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India to Enter the Mixed Reality Headset Market

by Arthur Berman

Dimension NXG Pvt. Ltd. (Mumbai, India) is developing what the company claims is India’s first locally designed mixed reality headset. The product will be called the AjnaLens. The headset is pictured in the figure …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Microsoft’s Alex Kipman Confirms a New HoloLens Device

by Andrew Fenn

Microsoft’s HoloLens pioneer, Alex Kipman, recently went on record to assure consumers that a follow-up to the AR headset is still on the way, following the news that some of the HoloLens’ components are …

Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Asus Has Launched Its Windows Mixed Reality Headset

by Andrew Fenn

Asus’ HC102 Windows VR headset is finally out in the wild, priced at $430. The device releases months after offerings from HP, Dell and Lenovo, amongst others, and is priced around the middle of …

Tags:Asus| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 07

AR, VR, MR and Smartglasses – Who is Who?

by Norbert Hildebrand

With the reporting on AR, VR, MR and smartglasses at an all time high one would think that we have a clear understanding of what is what. However, as it seems that is not …

Samsung Odyssey Joins Amazon.com Mixed Reality HMD Sale

by Andrew Fenn

Amazon.com’s Windows Mixed Reality headset sale continues—and now the Samsung Odyssey is joining in. (Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Discounted on Amazon) The device is now $100 off, a 20% discount, bringing the price down …

Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Discounted on Amazon

by Andrew Fenn

Amazon.com is currently applying discounts of up to 50% on Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Acer’s offering has been slashed from $399 to $218.99, while consumers can now pick up a Lenovo Explorer with controllers …

LDM CES 2018 Catch Up

by Bob Raikes

Micro-Star International (MSI) showed a range of monitors for gaming at CES under the Optix sub-brand. There are two 27″ curved monitors with 1800R and using VA panels to support 144Hz refresh and 1ms …

Escaping the Curse of the Optional in the Ed-Tech Market

by Len Scrogan

A Texas professor, having collected AR children’s books (books that offer innovative AR components to accompany the textual reading) for some time, took the opportunity to ask a group of captive teachers to review …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Mixed Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset

by Arthur Berman

Mixed Reality capability has been included as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Mixed Reality is Microsoft’s name for the combination of augmented reality and virtual reality. In conjunction with the release …

Tags:Acer| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Football, Augmented Reality and More

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The National Football League (NFL), Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and the Thinkwell Group have teamed up to present American football fans with a mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) …

VR/AR/MR is Alive and Well for Military Training

by Chris Chinnock

VR, AR and MR applications were in every other booth at I/ITSEC 2017 where the access to game engines and inexpensive headsets are driving a revolution in the way training is done in many …

Highlights from I/ITSEC 2017

by Chris Chinnock

The Interservice/ Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training conference. Held near the beginning of December in Orlando, Florida, USA, I/ITSEC consists of peer-reviewed paper presentations, …