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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. You can overlay something like a green arrow for navigation or a Pikachu for a game.”. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”.

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WayRay Designing AR-Powered Ride-Share Car For Zoomers

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Using two seat-mounted joysticks, passengers can interact with a variety of interactive AR experiences, whether it be entertainment such as a multiplayer video game or information like traffic and GPS directions. Every feature and design theme is driven by AR holography, including the Shrimp”, added Ponomarev.

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‘HOLOSCOPE’ Headset Claims to Solve AR Display Hurdle with True Holography

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RealView claims to be using real holography to solve a major problem inherent to AR and VR headsets of today, the vergence-accommodation conflict. SEE ALSO HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about It. Digging a little deeper, there is a possible explanation.

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RED’s Hydrogen One Smartphone Is “The World’s First Holographic Media Machine”

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inch Hydrogen holographic display that can seamlessly switch between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content, and interactive games. We just added holography and stereo 3D for good measure.” The display is described as a 5.7

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New Waveguide Tech From VividQ and Dispelix Promises New Era in AR

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See Also: Introducing Holography as the Next Tech Milestone in Perfecting AR Glasses. And their material specifically mentions addressing these issues for consumer use cases like gaming. The physical device is designed to work with VividQ’s software, compatible with major game engines including Unity and Unreal Engine.

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

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Nadella described Mesh by inviting users to “think about what XBox Live did for gaming.” In case there are younger readers in the audience, XBox Live introduced customizable avatars along with many of the other elements that are currently taken for granted in online gaming today.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. His company is dedicated to building “real world” mobile gaming experiences that foster exploration, exercise and social interaction. Niantic has developed and released two games, Ingress and global phenomenon Pokémon Go.