It’s been a long time, now I’m, coming back home(page) A little Beatles reference for you. Hello gentle readers. Its been a LONG time since I’ve written. I have been working at Samsung for 11+ years and finally the fully expected force reduction in the XR div happened. No regrets, I really enjoyed my time there working on XR related topics, but pretty much like… Read More
TikTok parent Co. ByteDance may buy Pico, why that is big news for AR/VR Well, seems the deal went through! Right now, its still a rumor, but let say the ByteDance Pico deal goes through. What does that mean for the AR / VR space? Currently the consumer VR space is pretty much dominated by Facebook with the Oculus Quest. A very good device, lots of content, very affordable… Read More
Snap Glasses are ok, but $500M for WaveOptics is really interesting Recently Snap dropped on us their new dev version of AR glasses. There was not much on specs, save 2000 nits (1000 per eye I guess) waveguide displays. Since its tethered I would guess its pretty much following most of the other AR glasses I have seen pop up based on the QC chip.However, what… Read More
Nreal AR Glasses day o: The good and the bad I just got the Nreal AR glasses dev kit. I’m going to skip unboxing and intro stuff since there are plenty of those on the web already. So this is a day 0 review, what I did as soon I got them. So lets jump right in. First off, the glasses do not fit me… Read More
XR and the Continuum of Immersion in eXtended Reality Back in 2016 I did a presentation on the Future of VR. On one slide was titled: VR, AR, MR… XR? Basically wondering how to describe yet another way to experience VR where Virtual World, is mapped to the real world, but its fully immerse, but one or two real things pop through. Ug. So… Read More