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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

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At Microsoft, Kress continued his work—principally focused on micro-optics, wafer scale optics, holography and nanophotonics—as partner optical architect on the HoloLens team, overseeing the release of both HoloLens and HoloLens 2. And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google.

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Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 1

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Our innovation on virtual experiences includes technologies that you’ve probably heard a bit about already, such as foveated rendering, varifocal optics, holography, and light fields. During the beautifully choreographed introduction to Marvel’s Deadpool (2016) , every object in the scene is rendered by a computer instead of filmed.

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