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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. For the kind of entertainment applications Magic Leap is pursuing, a light-field allows for a more realistic rendering of virtual content. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Holographic Waveguides.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

The unique (and formerly Valve developed) retro-reflective-powered CastAR system gave us a glimpse at one of augmented reality’s possible futures; Avegant turned up with their bizarre yet technically impressive personal media player the Glyph ; PrioVR had their new entry-level motion tracking / VR input system to try.