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Looking Through Mojo Vision’s Newest AR Contact Lens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported some information about the demos that Mojo Vision has been giving. The first article we saw has been supplemented by more information in IEEE Spectrum, which also got to …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Lumus Planning More Consumer Targeted Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check said that Lumus, the maker of high end waveguides for AR displays, is planning two lower resolution versions. The firm’s Maximus waveguide supports up to 2048 x …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| Waveguide Display

NIL Technology launches flat optics platform for ARVR glasses, headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a Danish optics firm, NIL Technology, is developing nanostructured flat optics for applications including AR/VR glasses and headsets. The firm told the site that its flat optics has …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Metasurfaces| Optics| Virtual Reality

AR and VR are coming for the primary school crowd

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment reported that although Meta has said that its Quest 2 headset is for ages 13 and up (which gets around US regulations that apply to 12s and under), others …

Tags:Amazon| Augmented Reality

Alibaba Invests in Nreal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Alibaba has invested $60 million in Nreal in a “series C+” round of funding – which follows on from a $100 million round last September that valued the firm at $700 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment

Mojo Vision Has a Prototype

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mojo Vision, which is developing contact lens AR displays (Mojo Vision Developing NanoLEDs) said that it has developed an ‘advanced prototype’ although nobody is said to have worn one, yet. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| R&D (Research & Development)

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