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Karl Guttag Digs Deep into Magic Leap Presentation

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Karl Guttag has reviewed the Magic Leap presentation presented last week and came to the conclusion that it doesn’t reveal much that couldn’t be discovered with a teardown. However, he also …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| LCOS

Scanning the Horizon at SXSWedu 2022

by Len Scrogan

The annual SXSWedu conference typically serves as the most innovative, fresh, and predictive venue for envisioning the future of the ed-tech marketplace. This year, the SXSWedu® Conference & Festival will be held in face-to-face …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?

by Bob Raikes

‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Magic Leap Details Disclosed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap was at Photonics West and gave some new information and a ‘sneak peek’ at its new headsets. The headset is said to have a weight down from 316g to …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Corning Optimises Glass for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning has a new glass formulation that has a refractive index of 2.0 and is intended to be used in waveguides for XR applications (up from 1.8 and 1.9 in previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Corning| Glass| Optics| Virtual Reality

Meta Materials Joins Lasar Alliance For Augmented Reality Wearable Devices

by Artem Alekseenko

Meta Materials Inc. a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, announced it has joined the Laser Scanning for Augmented Reality (LaSAR) Alliance, a member program of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Wearables

AR Lags VR a Lot in Volume

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research put out an interesting chart that showed the split of market shipments of XR (AR and VR) by type. The chart doesn’t show anything that we haven’t already reported, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Market Data| Virtual Reality

New Google Headset May Arrive by 2024

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge had a look at what Google is doing in augmented reality in a project known as ‘Project Iris’. The project, which has a team of around 300 people, is …

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