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Is Niantic making its own AR smart glasses?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Niantic, the firm behind the Pokémon Go phenomenon, and a spin-out from Google in 2010, has launched a new development kit for AR. Although executives of the firm have spoken negatively …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse

Color OLED Microdisplay Exceeds 10,000 Nits

by Ken Werner

On October 29 in a conference room on New York City’s Park Avenue, eMagin Corp. (Hopewell Junction, New York) demonstrated the world’s first full-color OLED microdisplay with a luminance greater than 10,000 cd/m² (Fig. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eMagin| Microdisplays| OLEDs

AR Waveguide Leader Dispelix Announces $33M Investment

by Artem Alekseenko

Dispelix®, the technology leader for extremely lightweight single-layer waveguides and see-through displays for Augmented Reality(AR), announced it has closed a $33M Series-B round led by Atlantic Bridge alongside new investors CCB Trust and Flashpoint. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Waveguide Display

Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

by Sri Peruvemba

From large outdoor interactive screens on buildings to tiny displays in wristwatches, the display industry has created applications and entire industries over the past 60 years, transforming our entire society. Just take a look …

Tags:Augmented Reality| display technology| EL (Electroluminescent)| Electrochromic Displays| Electrowetting| EPD (Electrophoretic)| LCD displays| OLEDs| Rear Projection

Power On Says Mixed Reality Headset ‘As Early as Next Year’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In his ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first headset will be out next year and will support ‘mixed reality’ that is to say a VR experience …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR

Metaverse – Meta and Drink for Critics

by Bob Raikes

I’ve been trying to hold out from reflecting on it, but I don’t think I can really resist commenting on the Mark Zuckerberg concept of the metaverse, at least as I understand it. (I …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Turkey Goes for Military AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Two Turkish firms, Aselsan Bites and Aselsan Sivas, have signed deals with the country’s defence authorities to develop a “smart augmented reality glasses prototype” for the needs of the security forces …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence

Advances in MicroLED to be Presented at the AR/VR Display Forum

by Artem Alekseenko

MicroLED is a disruptive display technology that promises high brightness and high contrast while keeping power consumption low. These features are particularly relevant for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications to deliver …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Virtual Reality