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The Biggest VR Display?

by Bob Raikes

This was one of those weeks when there wasn’t a lot of news that was suitable for the front page. Still, we found plenty to talk about. I had hoped to get the report …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Toshiba AR100 is ‘Powered by Vuzix’

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a deal between Vuzix and Toshiba at the end of last year (Vuzix Signs Exclusive Supply Agreement with Toshiba) and now Toshiba has introduced dynaEdge AR glasses. The glasses can be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 25 - Issue 10| Vuzix

Sony Brings AR Projection Concept to SXSW Film Festival

by Andrew Fenn

Sony has unveiled conceptual AR projector technology at this year’s SXSW film festival, currently taking place in Austin, Texas. The technology uses the company’s Xperia Touch projector with its IMX382 high-speed vision sensors and …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Bose Introduces Audio Augmented Reality Platform

by Andrew Fenn

Bose has introduced its augmented reality platform, Bose AR. The company also announced its SDK schedule date for developers, manufacturers and research institutions, along with collaborations currently under way and venture funding for related …

Tags:AR/VR| audio| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Magic Leap Announces Additional Investments from Saudi Arabia

by Andrew Fenn

Magic Leap has raised an additional $461 million in Series D funding. $400 million of this new investment came from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, with “new investors” contributing the remaining …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 10

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Blue Light| Gaze Recognition| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| OTT Video| Touch Market| Transparent Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

MWC 2018 Roundup Part 1

by Bob Raikes

Abenecel was at the 4YFN event and is based in Korea. The company is a technology licensing company that has a patented compression pre-processing system that can be used for graphics files and can …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Codecs| Flexible Displays| Interfaces| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Projectors| Retail| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

ABI: Augmented Reality Hardware Market at Innovation Inflection Point

by Andrew Fenn

As AR continues to create a beachhead in enterprise and shows promise for consumer AR in the coming years, attention is being paid, not only to the potential applications for AR but also to …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 25 - Issue 09

LetinAR Developing its Pin Mirrors for AR

by Bob Raikes

We reported briefly on LetinAR from CES, but we caught up with them only at the very end of the show and had no time to discuss with them. There was a little more …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Virtualitics Closes $7 Million Series B Funding Round

by Andrew Fenn

Virtualitics has announced the close of a $7 million Series B round of equity funding led by Centricus, a global investment platform, with participation from existing investor The Venture Reality Fund and other private …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Announces New Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR Reference Design

by Andrew Fenn

Qualcomm has unveiled a new virtual reality reference platform based on the company’s powerful Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform. Debuting at the Snapdragon Tech Summit in December, the platform features a variety of new architectures …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 07

AR, VR, MR and Smartglasses – Who is Who?

by Norbert Hildebrand

With the reporting on AR, VR, MR and smartglasses at an all time high one would think that we have a clear understanding of what is what. However, as it seems that is not …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 07