Augmented Reality – Page 48

Four Ways Mass-Market Consumer AR Could Become Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol interviewed Qualcomm’s GM of XR Hugo Swart who set out these four ‘roads to mass-market’ adoption: VR headsets with video pass-through: Facebook’s Quest already offers a rudimentary version of this, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Qualcomm

Varjo Wants to Develop the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We listened in to a webinar by Varjo last week and the company announced that it has acquired a BIM software company, Dimension10 and wants to use technology from the firm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mergers & Acquisitions| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Facebook filed a patent for an artificial reality hat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FoundersLegal spotted a patent awarded to Facebook for an AR hat, that was filed originally in 2019. By moving the display away from a glasses format, weight and heat can be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Patents

Kopin Corporation Produces World’s First 35,000-nit HDR Green OLED Microdisplay

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays, display subassemblies and systems for defense, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products announced it has produced the world’s first ultrahigh-brightness (> 35,000 nits), high-dynamic-range …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs

New Study Projects Mobile AR Revenue to Reach $26.05 Billion by 2025

by Artem Alekseenko

ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects mobile AR annual revenue to grow from $6.87 billion in 2020 to $26.05 billion in 2025, a 30.5 percent compound annual growth rate. Entitled Mobile AR …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Augmented Reality

Kopin Outlines Material for Pancake Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kopin reported that it has developed an all-plastic ‘pancake’ optical lens system for VR, AR and MR applications. The lens system provides an image equivalent to a 250″ (635cm) diagonal display …

Kopin Corporation Announces All-Plastic Pancake® Optics with Excellent Performance

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, announced it has succeeded in developing all-plastic Pancake® optics with breakthrough performance for virtual …

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

Karl Guttag Tears Down the Nreal Technology in LG headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Karl Guttag has got access to an Nreal-based headset in the form being delivered as a product by LG in Korea and has conducted a detailed three part teardown. He liked …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics

Three longtime Magic Leap executives are heading toward the exits.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider ($) reports that three long-standing Magic Leap C-Suite execs are leaving the firm. The three are CTO Paul Greco, COO Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Kopin Receives Additional $1.6 Million Order for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin Corporation, a leading provider of high resolution microdisplays for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), announced it has received an approximately $1.6 million follow-on order of its high-brightness liquid crystal display for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Avionics| Kopin| Virtual Reality

Apple will likely launch its XR headset in Q2 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo according to 9to5Mac said in an investment note that Apple will use microOLED displays, “innovative biometrics” and as many as 15 cameras in its widely rumoured VR/AR …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

The diverse world of printing in displays: how printing impacts AMOLED, AMQLED, microLEDs,AR/VR and beyond – Part 2

by Khashayar Ghaffarzadeh

This is the second part of a summary of developments in the use of printing in display manufacture, which will be explored in more depth at the “nnovations & Market Trends In Displays & …

Tags:Augmented Reality| EL (Electroluminescent)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| MicroLED| Optics