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Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

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Founded in 2012, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics claims to have 200 patents focused on holography, specifically pertaining to storage and optics. SEE ALSO Apple's Latest VR Patent Describes a Compact VR Headset with Eye Tracking. ” The company previously raised $11.6

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Magic Leap 2 to Release on Sept 30th

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The CTO of Magic Leap, Julie Larson-Green , announced the release window during this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. It also incorporates external cameras to manage the device’s FoV, depth, RGB, and eye-tracking capabilities. A preview of the Magic Leap 2 product PHOTO: Magic Leap.

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

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Holographic waveguide optics have seen several recent entries into their ranks: TruLife Optics and WaveOptics, both of the UK, and most recently Akonia Holographics of Colorado. DigiLens refined this technique almost a decade ago creating avionic HUD systems for the U.S.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. And that gives us some very powerful tools.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He's currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University's Media X program at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. We can now do better objective assessments, instead of subjective measurements.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

He’s currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Media X program at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and the Director of Technology Strategy at the University of Colorado National Mental Health Institute Center. And that gives us some very powerful tools.