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As AR glasses edge closer to mainstream adoption, it's crucial to understand the technologies driving this shift. What components and subsystems are essential for creating AR glasses that captivate consumers? Our CTO, Jörg Reitterer, named one of the industry’s most innovative people by Electro Optics, highlights the fundamental requirements for consumer-ready ‘always on’ AR glasses. These glasses must be lightweight, comfortable for all-day wear, and discreet enough to be socially acceptable. It's essential that they maintain a design that allows for eye contact, underscoring the importance of aesthetics. Discover more in Jörg’s article: https://lnkd.in/dZ4RgupP   AR guru Bernard Kress (Google AR director, and President of SPIE) identifies four criteria as key to mass adoption of AR glasses: wearable comfort, visual comfort, social comfort, and mass production.   Achieving these involves ensuring superior power efficiency, low latency, and high-quality, bright displays, all while minimizing weight. Furthermore, these glasses need to be economically viable for mass production.   It’s only now that suitable display systems (such as our Trixel® 3 laser beam scanning (LBS) projector) are becoming available, and look set to transform the AR smart glasses market. If you are curious to explore our laser beam scanning display solution and meet our team of experts, you can find us at Display Week, booth #645 or schedule a meeting at [email protected]. #AR #AugmentedReality #smartglasses #LBS #laserbeamscanning #display

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝘆𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗲𝗿... 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀? ... 𝗢𝗿 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼? 😎 I think the answer might be yes.... if 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 need is more focussed on being fashionable than having a top end tech device. Diving into the world of smart wearables, and in this case smart glasses, is only to get more confusing to the average consumer as the "smart glasses" market begins it's dirty snowball marketing and information overload campaigning. I'm not calling out OEM's that build the tech are bad, no, I'm calling out the inevitable confusion in another tech category. To make this relatable, just think about buying a new TV and for the average person trying to work out what all the tech stats mean!?! ... that's what I'm calling out. Luckily for me, XR (Extended Reality) is my living and smart glasses / wearables / XR headsets are my happy place.  I have my Meta Ray Bans on order which I’ll do a proper review in the coming weeks. So, what do I think of Lucyd?  … well, if you’re after a new set of frames for your normal lenses and you like the look of these …. and you wish to have an easy to use ChatGPT integration into your glasses’ frames via a microphone / speaker, that is Bluetooth tethered to an app on your phone? …then, yeah why not!?  You’ll be the smartest looking person amongst your peers as you rattle off Pi, as easy as, well … eating Pie.  Technically you can do the same thing by wearing just a pair of Bluetooth ear buds …. 𝗯𝘂𝘁.... this is about being fashionable and ease of use. That seems to be Lucyd's target market.  And in my books, that’s ok. 👍 Please note – I haven’t tested these so don’t bag me on quality or ease of setup etc.  Happy to evaluate @Lucyd … #XR #VR #Collagis #SmartGlasses #Lucyd https://lucyd.co/

𝐒𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐀𝐑 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡, 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬, 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟑 Augmented Reality (AR) glasses have emerged as a revolutionary technology, blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds. These sleek wearable devices overlay digital information onto the user's real-world environment, enhancing their perception and interaction with the surroundings. From gaming and entertainment to enterprise applications like remote assistance and training, AR glasses offer a plethora of possibilities across various industries. ✅ 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gAbYtQtT 📊 Market Challenges: ➡ Cost: One of the primary hurdles is the high cost associated with AR glasses. The advanced hardware, including high-resolution displays, sensors, and processing units, contributes to the hefty price tags, limiting their accessibility to mainstream consumers and businesses. ➡ Form Factor and Design: Many AR glasses currently on the market suffer from bulky designs and limited aesthetics, which can deter users from incorporating them into their daily lives. Improving the form factor and design to make them more lightweight, comfortable, and fashionable remains a significant challenge. ➡ Battery Life: AR glasses require considerable power to drive their displays and processing capabilities, leading to short battery lives. Extending battery life without compromising performance is crucial for enhancing user experience and practicality. ➡ Content and Applications: The success of AR glasses hinges on the availability of compelling content and applications that leverage their capabilities. Developers face challenges in creating immersive and useful AR experiences that resonate with users across different sectors. Market Segmentations: #Company • TCL • lasers qd • EM3 • OPPO • nReal • vivo • Tilt Five • Wuhan XIAOLONG Automobile Technology Co., ltd. • Huawei • Microsoft • Lawaken Technology • Beijing LLVISION Technology Co., Ltd. • INMO • ROKID MEDIA #Type • Monocular AR Glasses • Binocular AR Glasses #Application • Industry • Security • Travel • Logistics • Others 📌 Stringent Datalytics - Retails and Consumer #AR #AugmentedReality #SmartGlasses #WearableTech #TechTrends #MarketResearch #Innovation #ConsumerTech #FutureTech #DigitalTransformation

