendation that cadmium-based quantum dots continue to be exempt from prohibition as a dangerous substance. Initially, this generated some angst in the cadmium crowd, and some jubilation in the non-cadmium (that is, indium … Read more

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the marketplace in significant numbers, the case becomes even stronger. TFCs compete on a combination of cost (low is good), sheet resistance … Read more

Touch and Haptics Innovations in 2015 SID iZone

Two developers caught my attention during my visit to the 2015 SID Display Week Innovation Zone (iZone). Redux Technologies and TouchNetix were exhibiting new embedded haptics and touch sensor products, respectively. The Redux Embedded Haptics Controller was being demonstrated on the firm’s tabletop display in the iZone. Redux Labs showed its tablet-sized touchscreen demonstrator (photo … Read more

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of the Wearables-Flexible Conference, I found that I was really happy to have dedicated so much time (a full day) and attention … Read more