Empowering display industry professionals with cutting-edge insights and analysis
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Apologies – yesterday I reported on Meta’s developments in XR displays but I missed the source of that content which is a one hour video from ‘Adam Savage’s Tested’ that includes …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings (China’s most valuable tech company) has formed a business unit to address the opportunity for XR and the metaverse in software and hardware. It was formed …
Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Mixed Reality| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Nreal is adding support for the Steam game platform to its Nreal Light and Nreal Air AR glasses in a beta programme that allows the streaming of games from a PC …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | Steam Consoles
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 first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …
Tags:Advertising| Application Processors| ATSC| Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| | Market Data| Mediatek| | Optics| Qualcomm| Realtek| Samsung| TPV (TP Vision)| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Sets
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Auganix reports that MAN commercial vehicles in Romania is seeing a reduced time-to-diagnosis by 75% and cut specialists’ travel time in half following the introduction of the use of RealWear Assisted-reality …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Europe
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jon Peddie Research
4 St. Gabrielle Ct.
Tiburon, California 94920
415-435-9368
© 2025 Jon Peddie Research
