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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

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Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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Microsoft Research Reveals New, Slimmed Down AR Glasses

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The Microsoft Research Team revealed a new pair of augmented reality glasses today that offer an exciting form factor, even if their performance isn’t up to snuff. What’s described in the paper are “novel designs for virtual and augmented reality near-eye displays based on phase-only holographic projection.”

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Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

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The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”. Akonia is not unique in its attempt to use holography in this manner.

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Microsoft Ignite May Have Permanently Changed How We Think About Mixed Reality

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Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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Microsoft Ignite May Have Permanently Changed How We Think About Mixed Reality

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Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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Xbox Cofounder Seamus Blackley Takes R&D Post at AR Firm Daqri

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The initial work will focus not on AR. Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. Tagged with: daqri.

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A Demo and Fresh Look at Campfire

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Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. A phone can be an AR viewer but also serves as a controller for the headset via an adapter called “the pack.” “We