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3M & Pegatron Working on VR Headset with Folded Optics

by Bob Raikes

3M has often been the source of real innovations in the display field, so I was surprised to stumble upon a new technology for optics that seemed to have slipped by me when it …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Mixed Reality| ODMs & OEMs| Optics| Virtual Reality

3M Teams with Pegatron to Advance Virtual Reality Headset Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 3M & Pegatron announced that they are working together to develop a new VR reference design based on 3M’s reflective polariser-based ‘folded optics’ lens. The lens is said to allow smaller …

Tags:3M (MMM)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Vuzix Expands and Enhances the Connectivity of its Smart Glasses with LiFi Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vuzix put out a press release (it sends almost more than anyone!) that set out that it would support Signify’s Trulifi LiFi technology for low latency two-way wireless connectivity to its …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Li-Fi| Optics| Vuzix

Myopia correcting ‘smart glasses’ from Japan to be sold in Asia

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kubota Pharmaceutical has developed ‘smart glasses’ that are said to correct myopia (shortsightedness) without surgery. The firm said that wearing the glasses for 60 to 90 minutes per day corrects the …

Tags:Medical| Optics

KGOnTech Video Presentations On Augmented Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Graphics and optics specialist, and occasional Display Daily contributor, Karl Guttag, has released a couple of presentations that he has created for two events in the last couple of months. He …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Rokid Reveals Vision 2 AR Headset with Waveguide Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Chinese start-up, Rokid, has a new AR headset, the Rokid Vision 2, which is designed as an add-on to smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, and tablets. The firm said that it …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Optics

What’s next for AR headset display technology?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SPIE.org published an article that summarises developments in AR and emphasises that the technology is not new, but has been around for 50 years or so in some applications. The writer …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Apple Explains the Pro XDR Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Apple launched its Pro Display XDR in June 2019 (Apple Pro Display XDR has 6K and HDR) and drew quite a few comments for the price of its stand ($999!), but there was relatively …

Tags:Apple| Colour Critical Monitors| LCD Backlights| MiniLED| Optics

Apple VR headset may use fluid-filled lenses to counter a user’s bad eyesight.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AppleInsider reported on a patent from Apple for an optical system for a VR headset that uses fluid-filled lenses to accomodate the eyesight of different users. In the patent titled “Electronic …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Halide Perovskite Metasurface to aid AR and optoelectronic devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at the ITMO University in Russia have developed an approach based on perovskites that exploit the concept of metasurfaces (Developments in Metasurface Technology May Enable Ultra-Thin Lenses) to potentially create …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Metasurfaces| Optics| Perovskite

CEA LETI prints pixelated hologram on miniature 6 x 6mm component

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reports that scientists at CEA-LETI in Grenoble (it seems to be LETI week – probably related to a virtual open day it recently held) have developed a 6 x 6mm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Optics

Kopin Patents Optical Design for VR HMD Systems

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In yesterday’s Display Daily, I discussed the 2.6K x 2.6K Duo-Stack OLED device from Kopin with the ColorMax silicon backplane intended for VR/AR/MR applications. One planned application of this display is in a VR …