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Digital Experience Has Lots to See

by Tom Allen

Digital Experience, aka Pepcom, is the largest of the CES press events – almost a mini show by itself. This year it was held in the Mirage hotel, and the ‘Sun, Surf and Tech’ …

Tags:Augmented Reality| BlackBerry| Blue Light| CES 2016| Dell| DLP Projectors| Epson| Eyewear| Kopin| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| USB| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 02| Vuzix

The Perception of Motorcycle HUDs May be About to Change

by Chris Chinnock

New motorcycle Head-up Display (HUD) technology has just been introduced at CES that may indeed begin to change the perception of the utility of such devices. Driving this is new waveguide display technology from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2016| Head Up Displays HUDs| Vol 22 - Issue 01

What is the Attraction here: Star Wars or Augmented Reality?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Christmas is over and Star Wars seem to have won in most categories. Of course, I am not talking about any TV, BluRay or DVD sales but the latest installment of the Star Wars …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 52

AR and VR Due at CES 2016

by Steve Sechrist

If you follow the buzz on the technology street, one of the hottest technologies anticipated at CES this year will be Augmented and Virtual Reality, better known by their AR and VR acronyms. From …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| CES 2016| Siggraph 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Build to Last: VR Sales Figures You Can Count on

by Neil Schneider

A big stink is being made about HTC delaying the commercial release of their HTC Vive until April next year, and others are worried that Oculus has already missed the mark by delaying until …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 52

VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus

by Karl Guttag

There certainly is a lot of money going into VR and AR Head Mounted Display, I mean half a billion dollars here and $2 billion there, and pretty soon you are talking serious money. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Essert Provides AR Solution With Vuzix

by Tom Allen

Essert GmbH has chosen Vuzix as a smart glasses partner for its AR service. Essert will sell Vuzix’s M100 glasses alongside its own augmented support and training applications. The first customer of the complete …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Back Panel| Germany| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 51| Vuzix

Was this the Year of AR / VR?

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we started 2015 we had high hopes for augmented and virtual reality to develop into the “next big thing” for the AV industry. With the year coming to an end, it is fair …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 51

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

Swapbots

Draw and Code Combines Toys and Augmented Reality Game

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you have never heard of Draw and Code, you certainly don’t know what SwapBots are. Draw and Code is a software development company based in Liverpool, UK that develops games using new technologies. …

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