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Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

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Apple has acquired Akonia Holographics , a startup focused on holographic display and storage technology. The move is the latest development in a years-long string of acquisitions, patents, and hirings by the company focused on augmented and virtual reality technology. million in venture capital back in 2012, according to Crunchbase.

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

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They are all unabashed fans of science fiction, and yet they have to deal with the realities of where technology is. He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Osterhout is a developer, designer and entrepreneur.

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Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

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It didn’t succeed, but now it found a new use for the same technology. The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. The team started working on holographic data storage in the 1990s at Bell Labs, then spun out of Bell Labs in 2000 as InPhase Technologies.