AR display
Hands-on: CREAL’s Light-field Display Brings a New Layer of Immersion to AR
More than four years after I first caught wind of their tech, CREAL's light-field display continues to be one of the most interesting and promising solutions for bringing light-fields to immersive headsets. At AWE 2023 I got to check...
Samsung Acquires eMagin Microdisplay Maker, Citing ‘significant potential growth’ of XR Devices
eMagin, the US-based developer and manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, announced a merger agreement with Samsung Display, a subsidiary of the Korean tech giant. Samsung says it anticipates "significant potential growth" of XR devices.
The company announced in...
Smart Contact Lens Company Mojo Vision Raises $22M, Pivots to Micro-LED Displays for XR & More
Mojo Vision, a company once noted for its work on smart contact lenses, has raised $22.4 million in a new Series A investment round which it will use in a pivot to develop and commercialize micro-LED display technology for...
Hands-on: Lumus Prototype AR Glasses Are Smaller & Better Than Ever
Lumus' latest waveguide, dubbed Maximus, is now even more compact thanks to 2D image expansion. With impressive image quality and a more compact optical engine, the company is poised to have a leading display solution for truly glasses-sized AR...
CREAL Reveals Its First Light-field AR & VR Headset Prototypes
Switzerland-based CREAL, which is developing a light-field display, has revealed its first prototype AR and VR headsets. The milestone marks ongoing progress in shrinking the once-bulky tech into something which can be worn on the head.
Compared to the displays...
CREAL Raises $7.2 Million to Bring its Light-field Display to AR Glasses
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it hopes to bring to VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. In November the company raised CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2 million) in a Series A+ investment round to bring on new...
Stanford & Samsung Develop Ultra-dense OLED Display Capable of 20,000 PPI
Researchers at Stanford and Samsung Electronics have developed a display capable of packing in greater than 10,000 pixels per inch (ppi), something that's slated to be used in VR/AR headsets and contact lenses of the future.
Over the years, research...
Facebook Signs Exclusivity Deal with AR Display Maker Plessey
Facebook is taking an important step towards releasing its first AR headset, as the company has signed an exclusivity agreement with UK-based AR display maker Plessey to supply the company with microLED displays.
"We have decided to work with Facebook...
Sony Reveals AR Headset Prototype in New Ghostbusters Location-based Attraction
Ginza Sony Park, the Japanese tech giant's Tokyo-based hub for Sony brand promotion, is now playing host to a new Ghostbusters-themed multiplayer experience using a newly revealed Sony AR headset prototype.
According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed...
Hands-on: LetinAR Brings a Larger FOV & Depth of Field to AR with ‘Pinhole Effect’ Optics
LetinAR, a Korea-based startup developing optical solutions for AR headsets and smartglasses, showed off a new implementation of their 'pin mirror' optical tech at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, bringing a sharp image quality, a large range of...
Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal
Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that's created an impressive light-field display that's unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market...
DigiLens is Developing a Waveguide Display for 150 Degree XR Headsets
DigiLens, a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, says it's working toward a waveguide display which could bring a 150 degree field of view to AR and VR (or XR) headsets. The company expects the display will be available...
Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, ‘especially ideal for standalone AR/VR’
Ahead of SID Display Week, researchers have published details on Google and LG's 18 Mpixel 4.3-in 1,443-ppi 120Hz OLED display made for wide field of view VR headsets, which was teased back in March.
The design, the researchers claim in the paper,...
Apple Manufacturer Quanta Signs Deal to Mass Produce Lumus AR Display Modules
Quanta, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest original design manufacturers, has signed an agreement to mass produce AR display modules from Lumus, a company specializing in AR displays based on 'waveguide' optical technology. Lumus says...
Lenovo Reveals AR Headset DaystAR
Lenovo today unveiled at the company's annual Tech World conference a new standalone AR headset dubbed 'daystAR'.
Revealed on stage by chief technology officer Yong Rui, daystAR is an augmented reality optical display with what the company says has an "independent vision...




















