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Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Road to VR

Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Depth mapping with a head mounted display using stereo cameras and structured light. Head mounted display including pancake lens block.

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Feel The Future With Interhaptics’ New Design & Development Tools

VRScout

After 7 months of beta testing, Interhaptics just released its most ambitious project to date: a mixed reality development suite for deploying haptics across platforms for both head-mounted displays and mobile devices.

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Blippar Expands Blippbuilder Support to AR Glasses Under New CEO

ARPost

To learn more about Blippbuilder on headsets, the company’s long-term strategy, and the effects of other Blippar developments, ARPost met the company’s new CEO, Preet Prasannan. While AR on a head-mounted display and AR on a handheld display might sound similar, there were some initial hurdles. “To

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New Safty Certified Smart Glasses Debut for Industrial and Frontline Workers

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The AR technology originally debuted the Vuzix Shield device via a limited fulfilment strategy focused on developers and researchers. Paul Travers added at the time, “Vuzix INCOGNITO technology makes the tech in a pair of AR smart glasses, or any other waveguide-based head-mounted display, virtually disappear.”

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New Safety Certified Smart Glasses Debut for Industrial and Frontline Workers

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The AR technology originally debuted the Vuzix Shield device via a limited fulfilment strategy focused on developers and researchers. Paul Travers added at the time, “Vuzix INCOGNITO technology makes the tech in a pair of AR smart glasses, or any other waveguide-based head-mounted display, virtually disappear.”

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Is 2020 Virtual Reality’s Breakout Year?

ARPost

The first computerized head-mounted display, created in 1968 by Ivan Sutherland, was so heavy that it needed to be suspended from the ceiling with a mechanical arm — a clear limit to commercial use cases and widespread adoption. The Beginning.

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Training employees is 4 times quicker with VR

Hypergrid Business

The PwC team was able to provision, deploy, and manage a large fleet of head-mounted displays with a very small team.”. As a next step from the virtual reality soft-skills training study, we are conducting a readiness review to inform a global learning and development strategy for virtual reality at the firm,” he said.

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