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Niantic Shows AR Prototype & Nreal Air Supports Consoles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We saw a couple more items after Qualcomm’s announcements last week. 9to5Google reported that Niantic showed a prototype of its new (“Not final”) design for an AR headset using the new Snapdragon …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Consoles

Vuzix to Introduce its New Award Winning Ultralite Smart Glasses Platform at CES 2023

by Artem Alekseenko

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that it has been named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards winner in the Wearable Technology category for Vuzix Ultralite™, a new …

Qualcomm Has New AR-specific Chips and a Reference Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has a new chip series, the AR2 Gen 1 that is intended for use in smartglasses. The processor, co-processor, and Wi-Fi 7 system combo is said to take up 40% less …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CPUs| Qualcomm| Semiconductors

Magic Leap 2 is the best AR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has taken a fair amount of criticism in recent years largely because it ‘over-promised’ and rais nearly $2 billion to build AR headsets. However a review by Engadget was …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Testing

Ns Nanotech – Producing Red, Green and Blue InGaN µLEDs Grown on a Single Wafer

by Barry Young

Ns Nanotech CEO, Dr. Seth Coe Sullivan presented at the northern California SID chapter on the status the company’s nanowire LEDs, which can be grown simultaneously in red, green and blue colors using indium …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Production Technology

MICLEDI Announces Red GaN MicroLED Breakthrough for Augmented Reality Glasses

by Artem Alekseenko

MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading developer of microLED displays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, has demonstrated 630nm wavelength red GaN with outstanding full-width-half-max (FWHM) in the range of 50nm. The introduction of the high-performing red …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| MicroLED

KYOCERA Develops New GaN Laser Chip, World’s Smallest* to be Mass-Produced from Silicon Working Substrate

by Artem Alekseenko

Company unveils new process to create functioning 100micron length micro-light sources with higher yield, lower cost — enabling short cavity lasers and micro-LEDs for autonomous driving, AR, and VR applications. Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Chip Technology| Kyocera| MicroLED| Virtual Reality

MICLEDI Claims Red GaN MicroLED Breakthrough for AR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Micledi Microdisplays said that it has made red (630nm) LEDs based on GaN that have a FWHM of 50nm. The firm said that the device manufacturing is compatible with MICLEDI’s proprietary …

Tags:Augmented Reality| LED| MicroLED| Semiconductors

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 …

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| Facebook/Meta| 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 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| Vuzix