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NASA Uses AR on the Space Station

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Republicworld.com reported that NASA is launching an AR tool to help users of the International Space Station to repair and maintain the spacecraft. The system uses Microsoft Hololens headset and allows …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Microsoft

AR & the Military

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist ($) had an article about the way that AR is being used by the military, especially the US Army which has a big project that it calls IVAS (Integrated …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence

Links Week Ending 24th September 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. ‘An Invitation – A Colour the Trails …

Gazing Back to the Future (Part 2)

by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, (Gazing Back to the Future) I looked at how good it would be for PCs to be able to add gaze recognition to supplement the 40 year plus paradigm of GUI, keyboard, mouse …

Project Aria To Capture Images from Singapore

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We didn’t cover the new Facebook glasses a couple of weeks ago as they don’t have any displays and they were very widely covered. However, were interested to spot that Facebook …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta

Schott Glass Reduces Waveguide Weight by 20%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Schott published an article that announced that the firm has a new optical glass that can reduce the weight of AR waveguides by 20% but also has a Refractive Index of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google Glass| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics| Waveguide Display

Xiaomi Teases MicroLED-based Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi seems to have confused some people into thinking it was selling some new smart glasses, but the firm told ‘The Verge’ that there is no plan to put them on …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Xiaomi

Inmolens Technology is Developing Fashionable AR Smartglasses

by Arthur Berman

This article is about the INMO Air smartglasses, a product under development by Inmolens Technology Co., Limited(Shenzhen, China). As is the case in augmented reality smartglasses, computerized information is superimposed over a direct view …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| SmartGlasses

Disguise And ROE Visual Partner To Advance Extended Reality And Virtual Production

by Artem Alekseenko

In 2020, disguise launched its award-winning xR workflow that allows creative and technical teams to render photorealistic graphics content from engines like Unreal Engine on LED surfaces developed by companies like ROE Visual. With …

Tags:Augmented Reality| LED

Links Week Commencing 13th September 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 first part of this week. The best Dolby Vision movies to test …

Synchronicity in Foveation – It’s a Kind of Magic

by Bob Raikes

Synchronicity has been defined as “describing circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection”. Yesterday, I had a moment of synchronicity on one of my favourite topics – foveation – the optimisation …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality

Avegant Introduces The World’s Smallest LED Light Engines For Augmented Reality

by Artem Alekseenko

Building on its long history of delivering cutting edge AR light engines, Avegant announced its latest products — the AG-30L 30º and AG-50L 50º LED light engines. Avegant’s 30º AR light engine uses proprietary …

Tags:Augmented Reality