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AR display-maker DigiLens lands $50 million from Samsung, Niantic

The broader AR mart is made up of a lot of hype and excitement, but fundamentally it’s all based around the promise that waveguide displays can continue to stay wafer-thin while getting acceptable and cheaper.

Waveguide-maker DigiLensis aiming to stay aggressive in lowering the costs of the exorbitant element. It has just closed a $50 million successions C led by Universal Display Corporation’s…

Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic

What is Niantic? If they recognize the name, most people would rightly tell you it’s a company that makes mobile games, like Pokémon GO, or Ingress, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

But no one at Niantic really seems to box it up as a mobile gaming company. Making these games is a large part of what the company does, yes, but the games are part of a bigger illustration: they are a springboard, a…

DigiLens Unveils New Augmented Reality Helmet for Bikers

Digilens needs to deliver the info out of your smartphone display into your line of sight whereas driving a motorcycle. DigiLens unveiled a brand new sensible helmet for motorbike and bicycle riders this week with an augmented actuality show that may place actual-time knowledge a few rider’s gear and route of their line of sight. Bicyclists will obtain knowledge about bike velocity and kit modifications, whereas motorcyclists will have the ability to entry knowledge about gasoline and oil ranges. Each forms of riders will moreover obtain details about their route by way of maps, accident stories, music and different apps developed for sensible helmets that show content material of their area of view in order that they don’t should look at their telephone and take their eyes off the street. The brand new MonoHUD AR waveguide show is thinner and lighter than DigiLens’ earlier lens and might be manufactured at a a lot quicker tempo as a result of it's constructed from solely two injec

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Augmented reality display maker DigiLens nabs $25 million

Though content creators in the augmented reality space are still struggling to find engaging use cases for early mobile augmented reality platforms, there is still a feverish amount of excitement inside the space from big tech companies and makers of key components that are plugging along in developing technologies that will enable consumer AR headsets.

One such startup, augmented reality display…