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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 …

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 …

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 …

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!) …

Report: emerging optics to displace Fresnel lenses in XR headsets

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

Nvidia Shows A Holographic Display with a Glasses-Like Form Factor

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Jonghyun Kim along with colleagues at Nvidia Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) and collaborators at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) are developing a holographic display in a glasses-like form …

Tags:Holography| Nvidia| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

EdgeVR has opened its first VR location

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EdgeVR in New York has opened a new location that uses ‘magnetic, full-body tracking technology’ to locate other players within virtual space. The operators said that the advantage of magnetic tracking …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Metasurfaces| Optics| USA| Virtual Reality

What Displays Have to Do to Bring AR Superpowers

by Bob Raikes

One of my vices is trying to play musical instruments and a lot of musicians suffer from ‘option paralysis’. That is to say, when presented with the infinite flexibility of DSP-based digital options, they …

Meta Teases Progress on Clearer VR Vision

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the recent SID Display Week Keynote, Meta gave some information on the use of stacked LC lenses to allow variable focus in XR headsets. RoadtoVR summarised a paper given at …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics| Virtual Reality