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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
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
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
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| | Market Data| Mediatek| | Optics| Qualcomm| Realtek| Samsung| TPV (TP Vision)| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Sets
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 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
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)| | Optics| USA| Virtual Reality
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 …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | Microdisplays| OLEDs| Optics| SID Display Week 2022| | Virtual Reality| Waveguide Display
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
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The Elec reports that LG Display is considering introducing microlenses to its WOLED panels to boost brightness by up to 20% bringing peak luminance up to around 1200 cd/m² What We …
Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Optics
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Sony has posted a video showing its development of Holographic Optical Elements in R&D. The material can be used to show apparently 3D images when illuminated by a projector. The firm …
Tags:Holographic Displays| Optics
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