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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 …

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

Oculus Makes Breakthrough on Vergence/Accomodation Conflict

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you are going to Siggraph in Los Angeles later this year, you may want to mark your calendar for a talk given by Oculus about a new class of displays they call ‘Focal …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Human Vision| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19

eMagin Develops Night Vision Systems

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Dan Cui, Chief Marketing Officer for eMagin’s HMD Division, recently gave a talk to the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter (SID-MAC) on his division. Dan has been working in the HMD/VR/AR business since 1997 when he …

Tags:eMagin| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Immy to Develop MicroLED-based HMD for AR & VR

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Immy Inc. has developed the Immy Neo iC 60 see-through HMD, initially for augmented reality (AR) applications but follow-on units will eventually be usable for virtual reality (VR) applications as well. This unit is …

Vuefine+ is Back on Kickstarter

by Norbert Hildebrand

Vuefine is one of those clip-on augmented reality displays that tried to compete with Google Glass with a much lower price tag. In 2015, they had a first Kickstarter campaign and as a result …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48| Wearables

Lumus Extends To US Navy Collaboration

by Bob Raikes

The US Navy and Lumus of Israel have been working on a new helmet for divers that adds information to the view from the helmet. The helmet is called Diver Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) …

Tags:Eyewear| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Royole Introduces 3D AM-OLED HMD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In a press event just before Pepcom in New York on Thursday, September 15th, Dr. Bill Liu, Royole (pronounced “Royal”) founder and CEO, introduced Royole’s successor to the 2D Royole X (Subscription required) Virtual …

Tags:Flexible Displays| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 37

Atheer Shares Launch Schedule

by Tom Allen

The first wave of Atheer’s Air Glasses has sold out; however, the company has said that it will have a new set of devices available in Q4. Quantities will be limited, but interested parties …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 33

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 33

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeFlir Systems‘ Cat S60 smartphone, which we saw at MWC 2016, has now been launched. It is being distributed in the UK by Southwest Technology Solutions and costs £425 ($560). The new …

Mursion’s Virtual Spaces

by Len Scrogan

The ISTE 2016 educational conference held in late June, with over 16,000 in attendance hailing from 76 countries, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. One of the newest and most interesting …

Tags:Education| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 35