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HP Announces Professional Edition of its Windows MR Headset

by Andrew Fenn

HP has showcased the Professional Edition of its Windows Mixed Reality Headset. This headset features 1440 x 1440 resolution per eye and up to a 90Hz refresh rate, six degrees of freedom, no tracking …

Tags:AR/VR| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Ex-Mozilla WebVR Team Launches VR Web Browser

by Andrew Fenn

Supermedium, the team behind Mozilla’s WebVR standards and the A-Frame open-source VR framework has released a VR web browser. The company has also announced that it’s been chosen to be a part of Y …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 05

New Lens Enables Display Testing from Same Position as the Human Eye

by Andrew Fenn

Radiant Vision Systems has introduced a new lens for measuring light, colour and image accuracy of near-eye displays within AR and VR headsets. The lens replicates the size and position of the human eye, …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Grand View Research: Gaming to be Worth $171.96 Billion by 2025

by Andrew Fenn

The global gaming market is anticipated to reach $171.96 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, registering a 6.5% CAGR during the forecast period. Technological advancements in gaming hardware …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Limitless Team Joins Up with Lytro

by Andrew Fenn

VR company, Limitless, has announced that its team will join image capture start-up, Lytro. Lytro specialises in light-field image capture. The two teams will collaborate on a solution for combining light-field and real-time rendering …

Tags:AR/VR| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

FETC 2018 Roundup

by Len Scrogan

The US ed tech conference season kicks off at the start of the year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (this year, FETC 2018), held each year in Orlando, Florida. …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Leap Motion Shows Three New Interactive VR Prototypes

by Andrew Fenn

VR company Leap Motion has released a detailed blog post, demonstrating three new ways of interacting with objects in a virtual reality environment, using information from the worn head-mounted display and an approximation of …

Tags:AR/VR| Gesture Recognition| Leap Motion| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Pimax Announces Its “8K” VR Headset is Delayed Until 2018 Q2

by Andrew Fenn

Following the company’s appearance at CES 2018, Pimax has announced that its backers won’t see their finished headsets until the second quarter of 2018, delaying the initially expected delivery date by several months. Pimax …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

CES Busy and Bigger than Ever!

by Bob Raikes

CES was a big show with more space than ever before at 2.75 million sq. ft. (255,500 m2) and the total attendance was expected to be over 170,000. The event seemed very busy this …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Automotive| CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PCs| Virtual Reality| Voice Input

HTC Vive Pro Matches Visuals of Samsung Odyssey

by Bob Raikes

HTC launched its new Vive Pro in a dedicated meeting room in the Wynn. The company has upgrade the headset from the original design and from our point of view, the main change is …

Tags:CES 2018| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Simulation| Training| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

VR AR Conference at CES 2018

by Steve Sechrist

One of the “transformational technologies” at CES 2018 (sometimes called the darling of the industry du jour) was VR / AR technology. Both technologies came to CES complete with a conference track, a dedicated …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2018| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

DisplayLink Upbeat and with a Big Booth

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink is enjoying life at the moment. The company has progressed well with some key breakthroughs that we have reported before for its display over USB compression technology. The company has seen the inclusion …

Tags:CES 2018| Desktop Monitors| DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Video Walls| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02