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by Bob Raikes
What They Say As expected, Meta showed off its new headset: It costs $1500 It has eye- and face-tracking and colour passthrough AR using 3 Cameras. The pancake optics are 40% slimmer and IPD …
Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Pico, the start-up that is owned by TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, has released details of its new headset, the Pico 4. The unit is smaller and lighter than the Pico3 but has …
Tags:Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Protocol Entertainment said that the next Pico VR headset (from the ByteDance subsidiary) will support pass-through VR and mixed reality operation. The same feature is expected to be in the forthcoming …
Tags:Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the ‘better than Quest’ Cambria headset will be launched in October at the Connect 2022 event (date tba) and that …
Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long form ‘Medium’ platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He’s been at Disney, Keyhole (acquired by Google), Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and has had his own …
Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Scientists at Stanford have developed a “foveated” compression system that works in conjunction with gaze tracking to deliver two streams of video data at lower resolutions for non-foveal and higher for …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Bloomberg reports that Meta Platforms Inc is considering buying AdHawk Microsystems Inc of Canada. which has an eye tracking system that does not use cameras and is claimed to be more …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | Gaze Recognition| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Of course, I wondered if Karl Guttag had posted recently when I saw this news, but I ended up tracking down an interesting talk he gave on the challenges of Optical …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he thinks there will be multiple MR headsets starting with an expensive high end device, and then with two further versions, one at a lower …
Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say RoadtoVR reported on a recent demo by Kopin of its latest OLED display at AWE 2022 and also highlighted the pancake optics that the firm has been developing. Kopin’s P95 pancake …
Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Kopin| Mixed Reality| OLEDs| Optics| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Chinese market researcher, Sigmaintell, has issued a new report on AR and VR and said that sales of VR headsets reached 11.2 million in 2021, up 65% year on year. It …
Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Apologies – yesterday I reported on Meta’s developments in XR displays but I missed the source of that content which is a one hour video from ‘Adam Savage’s Tested’ that includes …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| | Virtual Reality
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