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

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At Microsoft, Kress continued his work—principally focused on micro-optics, wafer scale optics, holography and nanophotonics—as partner optical architect on the HoloLens team, overseeing the release of both HoloLens and HoloLens 2. And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google.

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Microsoft Research Reveals New, Slimmed Down AR Glasses

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” The researchers methodology here is “built on the principles of Fresnel holography and double phase amplitude encoding with additional hardware, phase correction factors, and spatial light modulator encodings to achieve full color, high contrast and low noise holograms with high resolution and true per-pixel focal control.”

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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. Waiting for the hardware to improve is a classic mass adoption trope, particularly in the consumer space. The light engine projects digital effects onto the waveguide, which the wearer looks through. Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good.

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

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We just added holography and stereo 3D for good measure.” No one wants to drag around another piece of gear that has to be charged every day. Hydrogen opens the door to AR and VR with the one product that you carry with you all the time.

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

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Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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A Demo and Fresh Look at Campfire

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The company is currently launching new hardware and a new product package, so we spoke with CEO and co-founder Jay Wright for a software demo and an explanation of the new release. A Cross-Platform Solution The complete Campfire ecosystem consists of hardware and software.