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AR dog goggles could help protect Soldiers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US army has a research programme to make AR glasses for dogs so that they can get commands while their handlers remain hidden. At the moment, the handlers use hand …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence

Automotive Leaders Invest in UK Pioneering Holographic Technology Company Envisics

by Artem Alekseenko

Envisics, a market leader and inventor of enabling dynamic holographic technologies for augmented reality head-up displays (AR HUDs), has received an investment of ~$50m from a number of highly complementary blue-chip automotive companies following …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs

Foxconn Developing microLED AR smart glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Foxconn is developing microLED-based AR smart glasses with Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) as part of a three year ITRI project. The EOSRL devices are said …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foxconn (Honhai)| MicroLED

ISTE 2020 Conference Preview

by Len Scrogan

Every year I provide a conference session analysis of this respected conference for our readers, and this year will be no different. By examining the panoply of ISTE 2020 conference sessions (600 in all), …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| Virtual Reality

Thinking about Educational VR/AR in the Covidian Age

by Len Scrogan

There’s always something in the air these days. Here in Colorado, it was just another smoky day, the hazy high-altitude air filled with particulates from the many forest fires actively burning in our mountains. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Education| Virtual Reality

VR Headset Market Expected to Grow Despite Short-Term Decline, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

As the world continues to deal with the pandemic, the market for virtual reality (VR) headsets is expected to decline 6.7% in 2020 before returning to double-digit growth of 46.2% in 2021, according to …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| IDC| Virtual Reality

Bias and Ethics in Spatial Computing

by Len Scrogan

It seems like ethics are often an afterthought in our permissionless race towards more and better technology. And the more ubiquitous a given technology becomes, the more our senses are dulled to any Mr. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality