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Is Kura Too Good to be True?

What They Say A hat tip to DSCC’s weekly subscription newsletter for pointing me to a blog and interview with Kelly Peng of Kura, a company developing some AR glasses that have very (too?) impressive specifications and that are now said to be available in kit and production versions. Features are 150° FOV diagonal, about … Read more

Home Electronics Markt Index Q1-4/2020

What They Say The GfU put out its data for home electronics sales in 2020 in Germany. The fully detailed information can be downloaded here. However here are some items we picked out. TV sales were up from 6.475 million to 7.2 million for the year, up 11.2%, but with average prices up just 1.9%. … Read more

ISE Clarifies June Policy

What They Say Mike Blackman of ISE put out a statement with details of the organisers’ policies for the event which is still due to go ahead from 1st to 4th June this year. The organisation is looking at roadshows to get products in front of interested parties in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. … Read more

A New Headset is about to Debut from JVC

JVC Kenwood has announced the upcoming availability of the company’s enterprise focused, extended reality headset, the HMD-VS1W. The headset is intended to be connected to and operate in conjunction with an external computer. A feature of a so-called extended reality headset is that it does not block the user’s direct view of the outside world. … Read more

More Education, On Demand

As if anyone doesn’t already sense it, everything is changing in the education world due to The Rona. While I have a pretty good handle on what’s happening in the U.S. on those counts, it’s always instructive to see what’s transpiring in other parts of the world. The other day I had a catch-up Zoom … Read more

VR and the Virtual: SXSW 2021 Online Preview, Part 2

In today’s installment, I continue to offer a preview ‘sampling’ of some of the most intriguing VR, virtual production, and virtual event use cases slated as presentations for SXSW Online, along with some supporting video exemplars. In the previous article in this series, I took the reader on a short tour of VR-related use cases … Read more