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Pico Neo 3 Reviewed – it’s Good but no Buy Recommendation

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR got its sticky fingers on a Pico Neo 3 headset and reviewed it. It points out that from a display point of view, the headset is the same as the …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

LetinAR Makes Big Progress on AR Optics

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been reporting on Korean AR optics company LetinAR since we met up with them in the Sands Eureka Park at CES 2018 and immediately the appeal of the technology was apparent to me. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics

Meta shows its AR/VR work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just …

Apple has Patented Several New HMD-related Technologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say PatentlyApple reported that Apple has been granted a US patent for a system to cool head-mounted displays. The aim of the patent is to get over the problem that the lightweight …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Patents

Nvidia Creates Slim VR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nvidia has worked with scientists at Stanford University to develop holographic glasses that are just 2.5mm thick, but get over the vergence/accommodation conflict issue as they seem to be genuinely holographic. …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Nvidia

Bringing Greater Reality to VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at Stanford University have published a paper describing how it used a client (VR headset)/server system that fed details on the user’s gaze to the server to allow frame-based foveated …

Tags:Codecs| Foveated Rendering| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Video Encoders & Decoders

SID’s 60th Anniversary – Optimism in the Face of Falling Panel Prices, Demand and Profitability (Part 1)

by Barry Young

Ross Young, CEO of DSCC started the Business Conference with a message that the last two years saw record breaking revenues, shipments and profits, but warned that it would take four years before the …

Nreal to Release Glasses in the UK

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Various sources reported that Nreal has done a deal with UK mobile carrier EE to sell its Nreal Air glasses later this year. The device is intended to be connected to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)

Asia Pacific AR/VR Market for Headsets Grew by 60% in 2021, According to Latest IDC Report

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IDC put out a release that highlighted that the market for AR/VR headsets grew by 60.8% in the Asia Pacific region last year and reached 2.19 million units. Chinese brands took …

Imint and SIM Technology Collaborate to Establish a New Standard in Industrial AR Headset and Head-Worn Camera Video Performance

by Artem Alekseenko

IMINT Image Intelligence AB, a global leader in video enhancement software, announced it has partnered with SIM Technology, a leading IoT and mobile communication device manufacturer, to elevate the video performance of its AR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cameras| Collaboration| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

VR Panel Shipments to Reach 15.8M Units in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published an interesting forecast for VR devices and said that 15.8 million panels will be used in VR headsets this year – with over 80% of the demand coming from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Market Data| Virtual Reality

NIL Technology launches flat optics platform for ARVR glasses, headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a Danish optics firm, NIL Technology, is developing nanostructured flat optics for applications including AR/VR glasses and headsets. The firm told the site that its flat optics has …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Metasurfaces| Optics| Virtual Reality