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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 …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings (China’s most valuable tech company) has formed a business unit to address the opportunity for XR and the metaverse in software and hardware. It was formed …
Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Mixed Reality| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Analyst IDTechEx has put out a report on headset optics highlighting birdbath, holographic and dynamic focus optics as being likely to replace Fresnel lenses in XR headsets over the next decade. …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say There was lots of speculation before this week’s Apple WWDC event about support for AR and any news or hints about the expected upcoming Apple AR/VR headset. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted …
Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
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
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 first part of this week. ISE Says 43,691 People Attended Just-ended Trade …
Tags:Apple| audio| E Ink| eReaders| Germany| India| ISE 2022| LED| Mixed Reality| Pay TV| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Spain| Sports and Stadiums| TVs (TV Sets)| Vizio| Vodafone| warranty| Wearable Market
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Protocol Entertainment’s Janko Roettgers got a chance to try a pre-release version of the Meta Cambria headset, which is intended as a higher specified headset after the Quest 2. He said …
Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
I had a chance last week to go to the IT²EC 2022 event at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands area. It was less busy than the BETT a couple of months ago, but …
Tags:Mixed Reality| Simulation| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say XR Today reports that Shenzhen MetaVision Tech Co has announced a new VR device, the Particle, weighing just 250 gms and with the following specification: A lightweight form factor of just …
Tags:BOE| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
What They Say After Meta’s earnings call, there have been lots of reports about the firm’s XR plans, with an emphasis on the Project Cambria headset. There was also interest because it builds on …
Tags:| Mixed Reality| | Virtual Reality
by Bob Raikes
As I have written before, I have been somewhat sceptical of the whole Metaverse thing (I saw a headline about a ‘Metaverse hotel’ today – how bizarre is that concept?). (Metaverse – Meta and …
Tags:Augmented Reality| CAD-CAM-CAE| Cloud Computing| Mixed Reality|
by Bob Raikes
What They Say RoadToVR reported on a new Enterprise Headset from Canon that looks as though it will, at least for the moment, not be sold outside Japan and is likely to be expensive …
Tags:Canon| Mixed Reality
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