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Mid-week Links – Week Ending 11th November 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 middle of this week. Connected TV Advertising’s Big Secret: Two Can Be …

Tags:Application Processors| Augmented Reality| AVOD| Desktop Monitors| Financial Data| Investment| MMD (AOC Philips)| Roku| Samsung| Smart TV| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Meta Pushes the Envelope on HMD Brightness

by Bob Raikes

Meta has been working on many aspects of VR and AR display use for years. At Siggraph this year the firm showed its experiments with pushing the brightness of VR headsets to new levels. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | HDR - High Dynamic Range| SIGGRAPH| Virtual Reality

Superhexa Glasses Use Sony MicroOLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SuperHexa, a 2020 startup based in Beijing, has new Vision smartglasses with integrated wide (50 megapixel) and telephoto (8 megapixel) cameras. The glasses are available through a funded Indiegogo project and should ship …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| OLEDs| sony

Vuzix Announces General Availability of M400C Smart Glasses

by Artem Alekseenko

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that its Vuzix M400C™ smart glasses are now available for customer orders in the US, Canada, UK, EU …

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China Plans to Export 25 Million VR Headsets by 2026

by Bob Raikes

 What They Say Reuters reports that China has an action plan intended to allow shipments of 25 million HMDs by 2026 with a value of $48 billion under the country’s 14th five year plan. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Supply Chain| Virtual Reality

Vuzix Acquires SAP Software Solution Provider Moviynt

by Artem Alekseenko

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, is pleased to announce that it has acquired Moviynt®, a US-based SAP Certified ERP platform software solution provider, to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vuzix

Microsoft Hololens Progress Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The WSJ looked at the history of the development of Microsoft’s Hololens project. The paper said that more than 100 members of staff have left the team (which has been over …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microsoft| Mixed Reality

VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 2

by Barry Young

Yesterday, I introduced AR and its applications and today I’ll look some other aspects of AR and VR. The VR/AR category was expanded to include “MR” (Mixed Reality) also called “MX” (or passthrough AR – …

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VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 1

by Barry Young

With the slowdown in smartphone, IT and TV demand, VR/AR/MR is gaining center stage in the display industry, especially now that Apple has committed to its first two products. Through 2022, Meta’s Quest VR headset …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| | Virtual Reality

Microsoft Hololens causes US army nausea and headaches

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that ‘more than 80%’ of US soldiers that used the IVAS customised Microsoft Hololens headset experienced “mission-affecting physical impairments” such as eye strain within three hours. The information was …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence| USA

TCL is About Ready to Launch the NXTWEAR S XR Glasses

by Arthur Berman

A new extended reality glasses product called NXTWEAR S is about to be launched by TCL Electronics Holdings Limited (Hong Kong).  A video introducing the NXTWEAR S is appended to the end of this article. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| TCL

Panasonic Shiftall Announced at AWE Europe

by Bob Raikes

  What They Say Panasonic’s Shiftall subsidiary has showed the most recent versions of its MeganeX VR headset which has: Dual 2560 x 2560 1.3″ displays @120Hz with HDR FOV is said to be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Kopin| Microdisplays| Mixed Reality| OLEDs| Panasonic