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VR Funding Booms

by Bob Raikes

Another half a billion dollars was invested into virtual and augmented reality startups in the third quarter of this year, with a record $2.3 billion dollars invested in the last 12 months according to …

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Onix Plans High Res, HFR Curved OLED VR

by Bob Raikes

Our friends at Jon Peddie’s Techwatch flagged up to us a new start up company in the PC-based headset market, that will have an UltraHD curved OLED display with 120Hz refresh and 10 bit …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Himax Hosts President Tsai Ing-Wen with AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

During a visit by Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-Wen, Himax, a fabless supplier of display drivers, showed the latest technology that Himax is developing in AR and VR. The company claims that it has already …

First Study on Effects on Vision of HMDs Shows Little Impact

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul presented the results of the first ever study (reported by Healio Ocular Surgery News and published in the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) on the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Enterprise Augmented Reality App Revenues to Approach $6bn B

by Bob Raikes

Juniper Research said that revenues from enterprise AR apps will reach $5.7 billion by 2021, rising ten fold from an estimated $515 million in 2016. Consumer apps in AR will stay behind enterprise over …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Survey Points to Low Content Offering and High Price as VR/AR Adoption Hurdles

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the recent “2016 Augmented and Virtual Survey Report“, PerkinsCoie and Upload present some of the results of their online survey about the opportunities, challenges and hurdles for AR/ VR if it is to …

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Inside-Out Tracking is Positive for Hololens

by Milos Pavlovic

An article on the ‘RoadtoVR’ blog highlights a feature of the Microsoft Hololens that keeps track of objects in the real world and tracks (and differentiates between) static and dynamic objects in the real …

Tags:3D| Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 37

Apple Sees a Better Future for Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

In an interview with ABC News, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple was asked about the new iPhone 7 and also where Apple stands on the new topics of Augmented and Virtual Reality. Tim Cook …

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Epson and DJI to Create AR Smart Glasses Solutions

by Isaac Oburu

Epson has announced that it has partnered with DJI, maker of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to create new solutions for the Epson Moverio smart glasses. The Epson Moverio BT-300 AR smart glasses will start …

Tags:3D| Augmented Reality| Epson| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Epson Partners with DJI to Create AR Smart Glasses Solutions for Piloting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

by Isaac Oburu

Epson, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality (AR) smart eyewear platform, today announced a partnership with DJI, the world’s leading maker of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to create new solutions for the Epson Moverio …

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AMD CTO Mark Papermaster and Vice President of Alliances Roy Taylor Detail Future of VR at IFA 2016

by Isaac Oburu

?AMD announced today that Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster, will deliver a keynote address “ Race to Reality – The Next Billion-People Market Opportunity,” on Saturday September 3, 2016 at …

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VR And AR Markets to Grow Says CSS

by Bob Raikes

Market researcher, CCS, predicts that the sales of VR headsets will reach 16.5 million this year, valued at over $500 million, with sales growing to 72 million by 2020. That number includes smartphone VR …

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