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CREAL Reveals Its First Light-field AR & VR Headset Prototypes

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Switzerland-based CREAL, which is developing a light-field display, has revealed its first prototype AR and VR headsets. Compared to the displays used in VR and AR headsets today, light-field displays generate an image that accurately represents how we see light from the real world. CREAL AR Light-field Prototype.

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CREAL Raises $7.2 Million to Bring its Light-field Display to AR Glasses

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Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it hopes to bring to VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. Over the last few years we’ve seen Creal make progress in shrinking its novel light-field display with the hopes of fitting it into AR glasses. In November the company raised CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

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Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This means that professionals from these countries will be finally able to buy the best AR headset on the market in an easy way without using foreign stores. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets

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Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. Co-founded by former CERN engineers, CREAL is building a display that’s unlike anything in AR or VR headsets on the market today. Why Light-fields Are a Big Deal. Photo by Road to VR.

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Report: Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Zurich Eye

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Oculus is going on a recruitment drive, with over 100 positions available , mainly in its US offices. Late last week German site Handeszeitung reported that Oculus parent company Facebook had acquired Zurich Eye, a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

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That said, let’s see what have been the most interesting pieces of AR and VR news of the week…. Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance.

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Mindmaze Collaborates With Dacuda For Room Scale VR Initiative

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Mindmaze, a spin off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has taken a proficiency in VR and neuroscience that makes them one of the top startups in Switzerland and charged forward into consumer healthcare applications. Dr. Tej Tadi, founder at Mindmaze, recognizes the opportunity in front of them. “To