Augmented Reality – Page 129

My SID 2015 Impressions

by Chris Chinnock

First, let me confess that I did not hear every paper, attend every side conference or visit every booth at SID 2015 – far from it. As a result, I have to confine my …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Display Week 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Fraunhofer’s Discrete Glasses Compensate for Vision Defects

by Tom Allen

A team at Fraunhofer IOF have developed a way to produce AR glasses in a smaller, less prominent form factor. These glasses – to be shown at Laser World of Photonics in Munich (22nd …

Technicolor Gives a Glimpse of the Future

by Norbert Hildebrand

Technicolor held its yearly science and research event in Jersey City, NJ. Technicolor, the technology company which focuses on the creation, distribution and storage of image related content, has about $3.5 billion in sales. …

Smart AR Glasses Shipments to Surpass 12 Million Units Between 2015-2020

by Helen Vince

The smart augmented reality (AR) glasses market is a combination of different technologies, from simple head-up displays (HUDs) like Google Glass that act as a second screen, readily accessible with a glance, displaying text …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses

AR and VR on the Mind

by Norbert Hildebrand

It seems that AR and VR are on everyone’s mind these days. The whole area of augmented and virtual reality is of great interest to the business world, as demonstrated by the acquisition of …

Augmented Reality System tested by US Naval Research

by Norbert Hildebrand

The ONR (Office of Naval Research) as part of the US Navy has been working on an augmented reality training headset for years and now they have shown the results of their work at …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Training| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Oculus Acquires Surreal Vision

by Helen Vince

Oculus has announced its acquisition of Surreal Vision, a UK-based company which has been working to refine software that can accurately and quickly build 3D maps of physical environments, which it calls simultaneous location …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Wearable World Congress Also Covers IoT

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Wearable World Congress in San Francisco, organized by the Wearable World organization, addresses the development of all wearable technology and the Internet of Things. The conference was held at the Palace of Fine …

WayRay Announces Holographic Head Up Display for Later This Year

by Norbert Hildebrand

WayRay, a three year old Swiss based developer in the connected car space announced that it will be releasing its first two products later this year. In the middle of 2015 the company plans …

BAE Focuses on Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

BAE has announced a partnership with the University of Birmingham with the goal of developing augmented reality systems. The new “augmented reality systems could revolutionize complex emergency response and military battlefield operations, by drastically …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 21

‘Significant’ HUD Growth to 2020

by Tom Allen

Image: WardsAutoHUDs are the next step on the path to fully autonomous vehicles, was a message coming from the 2015 WardsAuto Interiors Conference in Detroit this month. Speaker Jennifer Wahnschaf, of Continental, told organisers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20

OTT versus Linear TV at Streaming Media East

by Norbert Hildebrand

One of the hot topics at Streaming Media East was, of course, how streaming will affect the existing TV infrastructure. There was no debate about whether streaming video could challenge existing platforms, but observations …