Snapchat’s 4th-generation Spectacles Are Its First to Support AR
Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, today announced its 4th generation Spectacles glasses. While the prior generations included only cameras for capturing first-person footage, the 4th generation Spectacles are the company’s first to include a display for real-time AR. Also unlike previous versions of Spectacles, the 4th-generation is not currently available for sale. Snap is […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

21. Mai 2021
Exclusive Hands-on: DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization
Make no mistake, the Design v1 is unfortunately not for your everyday enthusiast hardware hacker. DigiLens is planning to work directly with a small handful of companies to iteratively customize the Design v1 for their specific needs. In fact DigiLens isn’t announcing an actual price for the glasses—it’s a ‘get in touch if you’re interested’ […]

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18. Mai 2021
Exclusive Hands-on: DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization
Make no mistake, the Design v1 is unfortunately not for your everyday enthusiast hardware hacker. DigiLens is planning to work directly with a small handful of companies to iteratively customize the Design v1 for their specific needs. In fact DigiLens isn’t announcing an actual price for the glasses—it’s a ‘get in touch if you’re interested’ […]

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Campfire Raises $8 Million for MR Headset System Aimed at Product Design & Collaboration
Campfire, a San Mateo, California based startup, emerged from stealth today announcing that it has raised $8 million in venture capital to launch an integrated hardware and software platform aimed at making remote product design and collaboration easy. The platform includes an MR headset (capable of both AR and VR), a tracking device, an accessory […]

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28. April 2021
Microsoft Signs $22B Contract with US Army to Bring HoloLens 2 Tech to the Battlefield
Following a prototyping phase started in 2019, Microsoft and the United States Army have announced they are moving to a production phase of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), based on HoloLens 2 technology, through a contract worth up to $22 billion. In 2019, Microsoft announced it was working with the US Army to prototype […]

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1. April 2021
Report: Snapchat Readying an AR Version of Its Spectacles Glasses
Hot on the tail of Niantic teasing a pair of AR glasses earlier this week, a new report from The Information says the company is readying a pair of its Spectacles glasses with proper AR functionality. Snapchat has been selling its Spectacles camera-glasses since 2016. Now on its third generation, the Spectacles glasses capture video from a […]

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31. März 2021
‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Teases a See-through Headset
Niantic, the studio behind the popular Pokémon GO, today teased some kind of see-through headset. Following a prototype demonstration of Pokémon GO running on HoloLens 2 earlier this month, Niantic CEO John Hanke today showed a teasing glimpse of a see-through headset the company is apparently working on. Exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

30. März 2021
Samsung’s Leaked AR Concept Videos Reveal Its Augmented Ambitions
Leaked concept video featuring two Samsung AR devices has come to light. Although just concepts and not functioning products as such, it’s clear the Korean tech giant is gearing up to compete with companies like Facebook and Apple as they inch ever closer to releasing consumer AR headsets. Known leaker ‘WalkingCat‘ released two videos showing […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

22. Februar 2021
Canon Showcases Its Next Enterprise AR/VR Headset ‘MREAL S1’ in New Video
Canon previously announced its next AR/VR headset MREAL S1 back in October. Now, the Japan-based company has shown off the enterprise-focused device in a new video. Update (January 27th, 2021): Canon Japan released the first promo video for their upcoming AR/VR headset, which uses a passthrough camera for room-scale augmented reality interactions. The headset is set to release […]

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27. Januar 2021
Rokid Reveals Vision 2 AR Headset with Waveguide Optics
AR startup Rokid today unveiled a new AR headset called Rokid Vision 2, which incorporates waveguide optics into an impressively slim package. To achieve its glasses-like form factor, Rokid Vision 2 doesn’t include onboard computing or power. For that, users can connect to smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, and tablets, the company says. Rokid, a Hangzhou, China-based startup, says […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

15. Januar 2021