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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. He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012.

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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. But that company eventually went bankrupt, and Akonia was founded in August 2012 after acquiring millions of dollars in assets and the entire 200-patent portfolio from InPhase. The goal was to produce a storage product.