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Links Week Starting 28th March 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 first part of this week. AOC: 23.8″ WQHD 165Hz 1ms G2G monitor …

Radiant Vision Systems Announces New XRE Lens Solution with Electronic Focus for Near-Eye Display Testing

by Bob Raikes

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of visual test and measurement solutions for light sources and displays, announces the release of its new XRE Lens for near-eye display testing of extended reality (XR) headsets …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Lenses| Radiant| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 25th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the …

Micledi Collaborating with GlobalFoundries.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Micledi Microdisplays of Leuven in Belgium said that it has done a deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) for the chipmaker to integrate the Micledi microLED arrays with the GF 22FDX platform. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Semiconductors

Finding Nimo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wired talked to an Indian company, Nimo Planet, that is developing AR glasses that are intended to act as possible replacements for notebook displays, although they don’t need to be tethered …

Tags:Augmented Reality| India

AR/VR Headset Shipments Grew Dramatically in 2021, Thanks Largely to Meta’s Strong Quest 2 Volumes, with Growth Forecast to Continue, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The worldwide market for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets grew 92.1% year over year in 2021 with shipments reaching 11.2 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| IDC| Virtual Reality

Fan Sets out His Thoughts on VR and MicroOLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wearables-era.com published an interview with John Fan, CEO of Kopin, looking at developnments in AR/VR. He said that Disruption of markets by new technologies often happen from doing one thing very …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED| OLEDs| Virtual Reality

IVAS US Defence Development Struggling?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Microsoft is “expecting negative feedback from the customer” in its development of a headset, known as IVAS and based on the HoloLens. The article suggested …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence

AR Insider Gets Hands-On with Snap Spectacles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARInsider has ‘finally’ got to try a pair of Snap spectacles with AR functions, under the supervision of Snap. They are not yet available for sale. The blog said that they …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

What Magic Leap 2 means for consumer AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has let some reviewers have a look at its new ML2 headset and we saw reports from the Information’s Reality Check and Protocol Entertainment. The headset uses LCOS displays …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

Dispelix and AAC Announce Strategic Partnership

by Artem Alekseenko

Dispelix, the leader in see-through waveguide displays for AR & MR wearables, and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., the world-leading solutions provider for smart devices, announce a strategic partnership to ensure the AR & MR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Wearables

OPPO Air Glass to be available for purchase in China from next month for 4,999 yuan ($791)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizmoChina reported that the Oppo Air Glass system (Oppo announces the Air Glass monocle AR device) is due to be on sale in China at 4,999 yuan (~$791) in silver or …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China