HMDs (Head Mounted Displays) – Page 7

Somnium Space is Developing a Headset

by Arthur Berman

The “social virtual reality platform company” Somnium Space LTD (London, England)is going into the hardware business. The company explained that “as a decentralized and open Metaverse company we cannot allow Somnium Space to be …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

Omdia Research Reveals 12.5m Consumer VR Headsets Sold in 2021 with Content Spend Exceeding $2bn

by Artem Alekseenko

New research from Omdia indicates that the consumer virtual reality (VR) market will be worth $16 billion by 2026, a 148% increase on 2021. The latest outlook comes from Omdia’s Consumer VR Headset and …

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

HMDmd Introduces Pre-Clinical Prototypes of Head-Worn Display System for Surgery

by Artem Alekseenko

HMDmd, Inc. announced that pre-clinical prototypes of their head-worn display system, designed specifically for applications in surgery and interventional medicine, are now available for development and evaluation by OEM system partners. The DEK21 Wearable …

Tags:CES 2021| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Medical

Kopin Begins Shipments on $3.5 Million Production Order for its Brillian Display for the U.S. Army’s Common Helmet Mounted Display System

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading provider of high-resolution microdisplays for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), announced it has recently started production deliveries of its new superhigh-brightness, full-color Brillian Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display …

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

Links Week Ending 22nd October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Headset maker Pimax to Hold Launch Event …

An Interesting Upgrade to an Interesting AR Headset

by Arthur Berman

The X-Craft headset launched by Rokid Inc. (Redwood City, CA) last December does not look quite like other AR glasses products. Nor do the specifications to which the X-Craft was designed read like those …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Rugged Displays

Pico Interactive Releases Neo 3 Pro and Neo 3 Pro Eye standalone VR headsets

by Artem Alekseenko

Pico Interactive, one of the world’s leading developers of innovative VR (virtual reality) solutions for enterprise use, announced the full commercial release of their two highly anticipated new standalone VR headsets: Pico Neo 3 …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

Schott Glass Reduces Waveguide Weight by 20%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Schott published an article that announced that the firm has a new optical glass that can reduce the weight of AR waveguides by 20% but also has a Refractive Index of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google Glass| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics| Waveguide Display

Jade Bird WaveOptics Partnership to Enable microLED Smartglasses

by Chris Chinnock

Jade Bird Display, a key developer of microLED microdisplays, has partnered with WaveOptics, a major supplier of waveguide optics to create a new reference design for AR smartglasses. Dubbed Leopard, the development kit includes …

Apple Wins Headset patent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say PatentlyApple reported that Apple has been granted a US patent for a mixed reality headset with a 3D display that can dynamically focus images directly onto the retina to correct for …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Patents| Virtual Reality

A Full Face XR Headset is Available from Spartan HUD

by Arthur Berman

Startup Spartan HUD (Toronto, Canada) has started to sell a product called the Spartan HUD Helmet (Flagship Edition). The Spartan HUD augments the user’s vision through overlays on a high definition LCD. The mixed …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales Hit Record 4.6 mn as XR Headset Shipments Almost Triple YoY in Q1 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

The Extended Reality (XR) headset shipments almost tripled annually in Q1 2021, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker. The Oculus Quest 2 success drove these volumes. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Market| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality