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Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

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The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”. Akonia is not unique in its attempt to use holography in this manner.

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WayRay Designing AR-Powered Ride-Share Car For Zoomers

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When in remote pilot mode, the steering wheel and controls retract into the dashboard in order to make room for additional passengers. Every feature and design theme is driven by AR holography, including the Shrimp”, added Ponomarev. Image Credit: WayRay.

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Panasonic’s AR HUD Could Be The Future Of Automotive Safety

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Revealed earlier this week during the all-digital showcase, this futuristic heads-up display uses a combination of AR visuals and AI technology from the companies SPYDR cockpit domain controller to deliver crucial information in real-time without distracting the driver.

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New Waveguide Tech From VividQ and Dispelix Promises New Era in AR

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See Also: Introducing Holography as the Next Tech Milestone in Perfecting AR Glasses. These devices, typically used for virtual screens or screen mirroring from a paired device, often include spatial controls like ray casting but are arguably not “true” augmented reality and are sometimes referred to as “viewers” rather than “AR glasses.”.

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Microsoft Research Reveals New, Slimmed Down AR Glasses

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.” The researchers methodology here is “built on the principles of Fresnel holography and double phase amplitude encoding with additional hardware, phase correction factors, and spatial light modulator encodings to achieve full color, high contrast and low noise holograms with high resolution and true per-pixel focal control.”

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality. But he still can’t make AR glasses with awesome visuals for just $500.

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Xbox Cofounder Seamus Blackley Takes R&D Post at AR Firm Daqri

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Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. Among them was using holography to do instantaneous 3D printing.”.