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Tour China from Times Square

by Bob Raikes

The “Experience Day of Beautiful China” global tour event, hosted by the China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC), officially opened at the Thomson Reuters building in New York’s Times Square last week. The experience used …

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3D VR Used for Home Sales

by Bob Raikes

A real estate agency in Boulder Colorado, US, 8z Real Estate has started to use 2D & 3D cameras to create 3D scans of rooms. The 3D scans are combined to create 3D, dollhouse, …

Hoya Uses HMD for Lens simulation

by Bob Raikes

Japanese optics maker, Hoya, is using VR technology to allow users to get a sense of the optical effects of various lens designs and treatments. The Hoya headset is controlled by an application downloaded …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Jaunt VR Raises Capital in Series C

by Tom Allen

Sky and Disney have increased their investment in Jaunt VR, a cinematic virtual reality firm in the USA. Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has also joined as an investor. The new Series C funding, which was led …

A 3D Virtual Reality Event in a Building on Times Square Allowed New Yorkers to Experience the Wonders of China without Setting Foot Outside of Manhattan

by Tom Allen

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Embraer Embraces Mixed Reality for Aircraft Design

by Chris Chinnock

In a seminar at the Canon EXPO, Embraer’s Paulo Pires described the mixed reality market and its use in aircraft design and simulation. They have been using Canon mixed reality systems and are seeing …

IDC Sees Big Growth for Mixed and Virtual Reality

by Chris Chinnock

IDC’s Ramon Llamas kicked off a special seminar session by defining mixed reality as the combination of augmented reality (virtual objects overlaid on a view of the real world), augmented virtuality (interaction with an …

Sony Renames VR Headset

by Tom Allen

Less than a week after showing the headset at IFA 2015, Sony has renamed its Project Morpheus VR device. At a press conference ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced that the product …

Gaming and Film Drive VR Shipments to 30 Million

by Tom Allen

In a new whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/nhox467), Juniper Research has predicted that 30 million virtual reality headsets will be shipped by 2020. Film and gaming applications will drive adoption; while adult video is a potentially large …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Worldwide

Virtual Reality Headset Shipments to Approach 30 Million by 2020, Driven by Video & Gaming Use Cases

by Tom Allen

New findings from leading hi-tech analysts, Juniper Research, reveal that wearable VR HMD (Head Mounted Display) headset shipments will approach 30 million globally by 2020, compared to just over 3 million in 2016. Juniper …

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Apple Rumors about Cars and AR Headsets – Real Enough?

by Norbert Hildebrand

The day after reporting on the Apple event that showed the company releasing the next iPhone, the new iPad Pro, a new Apple TV and a new OS for the Apple Watch, one has …

3IT4 3D and VR Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on VR and the first responder was Angus Cameron who is CEO of Vision3, a developer of 3D movies. There is a lot of buzz about VR systems and there …