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Digitimes Research: Japan AR/VR Market Growing Slowly

by Andrew Fenn

A new report from Digitimes Research has indicated that the Japanese AR/VR market is growing at a slower rate than other territories. With about 300,000 units sold in 2017, analysts predict that the market …

Qualcomm Plans a Wearable Chip for Kids and SD 1000?

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has a couple of new chips. The Snapdragon Wear 2500 SoC is for wearables with 4G LTE that is said to be optimised for smartwatches for children and will allow a special version …

Ed-Market Offerings at InfoComm 2018

by Len Scrogan

Having just returned from walking every aisle of InfoComm 2018, searching for promising developments and products that might offer value for the education market, what does an educator see? As an educational technology director …

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CE Week and Pepcom in New York Show Latest Systems

by Matthew Brennesholtz

CE Week was a two day event (June 20 – 21) at the Javits Center in New York, hosted by ShowStoppers in association with IFA and multiple other organizations. The CTA is not one …

AWE 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

AGC was showing its Glascene diffusion glass which is available in front or rear configurations and allows the use of projectors to create AR applications for retail and other shared spaces. The glass is …

Lumus Looking to Build Business for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

Lumus, based in Israel, is a developer of high quality waveguides for AR that it has been making for seven or eight years, through a partnership with Thales of France (and we have been …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25| Waveguide Display

Varjo Mixed Reality Demo is Impressive

by Bob Raikes

Varjo was in a hotel suite near the show and was showing the latest version of the headset that we first saw at MWC (We Get a Chance to Look at Varjo’s Headset) and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE 2018| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ThirdEye Open to Customisation

by Bob Raikes

ThirdEye is a maker of smartglasses that is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The X1 glasses are built around a complete system based on a Snapdragon 820 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of …

UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Optical Technologies is a maker of safety glasses from Brescia in Italy and has integrated VR technoology into the glasses which it has been developing for 20 years. The company is a Sony …

Iristick is Finalising its Hardware Specification

by Bob Raikes

Iristick is from Antwerp in Belgium and has developed its own smartglasses which are based on a display-only architecture mounted on certified safety glasses. The company has two versions, one with a 5 megapixel …

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AWE Expo 2018 is a Rush

by Bob Raikes

We managed to make the most of our stay on the West Coast of the USA for SID and Infocomm to make a visit to Augmented World Expo, the undoubted major event in the …

IP Wire: 10-Millionth US Patent Actually Issued to AR Firm

by Andrew Fenn

Last week, the White House held a ceremony to acknowledge that a patent filed by defence contractor Raytheon on June 19th was the 10-millionth US patent to be signed in, 228 years after the …

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