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ZEISS Becomes Sole Owner of AR/VR Company Tooz
OBERKOCHEN, Germany, March 13, 2023 — ZEISS has acquired the shares of the joint venture tooz technologies, which was founded together with Deutsche Telekom in 2018. The founding partners had held 50% of the shares in the startup, which develops high-tech optics in the area of augmented...
Bruker Acquires Inscopix; Adaptive Glasses Firm Deep Optics Secures Investment: Week in Brief: 11/11/22
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 11, 2022 — Bruker Corp. acquired Inscopix Inc., a developer of miniaturized microscopes known as miniscopes, for freely moving animal brain imaging. Since Inscopix’s founding in 2011, its flagship miniscope systems have been deployed in over 600 research...
Joint Research Lab for Smart Glasses to Launch With $50M Investment
MILAN, July 20, 2022 — Politenico di Milano and Milan-based lens technology and eyewear manufacturer EssilorLuxottica will establish a joint smart eyewear lab, aimed at designing smart glasses technology. The partnership provides initial investments of over €50...
Compact RGB Scanning Projector Developed for Wearable Displays and Smart Glasses
FUKUI, Japan, Dec. 14, 2020 — Researchers from the University of Fukui, in collaboration with SEIREN KST Corp., a Japanese silicon manufacturer, are preparing to commercialize an image projector for eyewear displays. The team succeeded in creating an optical engine by...
AR Rapid-Deployment Kits Aid Training, Response to COVID-19
JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 13, 2020 — To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing...
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Jan 23, 2020 — “Rise of the Machines,” the third “Terminator” sci-fi movie, features a future controlled by cold, calculating cyborgs that make their own decisions, including going back in time to exterminate the human resistance. While the...
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Full-Immersion AR: The Path to Consumer-Friendly Devices
Nov 21, 2019 — Augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) devices are perceived by some as the next big thing in consumer electronics. These devices could form the basis of the next great computing revolution, joining the ranks of smartphones and personal computers as a...
Smart Glasses Provide Customized Assistance Based on Worker and Task
BIELEFELD, Germany, Aug. 8, 2019 — An intelligent, assistive audiovisual system is being designed that will provide help to workers in manufacturing and logistics via a visual display with spoken instructions. The system comprises smart glasses with a specialized headset that...
AR VR Track at Light and Sound Interactive 2019 Looks to Future
ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 1, 2019 — At Light and Sound Interactive (LSI) — held June 25-27 in Rochester, N.Y. — the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) track made one thing clear: The technology may, at some point, become as ubiquitous as smartphones. A highlight of the...
Vuzix, Plessey to Partner for Smart Glasses Technology
PLYMOUTH, England, June 30, 2018 — Optronics solutions developer Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. is partnering with Vuzix to develop smart glasses technology. The two companies are partnering to develop the necessary technologies for a new generation of augmented reality (AR) smart...
Augmented Reality Takes Shape
Apr 19, 2018 — The world of virtual reality (VR) has made a splash in the consumer market in recent years with its fully occluded VR headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, that transport gamers to a virtual world. But an even bigger trend with more...
Zeiss, Deutsche Telekom Partner for Smart Glasses Development
JENA, Germany, March 9, 2017 — Optics developer Carl Zeiss AG has partnered with telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom AG for “smart glasses” technology, with an early prototype already in development. The pairing was announced at the Mobile World Congress in...
Liquid Lens Paired With Infrared Light and a Smartphone Creates Smart Glasses
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 26, 2017 — Liquid-based lenses that automatically focus on what a person is seeing could replace reading glasses and bifocals in the near future. The human eye has a lens inside that adjusts the focal depth depending on what is being viewed. But as people age,...
Dispelix to Commercialize Virtual Display for Smart Glasses
ESPOO, Finland, Nov. 10, 2015— Dispelix Oy plans to commercialize a display that brings visual information directly into the user's field of vision as an HD image on an eyeglass lens. The technology is based on light-guide optics, which enables the manufacture of displays on...
Laser Glasses Aim to Counteract Low Vision
KANAGAWA, Japan, March 12, 2015 — A new type of smart glasses that shine laser light directly onto the retinas could be a boon to people with poor eyesight. QD Laser Inc. is developing the device in collaboration with the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics at the...
Intel Invests $24.8M in Smart Glasses Firm Vuzix
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 9, 2015 — Intel Corp. has made a $24.8 million investment to accelerate Vuzix Corp.’s development of fashionable smart glasses. The tech giant purchased 49,626 shares of Series A preferred stock, representing approximately 30 percent of Vuzix’s...
Laser Combiner a Compact Solution for Wearable Displays
FUKUI, Japan, Oct. 23, 2014 — A laser beam combiner no larger than a grain of rice can enable laser-scanning displays in wearable computer systems. A team from the University of Fukui developed the new device. It could offer immediate, hands-free access to information via...
Forecast: Smart Glasses Optics Market to Reach $1.9B by 2019
GLEN ALLEN, Va., Sept. 30, 2014 — Smart glasses could generate $1.9 billion in revenues for the micro-optics market by 2019, the industry analyst firm NanoMarkets projects. Products like Google Glass could emerge as a mass market items with potential for replacing smartphones as the...
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