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Avicena Demonstrating Hottest MicroLED Optical Link

by Artem Alekseenko

Avicena is demonstrating the world’s highest temperature optical link operating at up to 235°C using its LightBundle communication architecture and technology at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023 in San Diego, CA. The Avicena …

Tags:Avicena| MicroLED| Optics

Varjo Modifies XR-3 to add ‘Retooled’ option

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Varjo has a new version of its XR-3 which boosts the clarity of the headset’s passthrough cameras when viewing objects between 30cm and 90cm (1′ to 3′) away. This makes the …

Tags:Cameras| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Printing Highly Reflective Mirrors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Alfred Poor, publisher of Health Tech Insider for pointing me to an article about the use of ink-jet printing to create Bragg mirrors. The technology has been developed …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Ending 9th September 2022

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 end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Cameras| Cinema| Cloud Gaming| Contact Lens Display| Desktop Monitors| | Financial Data| Haptics| Investment| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| MMD (AOC Philips)| Optics| PlayStation| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| sony| Virtual Reality

So what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

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

Is the VR Industry Settling on a Next Gen Architecture?

by Chris Chinnock

Based on recent news reports, it sure seems like the VR industry is moving away from Fresnel lenses to Pancake optics and switching from glass-based OLEDs or LCDs to microdisplays based on OLED-on-silicon. And …

Tags:Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| sony

Apple XR Rumours from Ming-Chi Kuo

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

Kopin Shows Flagship OLED VR Display & Pancake Optics, Its Best Yet

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

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

Links Week Starting 13th June 2022

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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

Tags:Advertising| Application Processors| ATSC| Augmented Reality| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Market Data| Mediatek| Metasurfaces| Optics| Qualcomm| Realtek| Samsung| TPV (TP Vision)| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Sets