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BOE Causes Analyst Overload!

by Bob Raikes

BOE has been making a bigger and bigger impact at each of the last several SID Display Weeks and this year it impressed even more. We started by looking at a flexible OLED concept …

Mobile AR Users to Reach 1bn+ by 2021

by Bob Raikes

Digi-Capital has published an interesting blog that suggests that there will be an ‘epic battle’ between Facebook, Apple, Google, Tencent, Snap, Alibaba, Baidu, Samsung, Huawei and more after Mark Zuckerberg’s comment in April that …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Apple Announces iOS 11 with Many New Features Including AR

by Norbert Hildebrand

At its Worldwide developer conference, Apple announced many new features for iOS 11 that will be coming to the consumer in the fall of this year. For now, the features will be made available …

IC09 Vuzix Says Glasses Must be Light & Fashionable

by Bob Raikes

Paul Travers is President and CEO of Vuzix based in Rochester and the company is 20 years old. It has offices in the UK and Japan and investors include Intel Capital. After many years, …

IC03 Kopin Has a Real Business in AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

Hong Choi is from Kopin and replaced Dr John Fan, who was due to speak. Choi is CTO for the company. Kopin is focused on AR & VR and is shipping displays, supplying ip …

KN2 Google Makes AR/VR Display Breakthroughs

by Bob Raikes

Clay Bavor is from Google where he is the VP responsible for AR & VR. After checking with the audience how many people had tried ‘good VR’, he explained that when he introduces people …

AR and VR on the SID Exhibition Floor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

There were a number of AR and VR systems on the Display Week show floor that weren’t represented in either the AR/VR Business Conference or the Technical sessions. This article is intended to give …

AR/VR Technical Sessions at Display Week

by Matthew Brennesholtz

One of the highlights of Display week for a person with a technical background like me are the technical sessions. I attended most of the Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) sessions and …

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

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 …