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Japanese Looking for Safer Motorbikes – with Smart Helmets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an article about the development of the motorcycle market in Japan, Nikkei reported on information being shown in ‘smart helmets’. The Nikkei also reports that Robert Bosch has a distance …

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

Mercedes Korea Adds A/R to Navigation System

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported on the latest Mercedes E Class, said to be the best selling imported car in Korea, and highlighted that it has a new Augmented Reality navigation system. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Korea

Tilt Five Gets Series A Funding for AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Stinger Report had news of a new investment of $7.5 million in Series A funding for its headset platform. The blog said that the company was started following the collapse …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Game Playing

DIY Smart Glasses Guide From Here to There

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Healthtechinsider reported that a hacker has developed a pair of glasses that can signal directions for wayfinding using coloured LEDs in glasses frames. He designed the frames and has released the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses

Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| display technology| Education| Keyboards| Virtual Reality

Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

Having borrowed the gear nearly a week beforehand, I finally found some disposable time to sit down and give my son’s Oculus Quest VR a robust test drive. I was so looking forward to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

The Lynx R1 Mixed Reality Headset is About Ready to Ship

by Arthur Berman

Lynx (Paris, France) is about ready to ship the company’s redesigned headset, the Lynx R1. Configured for mixed reality, the headset can present in either virtual or augmented reality. The headset is stand-alone meaning …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality

Oppo Updates OLED AR glasses prototypes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As well as a prototype rollable smartphone, (Oppo’s X 2021 rollable concept phone expands in your hand), Oppo showed an update to prototype glasses shown last year. The Oppo AR Glass …

Tags:Augmented Reality| OLEDs| Smartphones

Dedicated AR Headset Forecast by Device Type 2013-2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics expects the dedicated AR headset market to be worth over $18 billion and grow to an installed base of 57 million units by 2025. Slot-in, smartphone-based AR accounts for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data