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by Bob Raikes
Google has been very successful with its Cardboard VR viewer, with over 10 million shipped and the firm has now filed a patent for a smartphone package that can be re-used to make a …
Tags:AR/VR| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Alan Spencer
At the beginning of the year, Kopin announced its first Lightning OLED one-inch microdisplay (Kopin’s New 2Kx2K OLED on Si Panel to Advance VR Image Quality) and said that since then has had positive …
Tags:AR/VR| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Bob Raikes
As we saw at MWC, companies including Samsung are developing systems to allow multiple computer workspaces in virtual environments (MWC 4YFN Show Buzzes). As well as allowing ‘unlimited’ display size and resolution, the concept …
Tags:AR/VR| Desktop Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Milos Pavlovic
A UBS analyst has said that Apple may have over 1,000 engineers working on augmented reality in Israel which is leading to speculation that technology like Google’s Tango real-world detection may be in the …
Tags:Apple| AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09
by Bob Raikes
At the GDC, a company called Survios said that it has developed ‘Sprint Vector’, a new game using a special way of moving in VR applications that avoids breaking the ‘suspension of disbelief’ from …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Bob Raikes
AMD said at the GDC that its Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR with the next version of its software. The technology, so far only supported on NVidia GPUs, helps to make …
Tags:AMD| AR/VR| | Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Bob Raikes
At the Game Developers’ Conference, Nvidia has released a new version of its FCAT (Frame Capture Analysis Tool) that is specifically designed to help developers to understand the performance of VR apps and how …
Tags:AR/VR| | Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Chris Chinnock
Insight Media has released a new white paper, sponsored by Kopin, titled, “Understanding Trade-offs in Microdisplay and Direct-View VR Headset Designs.” It is now available for free download (with registration). The white paper suggests …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Alan Spencer
Sony sold 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets in the last quarter of 2106 and up to 19th February this year. Sony is the only one of the big three tethered VR headset makers to release …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Alan Spencer
LG is believed to be developing a new VR headset that will be based on Valve’s OpenVR platform, including using SteamVR Tracking. It was always Valve’s intention, when they set out to build their …
Tags:AR/VR| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Alan Spencer
Invidis reports that the Austrian Post organisation (Österreichische Post) has implemented a new VR 3D that shows a branch of the postal and telecommunications organisation. In the four-minute film, a virtual tour of a …
Tags:AR/VR| Austria| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08
by Bob Raikes
We missed an earlier report that Arm and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) were planning to collaborate on demonstrating at the GDC that a combination of the latest Arm Mali G71 GPU and SMI’s technology is …
Tags:AR/VR| Arm| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| SMI| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09
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