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New Near Eye Display Metrology Tools Introduced

by Chris Chinnock

We saw new developments in near eye display metrology at SID DisplayWeek from Gamma Scientific, Photo Research and Chroma. These are new tools that have been developed because of the unusual measurement needs of …

Holokit Brings Cardboard Concept to AR

by Bob Raikes

Amber Garage has created an equivalent to the Google Cardboard for AR and called the HoloKit. The design used folded cardboard with dual mirrors and a semi-transparent fresnel lens to superimpose an image of …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Display Week’s AR/VR Business Conference

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On Wednesday of AR/VR Week (excuse me, Display Week), the OLED Association and Veritas et Visus presented an AR/VR Conference as part of the SID Business track. There were about 22 speakers in four …

Worldwide Shipments of AR/VR Headsets Rise Q1 2017

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, worldwide shipments of AR and VR headsets continued to rise with a total of 2.3 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2017. IDC is also forecasting triple-digit growth for …

ICVR Wants DisplayPort Type C VR Headset Standard

by Bob Raikes

LG Electronics, Analogix Semiconductor, Tencent, and Dell have combined to establish a group, ICVR, LLC, to develop VR source interfaces for mobile devices, PCs and other consumer electronics. The aim is to use the …

Research is Showing that Augmented Reality Games Can Be a Good Thing

by Norbert Hildebrand

Having written about augmented reality (AR) hardware and software for quite some time, I am the first to admit that this topic is widely over praised or over criticized depending on the position of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 22

SID Hosts AR/VR Week

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Of course, the official name is “Display Week,” not AR/VR Week, but if you were an Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) person, there was enough to keep you busy all week long, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

US Army Shows Off Augmented Reality Device / HUD

by Norbert Hildebrand

During a demonstration day (Pentagon’s Lab Day) organized by the various research organizations of the US military, they showed off a new device called TAR (tactical augmented reality) headset that is being developed internally …

Microsoft Researching Better AR Displays

by Arthur Berman

Paraphrasing a recent publication by a team of researchers at Microsoft Research: the lightweight optics typically found in the current generation of virtual, augmented and mixed reality near-eye displays cannot be scaled to provide …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Augmented, Virtual, Annotated, Mixed… A “$37 Billion reality” by 2027

by Isaac Oburu

Augmented and virtual reality headsets are by now a reality (pun intended), and they bring about a paradigm shift in form factor for portable electronics. Despite a level of uncertainty about the terminology used …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Could AR/VR Hit $37 billion by 2027?

by Bob Raikes

IDTechEx Research believes that the market for AR/VR and “everything in between” headsets is already approaching $3.4 Billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $37 billion by 2027. The report highlights that there …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Snapchat, Facebook Fuel AR Growth

by Bob Raikes

In 2017, 40.0 million people in the US will engage with some form of augmented reality (AR) at least monthly, up 30.2% over last year, according to eMarketer’s first forecast on AR and virtual …