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Links Week Ending 14th January 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 second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …

XR (VR/AR) Headset Shipments to Grow 10 Times to Cross 100 Million Units by 2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published its forecast for XR (VR/AR) shipments and the firm expects a big boost in sales in the second half of 2022 with Sony, Apple and new products from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

FETC 2022 Preview: What’s Whispering

by Len Scrogan

In this final article of the series, I outline some soft whispers emerging from FETC 2022, the Future of Education Technology Conference, which rotates it venue from Orlando to Miami, Florida. This year’s conference …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

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

The Xtal 3 Uses Dual 4K Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have reported on Vrgineers and their high quality VR headsets and Chris tried the previous QuadHD version at CES in 2019. (VR I Didn’t See at CES) At CES this …

Tags:Aviation| UltraHD & 4K| Virtual Reality

Shiftall Introduces MaganeX, World’s First 5.2K High-Dynamic-Range Virtual-Reality Glasses at CES 2022 Incorporating Kopin’s 2.6K x 2.6K OLED Displays and All-Plastic Pancake Optics

by Artem Alekseenko

Shiftall Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, will reveal MaganeX, its stylish, lightweight, high-dynamic-range, virtual-reality glasses at CES 2022 this week incorporating Lightning® 2.6K x 2.6K micro OLED displays on chip (DoC®) …

Kopin & Panasonic Subsidiary show VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We have been reporting on Kopin’s microOLEDs and its developments of all plastic ‘pancake optics’. At CES 2022, Shiftall, a fully owned subsidiary of Panasonic, showed a headset based on the …

Sony Releases PS VR2 Specifications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a blog post, Sony announced some details of its next (PlayStation VR2) VR headset in a blog post. The firm said that as well as the specification detailed below, the …

The HalfDive VR Headset is Optimized for Use in Bed – But Goes to Sleep

by Arthur Berman

Founded just recently, in March, 2021, Diver-X, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) is in the process of launching a rather unusual headset. Called the HalfDive, the product is designed for use while the user is lying …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

Mike Nesmith – A Technology Pioneer as Well

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Digital Cinema Society spotted an article by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees who died just before Christmas that was published in ‘Videography’ in 1990. The article is an intriguing forecast …

Tags:Forecasts| Virtual Reality

Toppan and 3dig Launch Collaboration Using High-Resolution Biometric Data for High-Definition Virtual Humans

by Artem Alekseenko

Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, and 3dig, inc. (3dig) are launching a collaboration focused on high-definition virtual humans created using high-resolution real scanning data. The project …

Tags:biometrics| Collaboration| Virtual Reality

Nio AR Glasses Designed for Automotive Use

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nio, a Chinese electric car start-up is developing custom AR glasses, made by Nreal for use in its vehicles. The company also said that it has developed VR glasses with Nolo, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| OLEDs| Virtual Reality