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Team of Designers Create a Range of VR Headset Prototypes

by Andrew Fenn

A team of designers from industrial firm Nonobject have created a range of head-mounted display (HMD) prototypes, targeting improved comfort, outward appearance and ease of use as VR is adopted into more and more …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 44

CES Unveiled: Technology Showcase

by Matthew Brennesholtz

CES Unveiled New York was held by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), owners of CES, on November 9, 2017. The talks discussing the upcoming CES 2018 in Las Vegas were covered in my Display …

Royole Moon 3D Mobile Theater Takes Home German Design Award

by Andrew Fenn

Royole Corporation’s Moon 3D Mobile Theater HMD has been named as a winner in the Entertainment category of the 2018 German Design Awards. The German Design Awards began in 2012, with 1,500 entrants. This …

Tags:Back Panel| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

The MovieMask Portable Cinema HMD

by Arthur Berman

MovieMask (Oslo, Norway) is developing the next offerings in the company’s “portable cinema” line of HMD products. The original idea behind the MovieMask was the thought that “today’s media consumption is more and more …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 40

ABI: Logistics Industry Will Continue to Lead in AR Shipments

by Andrew Fenn

According to a new report by ABI Research, logistics will continue to be the industry leader in augmented reality for enterprise. ABI estimates that logistics will account for 24% of smart glass shipments worldwide, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

An AR Headset Designed for Minimally Invasive Surgery

by Arthur Berman

Founded in 2014 with seed financing from TerraLab, an incubator of the Israeli Innovation Authority, Augmedics Ltd. (Yokne’am Illit, Israel) is a startup developing a device called the ViZOR System. The device is an …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Medical| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Dell Debuts a Mixed Reality Headset

by Arthur Berman

Dell Inc. presented a Windows 10-based mixed reality headset earlier this month at the IFA conference in Berlin. The company stated that the headset was designed not only to provide the user with an …

The Cinera “Immersive Personal Theater” Headset

by Arthur Berman

Founded in 2014, the mission of Cinera Inc. (Newark, DE) has been to develop a product to address what they feel is an opportunity in an under served market. The company web site describes …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Laser Displays and Lighting

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I recently got details of a display meeting that should be of interest to readers, but is not often covered in the press. The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) hosted the 6th Laser Display …

HTC Lowers Price for Vive Headset

by Norbert Hildebrand

Sales for virtual reality headsets have not been overwhelming so far. One potential obstacle is the price that makes buying a VR headset more of an investment rather than an impulse buy. HTC is …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Kopin’s ‘Elf’ Headset Delivers High Res Images

by Bob Raikes

We spotted an interesting article on the Road to VR blog which highlights that a development platform headset being developed by Goertek, based on Kopin’s design and microdisplays, is a very light unit and …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 31

RaphTime is Developing a Mixed Reality HMD

by Arthur Berman

RaphTime (Beijing, China) is developing a mixed reality HMD product called the RT Fusion. Similar to the more prominent HoloLens HMD from Microsoft, the RaphTime device is see-through, overlaying video imagery on a view …