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‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity & Pupil Swim

Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren’t being used to their fullest potential. By taking advantage of eye-tracking and smarter calibration, the […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

8. August 2023
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Hands-on: CREAL’s Light-field Display Brings a New Layer of Immersion to AR

More than four years after I first caught wind of their tech, CREAL’s light-field display continues to be one of the most interesting and promising solutions for bringing light-fields to immersive headsets. At AWE 2023 I got to check out the company’s latest tech and saw first hand what light-fields mean for immersion in AR […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

3. Juni 2023
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Samsung to Acquire AR/VR Microdisplay Company eMagin for $218M

eMagin, the US-based developer and manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, announced a merger agreement with Samsung Display, a subsidiary of the Korean tech giant. The company announced in a press statement that Samsung will acquire all outstanding shares of eMagin common stock on a fully diluted basis for $2.08 per share in cash, totaling […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

18. Mai 2023
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Smart Contact Lens Company Mojo Vision Raises $22M, Pivots to Micro-LED Displays for XR & More
Mojo Vision, a company once noted for its work on smart contact lenses, has raised $22.4 million in a new Series A investment round which it will use in a pivot to develop and commercialize micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise, and government applications. The funding round is led by existing investors NEA and Khosla […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

6. April 2023
Display Maker Demonstrates Flagship OLED VR Display & Pancake Optics, Its Best Yet

Road to VR & Ben Lang

6. Juli 2022
Meta Research Explores a New Solution to One of VR’s Biggest Display Challenges
New research from Kent State University and Meta Reality Labs has demonstrated large dynamic focus liquid crystal lenses which could be used to create varifocal VR headsets. Vergence-Accommodation Conflict in a Nutshell In the VR R&D space, one of the hot topics is finding a practical solution for the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC). All consumer […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

25. Mai 2022
New Video Shows Off CREAL’s Latest Foveated Light-field VR Headset
CREAL, a company building light-field display technology for AR and VR headsets, has revealed a new through-the-lens video showing off the performance of its latest VR headset prototype. The new video clearly demonstrates the ability to focus at arbitrary distances, as well as the high resolution of the foveated region. The company also the rendering […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

8. April 2021
CREAL Reveals Its First Light-field AR & VR Headset Prototypes

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

11. Januar 2021
Facebook Researchers Explore Mechanical Display Shifting to Reduce Screen Door Effect
Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs and the University of Arizona published new work exploring the use of high-speed mechanical display shifting to reduce the so-called screen-door-effect (SDE) of immersive displays. SDE is caused by unlit spaces between pixels leading to the immersion-reducing appearance of a ‘screen door’ between the viewer and the virtual world. The […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

8. Januar 2021
CREAL Raises $7.2 Million to Bring its Light-field Display to AR Glasses

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

2. Dezember 2020