Vuzix said its Vuzix BladeSmart Glasses have been selected by X.Labs, developer of SWORD weapon detection system, as the optional smart glasses companion for Feevr. Feevr is a quick and effective artificial intelligence (AI) based system for screening and detecting individuals in a crowd that have an elevated temperature. Vuzix received the order, with an initial payment upfront, from X.Labs … Read more
Augmented reality can be found in five and, maybe one day, six highly different platforms and configurations. Vehicle head-up displays (HUD) are one of them. HUDs are used in airplanes, boats, trucks, and cars. HUDs are offered as optional or standard built-in equipment in new cars and trucks and as a retrofit device for older or less expensive cars and … Read more
Multi-player VR Park in the Philippines. (Source: Nvidia) Purdue University researchers have created a new approach to VR that will allow multiple players to interact with the same VR app on smartphones and provide new opportunities for education, health care, and entertainment. Researchers at Purdue University have created what they say is a new approach to VR that allows … Read more
Building a VR HMD, which Qualcomm and others like to call XR, involves having a screen either in front of or piped to the wearer’s eyes. The size of the image and its PPI determine the FoV, and wider is better but more expensive in materials cost and processing (and all the things needed for the processing like memory, power, … Read more
AR has been a topic of interest, charm, and intrigue since Ivan Sutherland put stereoscopic floating wire-frame cubes in front of Bob Sproull’s eyes in 1968. Since then dozens, maybe even hundreds, of designs have been tried while the concept of AR expanded from a head-mounted display to head-up displays in fighter aircraft and high-end automobiles to smartphones and helmets. … Read more
Claiming to be the first 6DoF standalone passthrough video AR headset, the three-year-old, 10-person, Paris-based startup Lynx has introduced their Lynx-R1 that is scheduled to ship this summer. Introduced at the 2020 SPIE conference in San Francisco on February 3rd, the HMD uses an occluded display as a VR headset does with pass-through video for AR, making it a mixed … Read more
zSpace was founded in 2001 and immediately caused a stir as one of the first companies to deliver XR in supremely practical applications relying on 3D visualization. zSpace now offers three models: a laptop, and two AIOs (all-in-ones), all of which come with 3D glasses and a stylus. The secret of zSpace’s technology is the tracking built into the display. … 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
The PC business is pretty standardized these days. People know they want a computer, a display, a mouse, a tablet. Many of those people know they’d rather have a major brand for the reassurance of support and security. So, the struggle for the PC companies is to figure out some way to stand out and thrive selling similar stuff to … Read more
There are people who are wandering the halls at CES so we don’t have to. Among them are the people from VRScout who posted an early heads up on Panasonic’s new VR glasses. The pitch from Panasonic is that these are the first glasses that eliminate the screen-door effect. They’re not. Varjo’s glasses don’t have a hint of screen door, … Read more
I have reported several times on Finnish XR start-up Varjo since I first recognized the potential of their concept of “foveated resolution.” I reported most recently a few weeks ago from AWE Europe in Munich. (Varjo Pushes The Envelope on VR Performance). So, I wasn't sure whether to accept their invitation to a brief meeting in London as they started … Read more
Epic Games announced e.d. films as their first MegaGrant award winner for an animation company. The company says they’ll use the money to continue production on three projects which include two shorts and a VR experience coming in 2020. The company has an innovative style that combines 2D and 3D and they’re using Epic’s realtime tools to efficiently produce their work. … Read more
