Augmented Reality – Page 39

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

Vuzix Announces Agreement with Verizon to Deliver Augmented Reality with 5G and Mobile Edge Compute

by Artem Alekseenko

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that the Company has entered into an agreement with Verizon to leverage the power of Verizon’s 5G and …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Verizon| Vuzix

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 …

Tags:Augmented Reality

MICLEDI Announces 300mm MicroLED Production Breakthrough Poised to Set the High-Water Mark for Augmented Reality Glasses

by Artem Alekseenko

MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading technology company in the field of microLED displays for high-end Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, has demonstrated the industry’s first microLED arrays-for-AR built on a 300mm CMOS manufacturing platform. The unparalleled …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED

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 …

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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 …

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

Google is Recruiting for AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google was widely reported to have been hiring new employees to develop software for the control of AR devices after hiring former Meta/Oculus VR manager Mark Lucovsky to lead an “Augmented …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Recruitment & Appointments