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Kopin Corporation Announces New All-Plastic Pancake® Optics with Excellent Performance for Virtual Reality (Metaverse) Applications

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, announced it has developed a new all-plastic Pancake® optics for its new-generation 1.3” 2.6K …

Tags:Kopin| Microdisplays| OLEDs| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Meta Platforms Halts VR and AR Operating System Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although the Information reported that Meta was stopping development of a new O/S to support AR and VR, and would focus on modifying Android, but Bloomberg got a quote from Meta …

Tags:Android| Facebook/Meta| Operating Systems| The Metaverse

Smart glasses could arrive in 2022, but will still need a lot of work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A writer at CNET, Scott Stein, wrote an interesting article about his experiences with smartglasses in 2021. He has tried devices from Lenovo, Nreal and Ray-Ban and despite being keen on …

Tags:Human Vision| SmartGlasses| The Metaverse

Links Week Ending 17th December 2021

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 second part of this week. It’s Awkward Being a Woman in the …

Links Week Commencing 13th December 2021

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 second part of this week. https://youtu.be/WU0gvPcc3jQ – check out this 10 minute …

Compal Partners with Nvidia to Construct Enterprise Metaverse

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes reported that Compal is partnering with Nvidia to build a ‘metaverse for enterprises’. The metaverse will be built using Compal’s XR Cube solution, which supports a variety of VR/AR devices …

Tags:Compal| Nvidia| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Ultraleap Raises £60 Million in Series D Fundraise to be the Primary Interface for the Metaverse

by Artem Alekseenko

Ultraleap, the world leader in interface technologies – hand tracking and mid-air haptics – announced it has completed a £60 million ($82 million) Series D round of investment. The raise will enable Ultraleap to …

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Links Week Ending 19th November 2021

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 second part of this week. The Economist Looks at the Metaverse ($) …

What next? 22 emerging technologies to watch in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist looked at 22 emerging technologies that could see significant developments in 2022. Only two are significant for displays, the first being the possible development of VR headsets for exercise …

Tags:display technology| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

The Case for Screen Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A writer on a fatherhood blog has made a case for allowing children to enjoy screen time partly on the basis that with the rapid rate of development in the world …

Tags:Game Playing| The Metaverse

Is Niantic making its own AR smart glasses?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Niantic, the firm behind the Pokémon Go phenomenon, and a spin-out from Google in 2010, has launched a new development kit for AR. Although executives of the firm have spoken negatively …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse

‘Meh’taverse Apologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday our CMS decided that it should publish an article on the ‘Meh’ taverse by a journalist I know just after we had run our daily email test and …

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