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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

PetaRay launches metaverse AR technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that PetaRay is a new optics engine developer that claims to have AR light field technology designed to resolve vergence/accomodation conflict (VAC) issues. PetaRay said its optical engine for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| Micro Projectors| Taiwan

Meta Platforms Dissolves Team Developing New AR and VR Operating System

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information reported that Meta has stopped working on operating systems for AR and VR, quoting three people with knowledge of the situation. It is said to have dispersed the team …

Tags:Android| Augmented Reality| | Interfaces| Operating Systems| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality

Matterport Doing Well With Digital Twins

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of our coverage of AR & VR over the years, we have reported on Matterport, a developer of digital twins of properties, since 2015, although we haven’t reported on …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 21st February 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. Digitimes reported that Apple has conducted ‘second-phase …

Tags:AMD| Apple| Augmented Reality| GPUs| Intel| Recruitment & Appointments| Samsung| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

Qualcomm is Expanding in XR R&D & Developing ‘5G Necklace’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Auganix reported that Qualcomm is boosting its R&D investment in XR with the opening of six new labs in Europe. Separately, Engadget reported that the firm has developed a ‘5G neckband’ …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Europe| Mixed Reality| Qualcomm| R&D (Research & Development)| Smartphones| Verizon

Links Week Starting 14th February 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. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Japan| Market Data| Piracy| Semiconductor Market| STBs| Streaming Video| Virtual Reality