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Microsoft Says Hololens Reached A Huge Milestone for Military

by Bob Raikes

What They Say After last week’s talk of problems with the Microsoft Hololens and its challenges in the big defence contract that it has in the US, VR Times reports Microsoft chief AI and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence

Report: emerging optics to displace Fresnel lenses in XR headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Analyst IDTechEx has put out a report on headset optics highlighting birdbath, holographic and dynamic focus optics as being likely to replace Fresnel lenses in XR headsets over the next decade. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

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Meta to Drop Project Nazare AR Glasses Plan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta appears to have made a couple of changes to its device plans, with the Portal video conferencing product moving from the consumer to be developed for the B2B market. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Smartwatches| VideoConferencing| Voice Input

HoloLens Teams are Reorganised

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reports that HoloLens co-creator Alex Kipman is to depart from Microsoft after allegations of misconduct. The hardware teams will be absorbed by the “Windows + Devices” organization …

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

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Lumus Brings out its Latest AR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lumus, a waveguide specialist, has been showing its latest AR headset at AWE in Santa Clara. It is now using what it calls 2D expansion (which sounds like the same kind …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Micro Projectors| Microdisplays| Waveguide Display

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Apple Adds Some AR Functions, but no News on Delayed Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There was lots of speculation before this week’s Apple WWDC event about support for AR and any news or hints about the expected upcoming Apple AR/VR headset. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 17th June 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 end of this week. Disney+ ramps up LG TV rollout Technicolor to …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| CPUs| Desktop Monitors| Disney| Game Playing| Iiyama| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Smart TV| sony| tablets| Technicolor| Virtual Sets

Mojo Gets Its MicroLEDs Working

by Bob Raikes

At Display Week, I had the chance to moderate the CEO Forum and the panel included Nikhil Balram of Mojo Vision who told me that he had joined the firm partly to help it …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Oppo is presenting its Air Glass in the US for the first time.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has been showing its ‘Air Glass’ at the AWE 2022 event in North America. The device is a monocular device based around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100 chip and with a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Smartphones| USA

What Displays Have to Do to Bring AR Superpowers

by Bob Raikes

One of my vices is trying to play musical instruments and a lot of musicians suffer from ‘option paralysis’. That is to say, when presented with the infinite flexibility of DSP-based digital options, they …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| SID Display Week 2022| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality| Waveguide Display

TriLite and Dispelix to create AR glasses projection display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trilite of Austria has combined with Dispelix of Finland to optimise the Trilite laser beam scanning (LBS) projector with the Dispelix waveguide. The Trixel 3 projector is said to be the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laser Projectors| MEMs Displays| Waveguide Display