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Oculus Will Focus on the Virtual Reality Market

by Norbert Hildebrand

Wired magazine has released an interview with Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, in which he states that Oculus will focus in the immediate future on Virtual Reality (VR) rather than Augmented Reality (AR). This distinction …

Google Spins Off Niantic Labs

by Norbert Hildebrand

Google is spinning off its Niantic Labs activity, responsible for the augmented reality game Ingress and a location based mobile app. Ingress is a very successful augmented reality game, which has been downloaded more …

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Nomadic Virtual Reality Opens SIGGRAPH VR Village

by Steve Sechrist

The Virtual Reality Village opened for the first time at the Special Interest Group Graphics (SIGGRAPH for short) conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles. A VR Village highlight included a nomadic Virtual Reality system …

Epson to Demonstrate Latest Moverio BT-200 AR Applications at SIGGRAPH 2015

by Helen Vince

Epson America will be demonstrating the latest consumer and enterprise applications on its Moverio® BT-200 augmented reality smart glasses at SIGGRAPH 2015 Aug. 11-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Additionally, Epson invites developers …

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SMI Shows First Eye Tracking Upgrade for Augmented Reality Glasses

by Bob Raikes

At the 2015 Siggraph Conference, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) shows the world’s first Eye Tracking Integration for augmented reality, based on Epson’s Moverio BT-200 see-through head mounted display and on SMI’s mobile eye tracking platform. …

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Microsoft Sees a Five Year Timeframe to Make HoloLens Attractive for Consumers

by Norbert Hildebrand

In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft CEO Sataya Nadella, of course, praised the recent release of WIndows 10 as the begin of a journey into a new era. While this may be true …

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Senth IN1 AR Glasses for the Cycling Enthusiast

by Norbert Hildebrand

Recon Instruments released the Recon Jet earlier this year, and now it is joined by the Senth IN1 from Insenth (a China-based startup company) that is also aiming at the cycling enthusiasts. The headset …

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Microsoft HoloLens Looking at Researchers to Understand Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Since Google pulled Google Glass out off the limelight, Microsoft has stepped in by announcing its Microsoft HoloLens device during the Windows 10 announcement. It is kind of interesting to see which announcement was …

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Special Offer to Display Daily Readers

by Bob Raikes

The Immersed Europe event is taking place on September 3-4, 2015 in Murcia, Spain. The organisers have offered Display Daily readers a special discount of €100 which you can take advantage of by quoting …

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EnvelopVR has a Plan to Unify AR and VR

by Chris Chinnock

One of the earliest pioneers in AR and VR, Tom Furness, has just signed on as a senior advisor of a new company called EnvelopVR (not envelope). To see why, I was able to …

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Vuzix Announces Safety Glass Platform with M100 Smartglasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

The M100 smartglasses platform has been in the market for quite some time and has been offered in a wide range of professional applications. As a short refresher, the M100 smartglasses offer a monocular …

Is AR the New Hope for 3D?

by Steve Sechrist

Humans are very good at detecting position within 3D space, that is precisely what Google’s Project Tango, Intel’s Real Sense and others entering the space are looking to achieve. 2nd Gen Tango Device Shown …