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All Nippon Airways Working on Virtual Vacation Technology

by Andrew Fenn

Virtual vacation technology is being developed by Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) Holdings, using virtual reality, robotics and haptic feedback technology to recreate the feel and physical sensations of being on holiday and taking …

Microsoft Shows Off Haptic Controller Research

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article on the Microsoft Research Blog, Microsoft described an array of haptic controllers that can be used to enhance the experience in a virtual reality environment. In the current state, these …

Tags:Haptics| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Google to Present on HR OLEDs at SID

by Bob Raikes

Last year at SID, Google’s Clay Bavor gave a keynote in which he said that Google was working on systems with 20 megapixels per eye and drew gasps from the assembled engineers. At this …

Motorola VR Smartphone Headset Leaks Online

by Andrew Fenn

Motorola is adding a VR headset to its Moto Mods range of smartphone accessories. Images of the headset appeared on Twitter recently. Hardware specifications are currently unavailable and other details, like a release date …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Uber Patents VR Experience for Self-Driving Car Passengers

by Andrew Fenn

Patents filed by Uber back in 2016 were unveiled by the United States Patent and Trademark Office last month, and show that the company is developing virtual reality experiences for use within its autonomous …

Tags:AR/VR| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Barneys New York Kicks Off Spring Campaign with VR Experience

by Andrew Fenn

Barneys New York has announced its spring campaign, Mantle, a virtual reality experience created in partnership with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Samsung Electronics. Filmed using 360° camera technology, the short film blends …

VRgineers and Leap Motion Partner on Next-Generation VR Headsets

by Andrew Fenn

VRgineers and Leap Motion have announced a newly-formed partnership that combines imaging in VR with natural hand-tracking interaction. According to Marek Polčák, CEO and co-founder of VRgineers: “Embedding Leap Motion’s next-generation hand-tracking technology directly …

Tags:AR/VR| Leap Motion| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …

MWC 2018 Roundup Part 1

by Bob Raikes

Abenecel was at the 4YFN event and is based in Korea. The company is a technology licensing company that has a patented compression pre-processing system that can be used for graphics files and can …

New StarVR Headset to Feature Tobii Eye-Tracking?

by Andrew Fenn

StarVR’s vice chairman Jerry Kao has reportedly revealed that the company is planning to release a new VR headset with Tobii eye-tracking capabilities, according to Digitimes. The device will apparently target high-end enterprise applications. …

Tags:Acer| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

VRstudios and Multi-Player 6DOF VR Games

by Matthew Brennesholtz

VRstudios provides six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) virtual reality (VR) systems for out-of-home entertainment centers such as theme parks. 6DOF VR systems allow the person wearing the VR head mounted display (HMD) to not only look …

VESA Positive on DisplayPort Developments

by Bob Raikes

We met with VESA only a couple of months ago at CES, so there was not a huge amount of news, but there were plenty of discussions! The new version of DisplayStream Compression is …