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Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at...
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JDI Starts Mass Production on 1,058 ppi High Pixel Density LCD for VR Glasses
Japan Display Inc. (JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, today announced the mass production of a new high pixel density, 2.1-inch 1,058 LCD display created for VR...
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Facebook Says It Has Developed the ‘Thinnest VR display to date’ With...
Facebook published new research today which the company says shows the “thinnest VR display demonstrated to date,” in a proof-of-concept headset based on folded holographic optics. Facebook Reality...
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Facebook Reality Labs Shows Method for Expanding Field of View of Holographic...
Researchers from Facebook’s R&D department, Facebook Reality Labs, and the University of California, Berkeley have published new research which demonstrates a method for expanding the field-of-view...
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Stanford & Samsung Develop Ultra-dense OLED Display Capable of 20,000 PPI
Researchers at Stanford and Samsung Electronics have developed a display capable of packing in greater than 10,000 pixels per inch (ppi), something that’s slated to be used in VR/AR headsets and...
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CREAL Raises $7.2 Million to Bring its Light-field Display to AR Glasses
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it hopes to bring to VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. In November the company raised CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2 million) in a Series...
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Facebook Researchers Explore Mechanical Display Shifting to Reduce Screen...
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...
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CREAL Reveals Its First Light-field AR & VR Headset Prototypes
Switzerland-based CREAL, which is developing a light-field display, has revealed its first prototype AR and VR headsets. The milestone marks ongoing progress in shrinking the once-bulky tech into...
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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...
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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...
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Display Maker Demonstrates Flagship OLED VR Display & Pancake Optics, Its...
Display manufacturer Kopin recently demonstrated its latest VR display and pancake optic which promises higher resolution and more affordability for future VR headsets. Most modern VR headsets take on...
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Smart Contact Lens Company Mojo Vision Raises $22M, Pivots to Micro-LED...
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...
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Samsung Acquires eMagin Microdisplay Maker, Citing ‘significant potential...
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. Samsung says it...
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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...
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‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity &...
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...
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