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Avegant Raises $12M Financing to Further Develop AR Display Tech

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Avegant, the AR display company known for its Glyph head-mounted display , announced that the company has successfully closed a $12M Series AA financing, which will allow them to further develop their light field technologies and “high resolution, low latency, and high brightness” retinal displays. Image courtesy Avegant.

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The Crazy VR Goggles in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Are Not a Prop but a Real Prototype

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The character Keenan Feldspar is developing a virtual reality headset, and his carefree enthusiasm lures the Pied Piper crew to try out his latest demo. But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. Oculus and 360fly booths can also be spotted.

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Lytro is Positioning Its Light Field Tech as VR’s Master Capture Format

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SEE ALSO Avegant Claims Newly Announced Display Tech is "a new method to create light fields". Despite Lytro’s vision and growing toolset, and an ongoing effort to battle file sizes into submission, there’s still no publicly available demo of their technology that can be seen through your own headset.

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Charting a Path to Viable Consumer AR Glasses, Part IV

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and Avegant is pursuing a foveated display for AR. The demo is quite impressive. 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.

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The Crazy VR Goggles in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Are Not a Prop.

AllThingsVR

The character Keenan Feldspar is developing a virtual reality headset, and his carefree enthusiasm lures the Pied Piper crew to try out his latest demo. But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. Read more here.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Couple that with what we can safely assume was an impressive laboratory demo (in a controlled environment), and he was able to raise a staggering amount of money. MAKO then had a post-IPO acquisition by Stryker, the medical equipment giant (US $50B market cap), for a reported $1.65B. Holographic Waveguides.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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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.