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How Does the Public Look at VR and AR Today?

by Norbert Hildebrand

While Display Week is just ending and Infocomm coming up soon, there is no shortage on news about new displays and gadgets per se. To break away a little from the ‘news about new …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google Glass| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Microsoft Provides Hololens Commentary

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has, for the first time, provided a look at the hardware inside its Hololens augmented reality headset, at the Imec Technology Forum in Belgium. Although there have been teardowns of the dev kit …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IMEC| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC12 Microsoft Summarises AR & VR Developments

by Bob Raikes

The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview of what is happening in VR and AR. There were 175 slides! Before …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| SmartGlasses| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearables

IC11 Kopin Adds Battery & Voice Technology to Displays

by Bob Raikes

Dr Hong Choi is CTO of Kopin which is concentrating on AR and VR markets. The company has developed a lot of technology and has 300 patents. It has $90 million in cash and …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Batteries| Kopin| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Voice Input| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC9 Meta Moves on From Kickstarter

by Bob Raikes

Soren Harner is Chief Product Officer of Meta which is at the seed stage after a successful Kickstarter campaign and is based in Redwood Shores in the Bay area. He spoke about how AR …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC8 Vuzix Looks to Go Through ‘Oakley Gate’

by Bob Raikes

Paul Travers is the CEO of Vuzix which makes wearable displays and has been doing this for nearly 20 years. It has offices around the world. Until glasses get through the “Oakley gate” and …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC7 ODG Sneaks a Preview of its New Glasses

by Bob Raikes

Pete Jameson is COO of Osterhout Design Group which is a private self-funded company that is based in the centre of San Francisco – with a clean room close to the baseball stadium! The …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Hyper-Reality – A Glimpse into AR Dystopia

by Norbert Hildebrand

Currently, augmented reality and virtual reality are considered the ‘Next Big Thing’. As such the viewpoint of most analysts is very positive, to say the least. The most critically discussed issue is that of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 20

AR and VR Dominate CES Asia – Well, Duh!

by Chris Chinnock

AR and especially VR were very popular at CES Asia. There were so many demos it became a bit mind numbing after awhile. Booth after booth had lines of people waiting to try on …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES Asia 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Is there Such Thing as Too Immersive?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Following the development of virtual reality and to a certain degree also augmented reality technology, we keep hearing about how immersive these new experiences are. As a matter of fact, I have also used …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Video Editing & Production| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 20