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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

Road to VR

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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A Demo and Fresh Look at Campfire

ARPost

For the last few years, Campfire 3D has been expanding the world of “holographic collaboration” with a custom headset and base station as well as software that works in headset-based mixed reality and virtual reality, mobile-based augmented reality, and now on desktop 3D. Now, one app can do both jobs.

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Can VividQ Unlock Holographic AR?

ARVR

Based on deep academic pedigree and its go-to-market thesis, VividQ has planted its flag in the elusive art of holography for AR glasses and other touchpoints. Specifically, computer-generated holography (CGH) involves projecting images so they appear at the correct distance. everything from depth sensors to waveguides.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Our panelists included John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs and co-creator of Pokémon Go; Ralph Osterhout, CEO of Osterhout Design Group, maker of augmented reality glasses; and John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, maker of the Mezzanine collaboration software and science advisor for the film Minority Report.