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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

VR Headset Round Table Looks at AR v VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say XR Today published a ’round table’ of views about the XR industry with representatives of HTC Vive, Varjo, Arthur and Lenovo. Most of it is uncontroversial although Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

 Microsoft’s AR hardware Plans Said to be ‘in Disarray’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider reported that Microsoft’s developments in mixed reality is a “mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company’s metaverse strategy”. The site said that in an interview …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Samsung

ARtillery Intelligence Gives its Latest AR Revenue Forecast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chief Analyst Mike Boland of ARtillery Intelligence said in a video that the AR headset will rise from last year’s 250K units to just over 4 million in 2025 which is …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data

Lumus Uploads Schott Talk on Reflective Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lumus uploaded to YouTube part of a presentation by Rüdiger Sprengard, PhD. – Head of Augmented Reality at Schott that highlighted the cooperation between the companies in developing waveguides announced in …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Glass| Optics| Waveguide Display

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