VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

These are the kinds of weightless experiences Stephen Greenwood, director of creative development at Discovery Digital Networks, and Allan Evans, cofounder of headset maker Avegant , are creating with their custom VR headset designed for underwater use.

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 3, 2016

The Avegant Glyph is a $699 personal home theater that straps onto your face, and it's a great product for privacy and gaming. It's a product that fills a niche that exists between a VR headset and a standard screen. The firmware update released today makes the hardware even better.

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The AR Show

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Edward Tang is the co-founder and CEO of Avegant, a company building next-generation display technologies for augmented reality experiences. Prior to Avegant, Ed spent nearly 15 years working in microfabrication and MEMs technologies, including 5 years focused on applying MEMs to brain-control interfaces.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

SEE ALSO Avegant Claims Newly Announced Display Tech is "a new method to create light fields". For all of the interesting potential of light-fields, one persistent hurdle has hampered their adoption: file sizes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 6, 2017

For more coverage on the development of Lightfield technology, watch the in-depth story of Avegant’s prototype Mixed Reality lightfield display. Learn more in Episode 39 – A window, not a poster – Lightfields with Ryan Damm from Visby. Understanding Lightfield Displays.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2017

It doesn’t burn me, because it’s a computer image displayed through a new kind of headset prototype built by Avegant, a Silicon Valley-based startup. Avegant calls it “light field.” A new kind of screen could help computer glasses replace the smartphone In my hand, mere inches away from my face, I’m holding a tiny elephant.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

and Avegant is pursuing a foveated display for AR. Using some of these insights, engineers have utilized foveated rendering in VR devices as an approach to reduce the amount of computation needed to render an image for display. The same insights can be extended to the display hardware. The demo is quite impressive.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 18, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto VR raises $13.9M, Avegant Raises $13.7, 3) Avegant, a Silicon Valley start-up that creates displays for holographic or “mixed reality” headsets, has raised $13.7M The company has also raised $4 million in a new round of funding led by Upfront Ventures. Read more on GeekWire.

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The AR Show

JULY 3, 2024

The panel featured Karl Guttag from KGOnTech, Adi Robertson from the Verve, Jeri Ellsworth from Tilt Five, and Ed Tang from Avegant. The panel featured Karl Guttag from KGOnTech, Adi Robertson from the Verve, Jeri Ellsworth from Tilt Five, and Ed Tang from Avegant. You can also find the show notes at thearshow.com.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 21, 2017

But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. The wild-looking headset we see used in the show looks as if a prop designer had some fun designing a kitbashed goggle-shaped VR headset with exposed circuit boards and 3D printed parts. Read more here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

But with Dispelix already producing a printed surface relief waveguide, and with Avegant more recently demonstrating a light-field display (using an even more vintage beam-splitter technique), Magic Leap may have lost much of its novelty. Holographic Waveguides.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The unique (and formerly Valve developed) retro-reflective-powered CastAR system gave us a glimpse at one of augmented reality’s possible futures; Avegant turned up with their bizarre yet technically impressive personal media player the Glyph ; PrioVR had their new entry-level motion tracking / VR input system to try.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Greenwood works in digital production for Discovery and Evans is the CTO and co-founder of Avegant Glyph. Stephen Greenwood and Allan Evans are the mad scientists who one day had the thought, “I think we could make a VR headset that works underwater,” and are now following through on that theory.

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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2022

See Also: Dispelix and Avegant Partner to Enable Next-Gen AR Glasses. “If The M-series is still very much its own product line but Shield and Blade are becoming increasingly similar products. The key differentiator is the Shield’s binocular display – and another $700.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2017

Facebook frenzy: new 360 app + live streaming in VR + voice search, our Avegant future looks like Star Trek, ZeniMax and Oculus: the plot thickens, VR companies grew 40% in 2016, investment & funding wrapup, and more… FACEBOOK FRENZY: NEW 360 APP + LIVE STREAMING + VOICE SEARCH. ZENIMAX AND OCULUS: THE PLOT THICKENS.

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