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Thundercomm Announced Its Brand-new XR2 VR HMD and 5100 AR Glasses Solutions at CES 2023

by Omid Rahmat

Thundercomm, the world-leading IoT product and solution provider, unveiled its Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform based VR HMD solution and Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 platform based AR glasses solution at CES 2023. The new XR2 VR …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Thundercomm| Virtual Reality

Kopin Spins Out OLED Unit as Part of Restructuring and Layoffs

by Omid Rahmat

In November of last year, Display Daily covered the appointment of Michael Murray to replace former Kopin CEO, John Fan. Our take was that Kopin was losing money, micro-displays are taking off, and change …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Kopin| Lightning Silicon Technology| OLEDs| VR

IDC Tracker Finds Upward Pricing Putting Downward Pressure on AR/VR Headsets

by Omid Rahmat

On the backs of a tough economic environment and rising prices, International Data Corporation (IDC) has reduced its outlook for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets for the remainder of 2022 and …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| IDC| Virtual Reality

Downtrends in Education: SXSW EDU 2023, Part II

by Len Scrogan

Continuing from our previous installment, “Scanning the Horizon at SXSW EDU 2023”, today’s segment focuses on some technologies and topics that seem to be down-gearing, at least in the education market. For context, the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Editor| Education| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

The Virtual World May Be Different, May Take Longer Than We Expect

by Andy Marken

We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be worth $23.3 billion by 2028. Yep! …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| internet| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Varjo opens new doors for its Reality Cloud with support for Unity and Unreal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Varjo has added support for Unity and Unreal to its Reality Cloud platform. Up to now, the platform was focused on using Autodesk’s VRED. The use of the Cloud platform has …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Software| Virtual Sets

Links – Week Ending 9th December 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the later part of this week. Musings on technology & software from a …

3D-Micromac And Schott Join Forces To Improve Yield And Cost Of Production Of Augmented Reality Waveguides

by Artem Alekseenko

3D-Micromac AG, the industry leader in laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the semiconductor, photovoltaic, glass and display markets, today announced that it has entered into a joint-development partnership (JDP) with SCHOTT, a …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Augmented Reality

Niantic Using Lumis Waveguide – Guttag Investigates

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Occasional DD contributor and HMD guru, Karl Guttag, has published a blog post in which he speculates (based on a forensic analysis of published videos in comparison to his own photos) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Waveguide Display

Latest Apple Headset Rumours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he now believes that the widely rumoured Apple headset will not start volume shipping until the second half of 2023 and that as a result, …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

2022 Was a Disappointing Year for AR/VR but the Long-Term Outlook Remains Positive

by Artem Alekseenko

Revenues for AR/VR displays will total $942M in 2022, according to the latest issue of the Biannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Display Technologies and Market Report. Despite the current global economic downturn, the long-term outlook …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Ganvix signs epitaxy deal to develop green VCSELs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A company called Ganvix is working with an equipment maker from Australia called BluGlass to try to develop a new way of making vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that emit in the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laser| Laser Projectors| Virtual Reality