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Guangli Brings Smart Swimming Googles V2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Guangli has developed a second generation of AR swimming goggles. the Holoswim2, that feature a ‘holographic’ (so, of course, it’s not!) OLED display of 128 x 64 resolution. The goggles are …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Sports and Stadiums

Xiaomi has New AR Glasses Based on Sony OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say China-based Apple wannabe, Xiaomi, has new AR glasses in a series that it is calling Mijia (a name also used for other products). There is a single display and dual cameras …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Xiaomi

Foveated Video Rendering Developed with Low Latency

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at Stanford have developed a “foveated” compression system that works in conjunction with gaze tracking to deliver two streams of video data at lower resolutions for non-foveal and higher for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Registration is Open for the 2022 AR/VR Display Forum

by Artem Alekseenko

DSCC is pleased to announce that registration for the AR/VR Display Forum is open. The virtual event will take place on September 20-21, 2022 and will cover the emerging display technologies for Augmented Reality …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Meta May Acquire AdHawk Micro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Meta Platforms Inc is considering buying AdHawk Microsystems Inc of Canada. which has an eye tracking system that does not use cameras and is claimed to be more …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Gaze Recognition| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Xiaomi patented magnetic components for AR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pandaily said that Xiaomi has got patents for magnetic attachment of AR components in smartglasses allowing the glasses to be used as regular spectacles. The company released an ‘exploratory version’ of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Patents| Xiaomi

Building and testing helpful AR experiences

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google published a blog saying that it plans to test more prototypes of glasses ‘in the real world’ from next month. It showed a video of a trial system, demonstrating translation, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Google Glass| Testing

Guttag Explains the Challenges of Occlusion and Passthrough AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Of course, I wondered if Karl Guttag had posted recently when I saw this news, but I ended up tracking down an interesting talk he gave on the challenges of Optical …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality