Virtual Reality – Page 17

Scanning the Horizon at SXSWedu 2022

by Len Scrogan

The annual SXSWedu conference typically serves as the most innovative, fresh, and predictive venue for envisioning the future of the ed-tech marketplace. This year, the SXSWedu® Conference & Festival will be held in face-to-face …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?

by Bob Raikes

‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Corning Optimises Glass for Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning has a new glass formulation that has a refractive index of 2.0 and is intended to be used in waveguides for XR applications (up from 1.8 and 1.9 in previous …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Corning| Glass| Optics| Virtual Reality

SPREE Interactive and Eurogames Launch VR Space Bumper Cars into the Virtual World, Offering Location-Based Entertainment the Newest VR Solution in the Market

by Artem Alekseenko

SPREE Interactive, a specialist in multiplayer free-roam VR attractions for the location-based entertainment market, partners with Eurogames, world’s leading manufacturer in battery powered bumper cars, to present an economical and highly-entertaining solution which transports …

Tags:The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

AR Lags VR a Lot in Volume

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research put out an interesting chart that showed the split of market shipments of XR (AR and VR) by type. The chart doesn’t show anything that we haven’t already reported, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| Market Data| Virtual Reality

VR and AR are both on the rise, but their supply chains have key differences

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia published a blog article by analyst Calvin Hsieh that highlighted that the supply chains for VR and AR have ‘key differences’. He pointed out that the supply chain for VR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

The race to build AR glasses is heating up, and Samsung is surprisingly quiet

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An interesting article in C|Net looks at why Samsung is not really making much noise about AR glasses at the moment, despite being an early promoter of the technology with the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Samsung| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Watching the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I missed it at the time, but it’s still worth a look. Rob Koenen at TiledMedia wrote an interesting blog on the use of VR at the Tokyo Olympics. With the …

Tags:360 Degree Video| 3D (Three Dimensions)| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality

Apple’s New VR/AR Headset Risks Being Delayed Until 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that the planned XR headset being developed by Apple may be pushed back by ‘at least a few months’. It was expected to be unveiled at the annual Developer …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Varjo Brings World’s First Human-Eye Resolution VR/XR Cloud Streaming Capability to Its Reality Cloud Platform

by Artem Alekseenko

Varjo, the industry-leading provider of professional-grade VR/XR hardware and software, announced the addition of cloud streaming to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, marking progress toward the company’s vision of bringing real-life collaboration into the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Up Displays HUDs| Resolution| Virtual Reality

NPD Forecasts the US Tech Scene

by Bob Raikes

NPD held a virtual event around CES to look at a ‘big topic’ and from a high level – both in B2C and the B2B businesses. The session was introduced by Stephen Baker, a …

Apple AR/VR Headset Could be Power Hungry

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a research note seen by MacRumors, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the much rumoured forthcoming Apple AR/VR headset will use Apple’s biggest USB-C power adaptor which can provide up to …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Power Supplies| Virtual Reality