Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2017

HBO’s show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California’s San Francisco Bay Area. But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. Avegant makes a cameo at Hooli-con | Photo courtesy HBO.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This can be said for Avegant CEO Edward Tang. Soon after that, Avegant was born. It’s first product, the 2016 Glyph , was a personal entertainment wearable that won CES’ best new product and remains a favorite of XR enthusiasts to this day. But then came a crossroads.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2017

Facebook frenzy: new 360 app + live streaming in VR + voice search, our Avegant future looks like Star Trek, ZeniMax and Oculus: the plot thickens, VR companies grew 40% in 2016, investment & funding wrapup, and more… FACEBOOK FRENZY: NEW 360 APP + LIVE STREAMING + VOICE SEARCH. ZENIMAX AND OCULUS: THE PLOT THICKENS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Some of the most basic waveguides were first commercialized by Lumus Optics (coming out of Israeli military-industrial research). For the kind of entertainment applications Magic Leap is pursuing, a light-field allows for a more realistic rendering of virtual content. Holographic Waveguides. DigiLens is a sleeping unicorn.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. Most industry observers ( including us ) had expected to usher in the first generation of consumer virtual reality in 2015.

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