User meeting highlights potential of visual production inspection
The first Twyn user meeting hosted by Visometry in Darmstadt at the end of June focused on exchanges between users and experts.
Augmented Reality
Lightening the load of augmented reality glasses
New design achieves a wider incident angle range compared to the previous limit.
A new level of real-time 3D fluorescence information
Evolved ARveo 8 surgical microscope leads to clinical value creation for 3D brain-tumor visualization and enables freedom of movement with a surgical headset.
360-degree head-up display provides real time warning for drivers
New system see through objects to project holographic representations of road obstacles.
Ray-Ban and Meta launch next generation smart glasses
At the annual Meta Connect event Meta Platforms Inc and EssilorLuxottica introduced their upcoming smart glasses featuring Meta AI, advanced audio and camera capabilities, and design customization opportunities.
Mikrotron camera tests augmented reality headset to prevent falls
A new AR-assistive wearable headset designed to teach older adults how to improve balance.
Auggie Award for TriLite’s ultracompact AR display
The world’s smallest projection display Trixel 3 has been chosen as a winner at the AWE Auggie Awards, in the category ‘best interaction product’.
Schott and 3D-Micromac join forces regarding AR waveguides
Joint development partnership to focus on dedicated laser cutting process and mass production system for Schott RealView high refractive index glass.
App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone
The freely available app has three capture modes that cover a range of scenarios.
€7M to deliver truly realistic AR/VR
Investment will accelerate development of revolutionary holographic extended reality (HXR) technology to make virtual reality practically indistinguishable from the real world.
Infineon and PMD Technologies improve Magic Leap 2
One of the key features of the upcoming Magic Leap 2 AR system is the 3D indirect-time-of-flight depth sensing technology that was co-developed by Infineon and PMD Technologies.
Augmented / virtual / mixed reality systems optical terminology
In a two-part tutorial in PhotonicsViews 1 and 2/2022, Joya Team share their experience of more than two decades with the professional community.
A laser light engine for AR headsets
At Photonics West, Lionix International presented an integrated RGB laser light engine for retinal projection augmented reality (AR) headsets. The millimeter-scale light engine excels not only in the brightness and quality of the images projected but also in terms of compactness.
World’s smallest projection display
Last week Trilite has presented Trixel 3, the world’s smallest laser beam scanner at the SPIE Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco, California.
PhotonicsViews issue 1/2022 is out
Issue 1/2022 – February / March – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Cailabs, Coherent, Hamamatsu Photonics, Ingeneric, iPronics, Joya Team, Solmates, and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics.
“Revolutionizing augmented reality”
Infineon’s new MEMS scanner for eyeglasses and head-up displays.
