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VR Still Causing some Sickness

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a test in Australia, 36 participants played a VR game called Beat Saber, using an HMD for 10 minutes and 50 minutes. Although headsets have improved (and an HTC Vive …

Tags:Health and Safety| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

New Report: VR Revenue to Reach $12.2 Billion by 2024

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The VR/AR Association reported a forecast from ARtillery Intelligence that suggests that VR revenue will grow sharply in 2022 to 2024 after recovering in 2021 to pre-Covid levels. The key growth …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Measure What the Human Eye Sees: Optical Testing of AR/VR Headsets

by Artem Alekseenko

Perfect user experience for AR/VR headsets calls for extensive, fast and highly accurate optical tests during production. In order to meet this specific challenge, Instrument Systems has developed the LumiTop AR/VR 2D imaging colorimeter. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Testing| Virtual Reality

Canon will release its MREAL S1 AR/VR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Canon has released a new lightweight headset, the MReal S1, which is mainly said to be targetted at corporations in Japan. With a price of $38.400 (full system including system and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Canon| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

KGOnTech Video Presentations On Augmented Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Graphics and optics specialist, and occasional Display Daily contributor, Karl Guttag, has released a couple of presentations that he has created for two events in the last couple of months. He …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Kopin’s 2.6K x 2.6K OLED Display Incorporated in Panasonic’s New VR Glasses

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-performance microdisplays announced its Lightning® 2.6K x 2.6K (2560 x 2560 resolution) OLED (organic light emitting diode) display on chip (DoCTM) are incorporated in Panasonic’s VR …

Tags:3M (MMM)| CES 2021| Display Stream (DSC)| Kopin| Microdisplays| Mipi| OLEDs| Panasonic| Virtual Reality

Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple will have a two stage approach to the headset market, starting with a higher priced niche product that will act to help the company develop its platform …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Ganzin’s Eye Tracking Developed with Qualcomm

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ganzin Technology from Taiwan said at the virtual CES that it has developed eye-tracking technology in collaboration with Qualcomm. The software is available to run on the XR2 platform and will …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Gaze Recognition| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality