If AR glasses are ever to become common accessories for daily life and work, they are going to have to be lightweight, comfortable, and indistinguishable from prescription or sunglasses. For those glasses to be really useful, they’re going to have to be powerful—able to deliver a blended view of digital information with the real world. LetinAR, a Korean company, says … Read more
ONVIF Security cameras can be used with Vuzix Blade glasses to enable security personnel be on the move and monitor several cameras at once. (Source: Vuzix) Vuzix is a smart glasses company with unusual longevity in the perilous field of AR/VR glasses makers. In AR, vendors struggle to balance the market's demand for low profile, lightweight glasses at equally … Read more
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We are taking the arbitrary position of declaring any VR HMD with greater than 2.4mp per eye as being high-resolution VR. At the recent AWE conference, two companies stood out for their very high-resolution display capability: Varjo and VRgineers with 2560 × 1440 resolution per eye (3.7mp). Stockholm-based StarBreeze was the first to ship a hi-res VR HMD with their … Read more
When I first encountered Varjo’s human eye resolution VR HMD in 2017, it was impressive but rough around the edges. The company, based in Helsinki, has since grown from 12 to 112 people and has raised $51 million. Their headset is targeted to design and simulation customers. Varjo has taken the blank outside face plate and put a reflective surface on … Read more
In 2011, a scant seven years ago, Florida-based Magic Leap wow’ed the world and investors with fake videos of its planned augmented reality (AR) headset. The videos were so good, investors fell over themselves trying to stuff money into Magic Leap’s bank account, and they succeeded to the tune of something north of $2.3 billion US-dollars—making it the richest startup … Read more
Ask Oculus, they’ve invented one Oculus has announced what they call groundbreaking technology, Focal Surface Display. The new technology is designed to improve the vergence-accommodation conflict that impacts today’s VR headsets. Oculus has built a first binocular multifocal testbed with integrated eye tracking and accommodation measurement, which will make wearing headsets more comfortable for longer viewing. To back up a … Read more
