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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 …

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

Peak Nanosystems Gains Backing for Thin Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Peak Nanosystems of Ohio has received $25 million in funding to help boost its production of gradient index (GRIN) optics. The company makes nano-layered polymer GRIN optics that mean that the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Magic Leap Raises More Money

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has raised $500 million on a valuation of $2 billion (down from the $6.4 billion valuation in 2019). CNBC interviewed CEO, Peggy Johnson, during which the new headset was …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Financial Data| Investment

Spend on Emerging Device Categories – including Wearables, AR/VR Headsets, and Smart Home – Will See Continued Robust Growth, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

Total value of three emerging categories of products – augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables – is expected to reach $372.1 billion by the end of this calendar year, and …

RealWear And Autodesk Break New Ground With Assisted Reality Construction Project Management Solution

by Artem Alekseenko

RealWear, the world’s leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers, announced that Autodesk and RealWear have successfully collaborated to integrate Autodesk Construction Cloud® with RealWear’s flagship HMT-1 assisted reality hands-free HMT-1 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Autodesk

NReal Air Glasses Announced

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nreal, which last week raised $100 million (Links Week Ending 24th September 2021), has announced its new iOS and (most) Android device compatible Air glasses. The glasses are a development of …

Tags:Augmented Reality

Links Week Ending 1st October 2021

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 second part of this week. Dubai Cares And LG Electronics Sign Partnership …

Huawei & Infineon Progress on AR HUDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AllAboutCircuits reported that Infineon has released a new MEMS scanner chipset of mirror and driver chip to reduce the size and boost the efficiency of laser beam scanner (LBS). technology. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Huawei

Grab Bag 2021: Education Edition

by Len Scrogan

Since not every little revelation warrants a dedicated article, my answer is to provide a periodic curation of interesting developments in the education sector. And that’s what we have here: merely a few “grab …

Tags:Augmented Reality| display technology| Education| Virtual Reality| Visualisation