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Google Glass Updated

by Bob Raikes

Google has surprised a lot of people, including owners (are there still any users?) by updating the Google Glass software for the first time in three years and adding support for bluetooth connectivity which …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Google Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 23

IDC Bullish on AR & VR

by Bob Raikes

IDC has forecast that AR and VR headset sales will grow with a CAGR of 57.7% from just under 10 million units to just under 100 million by 2021. VR headsets have led much …

Varjo Announces High resolution VR Solution

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Finnish start- up company Varjo (meaning shadow in Finnish) emerged from stealth operations by announcing a high resolution head mounted display system that far exceeds, by their measurements, any other AR / VR …

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 …