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Magic Leap System Spotted?

by Bob Raikes

Business Insider published a picture of what is said to be a prototype of the Magic Leap device that it said was being rapidly evolved to be ready for an important board meeting. However, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Training & Simulation Display Summit Conference Announced

by Chris Chinnock

Insight Media is pleased to support the 2017 Training & Simulation Display Summit on Sept. 27-28, 2017, at the Rockwell Collins Simulation and Training Solutions facility in Sterling, Virginia. The event will focus on …

Training & Simulation Display Summit Conference Announced

by Chris Chinnock

Microsoft Shows Acer HMD Development Kit

by Bob Raikes

Acer has shown a ‘Mixed Reality Development Edition’ headset based on technology from Microsoft and designed for Windows 10. Acer said at IFA that it would be one of the companies developing the Microsoft …

Western European AR/VR Spending to Reach $2.5 Billion in 2017

by Alan Spencer

IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide update has forecast Western European revenues for the AR and VR market to be $2.5 billion in 2017. This represents a 131% rise of over …

Western European Spending on Augmented and Virtual Reality Forecast to Reach $2.5 Billion in 2017, Driven by Consumer and Manufacturing Adoption, says IDC

by Milos Pavlovic

The Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide update, recently released by International Data Corporation (IDC), forecasts Western European revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market to reach $2.5 billion …

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MWC 4YFN Show Buzzes

by Bob Raikes

Away from the main show at the older exhibition centre in Barcelona, Montjuic, the organisers held a special event called “Four Years from Now”, or 4YFN, that was designed for technology innovators from academia …

MWC 2017 Round-up

by Bob Raikes

Picoprojector maker, Aiptek, has a new AM500VT projector that is a complete Android system that produces HD images of up to 120″ with output of 500 ANSI lumens. The projector is supplied with a …

How Many Apple Engineers Working on AR?

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

Shima AR Glasses Look Like……Glasses

by Arthur Berman

Laforge Optical Inc. (San Mateo, CA) is developing a product line of augmented reality smart glasses. The glasses overlay video content derived from the wearer’s iOS or Android smartphone as images in the wearer’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Hands-Free, Head-Mounted Tablets

by Bob Raikes

RealWear has launched what it describes as the first industrial head-mounted Android tablet, but what most people would describe as an Android-based A/R headset. The handset is designed to be used hands-free and can …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08| Wearables

IDC Forecasts AR and VR to Reach $13.9 Billion in 2017

by Alan Spencer

IDC is forecasting that worldwide revenues for AR and VR will reach $13.9 billion in 2017, which is an increase of 130.5% over 2016 when the revenues were $6.1 billion. AR and VR spending …