⊲ The Verge ⊳ The Halliday smart glasses, launched at CES 2025, integrate AI with a tiny display built into the frame. Designed for everyday use, these lightweight glasses deliver real-time notifications, navigation, and productivity tools via a...
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augmented reality
Holographic Smart Glasses Funding Boost
⊲ TNW ⊳ Belgian startup Swave is developing true holographic smart glasses, claiming a breakthrough in Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR). Their lightweight glasses, using nanoscale pixels and phase-change materials, promise 3D images visible from...
Is AR the Future of FPV Drone Control?
⊲ Hackaday ⊳ FPV drone flying with augmented reality (AR) combines both the drone camera's view with the ability to see physical surroundings, enhancing situational awareness, safety and interaction. This article reports on an inexpensive and easy...
Low-Power Eye Tracking for Smart Glasses
⊲ Electronicsforu.com ⊳ ETH Zurich have published a paper introducing ElectraSight, an ultra low-power hybrid eye-tracking system for smart glasses, combining capacitive sensing and electrooculography. This innovation promises accurate real-time...
Car Holographic Windscreens and Brainwave Monitoring
▶ Source - PR Newswire ▶ Global no. 6 automotive supplier Hyundai Mobis will unveil its full-windshield holographic display at CES 2025, a first-of-its-kind AR innovation offering panoramic driving visuals across the windshield. Co-developed with...
NASA Advances Human Augmentation and Wearables
▶ Source - NASA ▶ In this post, NASA describes its wearable technology innovations include fabric circuits for smart e-textiles, robotic exoskeletons aiding rehabilitation, and augmented reality-enabled devices such as an optical head-mounted...
Meta Accelerates the Future
▶ Source - Meta ▶ Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, highlights the company's advancements in AI-integrated glasses and mixed reality hardware. He notes that smart glasses have become an ideal platform for AI assistants, offering...
The Metaverse in 2025: Dead or Resting?
⊲ A Simulation News Article ⊳ Once heralded as the future of human interaction, the metaverse has faded from the spotlight, its bold promises overshadowed by newer technologies and shifting priorities. But is it truly gone, or has it simply...
Experiencing Flavours in Virtual Reality
▶ Source - VICE ▶ Researchers from City University of Hong Kong have developed a handheld device resembling a disposable vape that lets users taste flavours in virtual reality. Using iontophoresis, it transmits taste sensations via flavoured...
Revolutionising XR with Advanced Optics
▶ Source - University of Cambridge News ▶ AllFocal Optics, a start-up co-founded by Professor Daping Chu, Dr Pawan Shrestha, and Dr Xin Chang, has raised $5.3 million to commercialise nanophotonic lenses for always-in-focus XR visuals. Mimicking...
Whitepaper on XR in Manufacturing
▶ Source - VRARA ▶ This whitepaper from VRARA examines XR's role in manufacturing. It highlights benefits such as enhanced training, real-time support, reduced travel, and improved safety while tackling issues like reskilling and an aging...
Quest 3 + Apple Vision Pro Multiplayer
▶ Source - UploadVR ▶ Spatial computing application Figmin XR now enables the colocation of a Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro in the same room. This setup integrates Tilt Brush with Figmin's creation tools for building scenes and objects with physics...