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Long-Anticipated Nreal Air AR Glasses Launch for US Users

ARPost

“AR glasses will likely first emerge into people’s lives as a display technology and then gradually grow into a holistic experience,” Nreal co-founder, Peng Jin, said in a release shared with ARPost. Further, the screen can be generated from a mobile device, computer, or most major game consoles.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

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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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, The whole point is to help the music industry — usually a laggard in exploiting digital technology — to create new revenue streams. A creator of casual iPhone and iPad games including “BoomTown!!” Read more here.

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Lytro is Positioning Its Light Field Tech as VR’s Master Capture Format

Road to VR

Lytro , a leading light-field company, is positioning its light-field capture and playback technology as the ideal format for immersive content. SEE ALSO Avegant Claims Newly Announced Display Tech is "a new method to create light fields".

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

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Waveguides are not a new technology, per se. Waveguide displays are made using the same technology that allows a unidirectional wave of light to be guided down a fiber optic cable. If a paying client requested a light-field, it can safely be assumed they would build it to order, with their existing waveguide layering technology.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. The OSVR HDK Headset.