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Measure What the Human Eye Sees: Optical Testing of AR/VR Headsets

by Artem Alekseenko

Perfect user experience for AR/VR headsets calls for extensive, fast and highly accurate optical tests during production. In order to meet this specific challenge, Instrument Systems has developed the LumiTop AR/VR 2D imaging colorimeter. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Testing| Virtual Reality

Canon will release its MREAL S1 AR/VR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Canon has released a new lightweight headset, the MReal S1, which is mainly said to be targetted at corporations in Japan. With a price of $38.400 (full system including system and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Canon| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

KGOnTech Video Presentations On Augmented Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Graphics and optics specialist, and occasional Display Daily contributor, Karl Guttag, has released a couple of presentations that he has created for two events in the last couple of months. He …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Rokid Reveals Vision 2 AR Headset with Waveguide Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Chinese start-up, Rokid, has a new AR headset, the Rokid Vision 2, which is designed as an add-on to smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, and tablets. The firm said that it …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Optics

Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple will have a two stage approach to the headset market, starting with a higher priced niche product that will act to help the company develop its platform …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

HTC GM Predicts ‘Rise Of All-In-Two’ VR Devices In 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an interview with Upload VR, HTC’s Graham Wheeler forecast that while the self-contained Oculus Quest 2 is proving quite a success, headsets that are designed to work with 5G smartphones …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HTC| Smartphones

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KDH Says it has a Waveguide Film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The KDH Design of Taiwan talked about its “transparent AR film” that is designed for headsets and other devices. Few details were give, but the firm was started by the previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Film materials| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Waveguide Display

Ganzin’s Eye Tracking Developed with Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ganzin Technology from Taiwan said at the virtual CES that it has developed eye-tracking technology in collaboration with Qualcomm. The software is available to run on the XR2 platform and will …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Gaze Recognition| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality

Lenovo Shows ThinkReality A3 Smartglasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo showed new AR smartglasses at the Virtual CES, the ThinkReality A4 which are designed to connect to a smartphone or PC using USB Type-C. The glasses have two 1080p displays …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Lenovo| SmartGlasses