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Somnium Space is Developing a Headset

by Arthur Berman

The “social virtual reality platform company” Somnium Space LTD (London, England)is going into the hardware business. The company explained that “as a decentralized and open Metaverse company we cannot allow Somnium Space to be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

Google Has a ‘New’ AR Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times ran a general article on the metaverse and AR/VR. In the article, Google is reported to be working on a new AR device after acquiring the firm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Intel

Reality Check Reports Execs Leaking from Magic Leap

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check newsletter reported that a ‘string of executives’ have left Magic Leap in the last few months, including a number that joined earlier in the year after the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Recruitment & Appointments

Magic Leap Expects ML2 Next Year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap CEO, Peggy Johnson, spoke to Bloomberg Technology in a 6 minute video and said that its next headset will be available in the middle of 2022. It will be …

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Oppo Announces an Assisted Reality Device Called Air Glass

by Arthur Berman

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, doing business as Oppo (Dongguan, China) has announced a new smart glasses product called Air Glass. The product is reminiscent of Google Glass in that it is in …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Nio AR Glasses Designed for Automotive Use

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nio, a Chinese electric car start-up is developing custom AR glasses, made by Nreal for use in its vehicles. The company also said that it has developed VR glasses with Nolo, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| OLEDs| Virtual Reality

Nreal Glasses Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC reviewed the latest Nreal Light AR glasses and found them a bit heavy and disliked the need to use a tethered Android smartphone. The reviewer found they sat quite …

Tags:Augmented Reality| BBC| Testing

Links 7th January 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 last day or so! As you can imagine with the ‘firehose of …

Tags:Asus| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Google| MiniLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smartphones| Testing| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Next-Gen Smart Glasses from Mad Gaze are on the Way

by Arthur Berman

Mad Gaze is preparing to offer a new smart glasses product that has been named “Wave.” A video appended to the end of this article demonstrates the Wave smart glasses in operation. The smart …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| Waveguide Display