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Microsoft Mesh is Revealed at Ignite

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft has announced its Mesh XR platform during its Ignite developer conference, based on its Azure platform. The app is designed as a shared platform for Microsoft’s AR HoloLens platform, Windows …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cloud Computing| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

3M & Pegatron Working on VR Headset with Folded Optics

by Bob Raikes

3M has often been the source of real innovations in the display field, so I was surprised to stumble upon a new technology for optics that seemed to have slipped by me when it …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Mixed Reality| ODMs & OEMs| Optics| Virtual Reality

VR and the Virtual: SXSW 2021 Online Preview, Part 2

by Len Scrogan

In today’s installment, I continue to offer a preview ‘sampling’ of some of the most intriguing VR, virtual production, and virtual event use cases slated as presentations for SXSW Online, along with some supporting …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality| Virtual Sets

VR Preview at SXSW 2021 Online, Part 1

by Len Scrogan

Are you interested in keeping up with the most innovative use cases for VR? One of the most predictive technology conferences today is the world-renown SXSW conference, a conference that specializes in the future. …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality

3M Teams with Pegatron to Advance Virtual Reality Headset Design and Efficiency

by Artem Alekseenko

3M and Pegatron have teamed up to develop a new Virtual Reality reference design headset with a folded optics lens. This new curved lens includes 3M’s proprietary reflective polarizer for high resolution, high transmission …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Virtual Reality

3M Teams with Pegatron to Advance Virtual Reality Headset Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 3M & Pegatron announced that they are working together to develop a new VR reference design based on 3M’s reflective polariser-based ‘folded optics’ lens. The lens is said to allow smaller …

Tags:3M (MMM)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Sony announces next-gen VR headset for the PS5

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has said that it is developing the next generation of its PlayStation VR systems which will use a single cable to connect to the host PS5 console. It will also …

Tags:Consoles| sony| Virtual Reality

Frost & Sullivan Forecasts $661.4 Billion AR and VR Technology Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I see a lot of forecasts for AR & VR and most of them I ignore. However, I saw one from Frost & Sullivan that forecast revenues of $661.4 billion of …

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

Oculus Quest 2 update will add 120Hz refresh rate, says Facebook insider

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechRadar reported that a VP of Facebook Reality Labs, Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, has suggested, by giving a ‘thumbs up’ to a question, that Facebook will upgrade its Quest 2 headset to …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Virtual Reality

Google has officially pulled the plug on Daydream VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has finally finished off the Daydream VR platform by shutting down its servers, including those on the VR Play Store, so there apps cannot be downloaded, although they may be …

Tags:Google| Virtual Reality

Tobii, Valve, and OpenBCI Engaging in Research Collaboration to Make VR Gaming More Immersive

by Artem Alekseenko

Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking, confirmed that it is engaging in research collaboration with Valve and OpenBCI by incorporating Tobii’s eye tracking technology with elements of Valve’s Index hardware to produce developer …

Tags:Collaboration| Tobii| Virtual Reality

Links Round-up Week Ending 19th Feb 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 first part of this week. Modder Adds Ray Tracing to Super Mario …