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Kopin Receives $2M Development Contract for Defense In-Vehicle Display Imaging System

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading provider of high-resolution microdisplays and sub-systems for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for use in defense, enterprise and consumer applications, announced it was awarded a contract to develop …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Kopin| Military & Defence| Virtual Reality

IDTechEx Analyzes Meta’s VR Optics Future

by Artem Alekseenko

Virtual Reality (VR) hecadsets are edging toward becoming commonplace. However, social acceptability is still some way off and the user experience is not entirely comfortable. Essential to solving these problems are the lenses that …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| IdTechEx| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 27th 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!) …

New XR Experience in Canada “Uncontained” is Contained

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A firm called XR Immersive Tech Inc. has said that it will launch a new immersive XR experience in Canada at the Playland Amusement park in British Columbia and the PNE …

Tags:Canada| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Pico Neo 3 Reviewed – it’s Good but no Buy Recommendation

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR got its sticky fingers on a Pico Neo 3 headset and reviewed it. It points out that from a display point of view, the headset is the same as the …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

HTC is releasing a new professional version of its ultra-small Flow VR headset.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HTC has a new ‘Business Edition’ of its Vive Flow headset (Vive Flow Headset uses Dual LCDs) which was launched last year. The headset has new software including a ‘kiosk mode’ …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

We Found the Source for the Meta Info

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday I reported on Meta’s developments in XR displays but I missed the source of that content which is a one hour video from ‘Adam Savage’s Tested’ that includes …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| Mixed Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Meta shows its AR/VR work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just …

Tencent Holdings has Formed an XR Unit

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings (China’s most valuable tech company) has formed a business unit to address the opportunity for XR and the metaverse in software and hardware. It was formed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Mixed Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Pico Going to US for Content and Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment reports that the ByteDance (TikTok) owned company, Pico is setting up a team on the West Coast of the USA to develop content licensing and to start marketing its …

Tags:USA| Virtual Reality

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