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The MHL Consortium has developed a new specification and cable solution to meet an unmet need – the desire to deliver 8K content over a single cable. At CES 2015 the Consortium revealed some details of the specification and a working prototype. The MHL Consortium was organized to serve the mobile device market by using … Read more
DivX is a company I (CC) have a hard time understanding, so in our meeting at CES, I asked them to explain what they did and what their mission is. Even after their explanation, I am still a little fuzzy, but I will try to explain what is going on with this rapidly changing company. In … Read more
Major gaming peripherals provider, Razer, was at CES to promote its new program called Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), which is a partnership of a number of companies involved in virtual reality. The idea is to offer open access to both the hardware and software for development of VR products and applications in a bid … Read more
Immersion-VRelia, Inc. has developed a VR headset that uses a smartphone as the imaging device. The “GO” product, featured at CES 2015, is a housing that holds the smartphone and includes optics to display an immersive world. While the company is developing several hardware-based VR solutions, it also recognizes that content will be the key to … Read more
We did not get a chance to try on the latest VR headset from Avegant, which is called the Glyph, although we did see the initial version at last year’s CES. This headset looks like a set of headphones wrapped around the eyes, or maybe a video visor with headphones. It does have a … Read more
In a concept that is similar to one shown by Seebright, a company called Caputer showed a prototype headset they call the SEER. They think it gives users the look of Iron Man. It is a big, bulky headset that appears to not have any counterweights added to the back for balance. It will not … Read more
TechnicaI Illusions (Woodlinville, WA) used a suite at CES 2015 to offer private demos of it CastAR headset. The company opened a Kickstarter campaign last fall with the goal of raising $400K, but got to just over $1M before the round closed. Now, the founders are working to develop the products to deliver to its … Read more
Sony used CES to showcase two new prototypes – the next versions of the devices we reported on from IFA. The SmartEyeglass device is a dual ocular eyeglasses type device for AR applications while the Attach is a monocular AR module that, as the name suggests, attaches to a pair of eyeglasses. Both require a … Read more
Osterhout Design Group (ODG) has primarily focused on developing dual optics augmented reality headsets for defense and commercial use. At CES 2015, the company introduced a new design that it plans to offer to consumers. This will retail for around $1K, a lot lower than the $5K price tag of the commercial version. Six years … Read more
Infinity Augmented Reality is an Israeli software start-up company that is using a stereo camera attached to a VR headset to provide a more accurate tracking engine. The company explained that VR or AR headsets that use a gyro for tracking can drift over time, leading to inaccurate positional information. For applications where positional data is … Read more
Samsung Display (SD) had lots to show us, but also lots of “no photos” signs and staff were keen to really limit what we snapped. That was a disappointment, so we’ll have to stick to, mainly, words. The first displays we looked at were a highlight in the middle of the suite. Four 55″ transparent … Read more
Mediatek Eyewear refererence design We commented in our report on the Gitex show in Dubai that chip-maker, Mediatek, was taking a higher marketing profile and we found the same at CES, although the company was in the Venetian in a meeting room, rather than on the show floor. The first bit of news was that … Read more
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