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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. Akonia hopes to get production going by 2018 or so. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”. The goal was to produce a storage product.

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Researchers Are Using Laser Beams To Create 3D Holograms

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Researchers at BYU have created a free-floating 3D hologram that uses lasers and a tiny particle floating in the air to create digital images which can be viewed without the need of a dedicated AR headset. BYU’s Holography Group uses a laser beam to trap a small particle in the air. Here’s how it works.

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RED’s Hydrogen One Smartphone Is “The World’s First Holographic Media Machine”

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Create a phone that can power holograms and doesn’t need a headset for AR or VR, that’s what, apparently. In an interview with Forbes Jannard said, “I never believed that AR and VR would be successful as long as you needed a pair of glasses or a headset to view content.

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A Demo and Fresh Look at Campfire

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While Wright left Vuforia in 2018, it remains PTC’s main enterprise augmented reality arm. A phone can be an AR viewer but also serves as a controller for the headset via an adapter called “the pack.” “We Right now, viewing Campfire in AR or VR requires the company’s custom headset.