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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. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

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Founded in 2012, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics claims to have 200 patents focused on holography, specifically pertaining to storage and optics. ” The company previously raised $11.6 million in venture capital back in 2012, according to Crunchbase. ” The company previously raised $11.6

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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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