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CY Vision Developing Next Gen HUD Technology

by Chris Chinnock

CY Vision (San Jose, CA) is a company that has been quietly developing advanced Head-up Display (HUD) technology but is now ready to start talking about what it has been doing. In a call …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Autostereo 3D| Head Up Displays HUDs

A Visit to Plessey Semiconductor

by Chris Chinnock

Who is Plessey Semiconductor, you may ask? This does not sound like a display company, but it is. Based in Plymouth, UK, Plessey Semiconductor is developing wafer-scale microLEDs ideally suited for AR, VR and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Up Displays HUDs| MicroLED

The Highest Resolution AR Display in the World?

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I was in Madrid for the WorldATM Congress (Air Traffic Management) and I saw a replica of what might be the highest resolution augmented reality system in the world (unless you know …

A Tour of the Vuzix Waveguide Factory

by Chris Chinnock

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Vuzix CEO Paul Travers and get a tour of their waveguide manufacturing and AR headset assembly facility in Rochester, New York. These waveguides are the key …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vuzix| Waveguide Display

TCEA 2019 Giddy Up (I mean, Roundup)

by Len Scrogan

TCEA 2019, one of the largest educational technology conferences in the U.S., convened in dusty San Antonio last month and certainly did not disappoint. The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) conference is a bellwether …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

CES 2019 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

My main purpose in visiting CES this year was to catch up with trends in monitors, panels and interfaces that were important to the clients for our DisplayCast Market Research product and we managed …

Nreal AR Glasses on Show at CES

by Arthur Berman

Mixed reality technology start-up Nreal Technology Co., Ltd (Beijing, China) provided a preview of its AR glasses at the recent CES show in Las Vegas. Perhaps the most memorable impression and a particular selling …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2019| OLEDs

AR / VR – the Ultimate Winner

by Norbert Hildebrand

Now that the CES is almost over I did not want to repeat any write up of the well published new devices introduced by many companies large and small during CES. But what display …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HTC| Oculus Rift| Samsung| Virtual Reality

INT is a New Player for High-Density Displays

by Chris Chinnock

I recently had a chance to speak with executives from a new company, Taiwan-based INT Tech, which is short for Innovation and Transformation. They are a technology development house that has created AMOLED displays …

Tags:Augmented Reality| OLEDs| Sub-pixel Rendering| Virtual Reality

Microsoft Scores with $480M Hololens Army Contract

by Chris Chinnock

Microsoft announced they have received a $480M contract from the U.S. Army to develop special versions of their Hololens device dubbed the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). The contract calls for the delivery of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence

Professional VR is Different from Consumer VR

by Norbert Hildebrand

Some weeks ago I argued that VR may not be ready for consumer prime time (Is Failure of VR an Option?). This was based on the observation of a very slow uptake of consumer …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

EduCause 2018 Round Up

by Len Scrogan

EduCause, the higher-ed conference held in Denver last month, had a lot to offer the post-secondary education ed-tech crowd. Beyond the ever-present IT / Security / Infrastructure / HelpDesk / Cloud mantras, many display-related …

Tags:Augmented Reality| display technology| Education| Virtual Reality