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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 …

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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 …

Microsoft Research Publishes Results on a Phase Only Holographic Projection System

by Norbert Hildebrand

Siggraph 2017 is shaping up to be a very interesting conference for holographic display enthusiasts. Just a little while ago Facebook / Oculus announced their work on a head mounted display system to overcome …

AR & VR Round-up At Itec

by Bob Raikes

Cinoptics is a Dutch company (it was on the Netherland booth) and is a development from Cybermind, which developed virtual reality for more than twenty years. “Back to the days of Virtuality”, I said …

Tags:Augmented Reality| ITEC 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19

US Marines Enhance AR Training

by Norbert Hildebrand

While this new training tool used by the US Marines is not quite on the level of ‘The Matrix’, it still allows enhancement of the particular areas of training in real life soldiers at …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Training| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Google To Develop Stand-Alone VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

Google announced at its Google I/O developer event that it would ship a stand-alone headset version of its DayDream VR technology, rather than relying on a smartphone as a display. Google said that building …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19