Augmented Report

Spatial Computing in a Whole New Light.

AR needs Smart Glasses to make sense, just as much as Smart Glasses need AR to make sense. With them, your whole field of vision becomes a screen on demand.

While humans can see an average of 210°, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 display covers only 52° (up from 34°). Snap’s forthcoming glasses are only 26.3°. To take off, we likely need far wider coverage. And these are primarily hardware challenges, not software ones. What’s more, we need to make these advances while also improving the quality of other hardwa... See more

These features addressed the industrial design group’s worries about VR-induced alienation—they allowed other people in a room to interact and collaborate with a person wearing a headset in a way not possible with other VR gear. For years, the existence of such a display, internally code-named T429, was known only to a small circle of people even w... See more

Google wants to be your guide in the real world, and their flagship augmented reality device, Google Glass, is a pure distillation of the company’s goal to “organize the world’s information.” While Glass was famously a consumer failure, it still exists for enterprise use, and the high price tag will come down over time, making it more accessible. G

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Schaecher and Soldner are believers, and the two longtime tech execs see these lenses as a window into a wider world of material science experimentation and product development that they’re hoping to bring to market with Futuremood.

Foreseeable Futures AR Glasses Bridge Physical and Digital Worlds Augmented reality (AR) glasses may be the most foreseeable invention of all time. In the 90s and 2000s, people talked about the convergence device. Gates imagined it would be a smart television, but it turned out to be the iPhone. What’s the next convergence device? I think it’s AR g

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But the feature that ultimately sold the industrial designers on the project was a concept for an outward-facing screen on the headset. The screen could display video images of the eyes and facial expressions of the person wearing the headset to other people in the room.