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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

Micro Projector Developer TriLite raises €8M to Boost ARVR Glasses aims

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TriLite, a maker of microprojectors for AR & VR based in Vienna, Austria, has raised €8 million in investment from VCs including Apex Ventures, B&C Innovation Investments, Hermann Hauser Investment, TEC …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laser Projectors| MEMS| Microdisplays| Virtual Reality

TCL MicroLED Glasses Use Three Mono microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has showed new AR smartglasses which it calls the Thunderbird Smart Glasses Pioneer Edition which are built around three monochrome microLEDs with a pixel pitch of 4?m. There are few …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Porotech Creates World’s First Native Red InGaN Microdisplay

by Artem Alekseenko

A microdisplay breakthrough from University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech is set to accelerate the long-awaited commercialisation of augmented reality (AR) glasses. The micro-LED pioneer has created the world’s first microdisplay based on native red …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED

US Army Delays Hololens Adoption

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that the US Army said that it was deferring the date for the start of its use of the Microsoft Hololens headsets to September 2022, but remains committed to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence| USA

Advances in OLED display @ OLEDs World Summit 2021

by Sweta Dash

OLEDs World Summit in September this year gave a glimpse of advances in OLED display technology that will shape next generation products. Flexible AMOLEDs continue to gain significant shares in the smartphone market. Large …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Head Up Displays HUDs| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Virtual Reality

An Interesting Upgrade to an Interesting AR Headset

by Arthur Berman

The X-Craft headset launched by Rokid Inc. (Redwood City, CA) last December does not look quite like other AR glasses products. Nor do the specifications to which the X-Craft was designed read like those …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Rugged Displays