Dyson’s new AR feature shows where you have (and haven’t) vacuumed If this had been announced precisely a week prior, it would person been casual to mistake for immoderate firm April Foolery. Dyson, however, assures america that augmented world vacuuming is existent and coming successful June — somewhat belated for outpouring cleaning, sadly. When it launches implicit the summer, CleanTrace volition beryllium disposable for the Dyson Gen5detect system. The property photos bely the exertion a bit, arsenic it volition beryllium geared astatine phones, alternatively than, say, an Apple Vision Pro oregon Meta Quest headset. While it seems similar that benignant of heads-up AR would beryllium possible, 1 yet questions however galore radical are going to privation to vacuum with a machine connected their heads. The strategy is simply a spot silly and wildly unnecessary, but that’s benignant of the amusive of it, no? It’s not going to extremity implicit anyone who’s connected the obstruction astir a $700 ultra-premium vacuum, but this is hardly the astir ridiculous thing Dyson has shown the world. The institution says the diagnostic was influenced by its ain robot vacuum mapping. “We realized that we could each larn a happening oregon 2 from the methodical cleaning attack of our robot vacuums,” Dyson VP of engineering Charlie Park notes. “Unlike astir humans doing the cleaning, Dyson robots cognize wherever they are successful the room, wherever they person been, and wherever they person yet to go.” In the demos, the strategy creates a purple (Dyson’s color) overlay, showing the way the vacuum has taken up to that point. The nonsubjective is to crook the full country that color, to guarantee that you’ve deed each the spots, alternatively than simply relying connected your technologically retired of day eyeballs. As idiosyncratic who vacuums astir each greeting I thin to judge Dyson erstwhile it notes, “Our probe shows that consumers regularly overestimate the magnitude of clip they cleanable – information shows that astir 80% of cleaning sessions past little than 10 minutes, yet radical assertion they vacuum for an mean of 24 minutes per session.” What that connection yet comes down to is that astir radical hatred vacuuming, due to the fact that astir radical hatred housework. As such, we thin to dramatically overestimate the magnitude of clip we walk doing it each day. And hey, if CleanTrace tin prevention a small clip and marque the process much efficient, bully connected it. Should it yet beryllium fashionable with users, tin vacuum gamification beryllium that acold off? https://lnkd.in/gmqzf-kx PM.jpg?resize=1200,653

The Role of Waveguides in AR Glasses While the projection display is the key technology in augmented reality (AR) glasses, the waveguide plays a vital role as well. Let’s delve into what a waveguide is and why it’s essential, as explained by TriLite’s Engineering Director, Manuel Dorfmeister. In AR glasses, an ‘optical combiner’ routes the projector’s light to the wearer’s eye, overlaying images onto the real-world view. Among various optical combiners, waveguides stand out as the best option due to their size, features, and technological basis, which collectively ensure AR glasses meet the necessary dimensions of comfort: social, wearable, and visual. A waveguide channels light from the light engine, entering through an input grating. By utilizing total internal reflection (TIR), the waveguide bends and directs the light internally before it exits through an output grating. This process creates a composite image that integrates real and virtual visual inputs seamlessly.   Typically housed within the frame of the glasses and adjacent to the lens, waveguides are often made from glass and are very thin, ensuring they remain unobtrusive.   This overview highlights the importance of waveguides in Augmented Reality glasses. Discover more in Manuel’s article: https://lnkd.in/dNvHmmgy   #AR #smart #glasses #LBS #laserbeamscanning #display #waveguide #Trixel #Augmented #Reality #Tech #Innovation

Swave Photonics, a spinout of imec, has recently unveiled a groundbreaking prototype showcasing the world's first true color 3D holographic display technology utilizing phase change materials. This innovative display, powered by Swave's chip-based Holographic eXtended Reality technology, boasts the smallest pixel size in the world, enabling precise light manipulation to create high-resolution images with full spatial color. The initial application for Swave's color HXR display technology is set to revolutionize the smart wearables industry with energy-efficient and lightweight smartglasses. The incorporation of spatial color in the display makes it versatile for both indoor and outdoor use, positioning it as the go-to choice for everyday wear, offering users a vibrant and immersive visual experience. #electricalengineering #electronics #embedded #embeddedsystems #electrical #computerchips Follow us on LinkedIn to get daily news: HardwareBee - Electronic News and Vendor Directory

Luxottica (owner of the Ray-Ban brand) is experimenting with smart glasses - and built-in hearing aids (nothing goes in the wearer’s ear) Another reminder: Is software eating the world (Marc Andreessen)...Interesting perspective, as the world(s) of luxury, technology and medicine converge - Luxury and Medtech... With technology, evolving over time - the smart glasses (in partnership with Meta) are an improvement over yesteryear's Google Glasses; this time, replete with an artificial-intelligence (AI) virtual assistant....The specs will be able to see and hear, as well as answer their wearers’ questions .. Would this be the new form factor - to challenge the smartphone era (Glasses?)... As a recent Economist article (URL below) elaborates - the company also plans to bring to market - built in hearing aids - in the smart glasses. The technology uses an algorithm to detect where sounds are coming from based on when they are picked up by different microphones. The spectacles it has developed - then isolate and process the voice of the person the wearer is speaking to and transmit it through tiny built-in speakers #digitaltransformation

Smart glasses displays: transitioning from LCoS to microLED and beyond.? Join us to hear Bernard Kress present at the MicroLED Connect conference and exhibition in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on 25 & 26 Sept 2024 This is the first ever global dedicated MicroLED event and it is where the global MicroLED community connects and learns and defines the future, creating the future display technology and value chain. Join us and the global community from around the world to enjoy a world-class programme featuring super conference talks, expert-led masterclasses, live exhibition floor, and tours. Learn about the agenda and full programme here --> https://lnkd.in/dKvwis9F See you all at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the deep tech capital of Europe where all the big deep tech developments take place. Secure your places before the early bird rates expire and save upto 700 EUROS per person #MicroLED #MiniLED #Displas #OLED #MicroDisplay #AR #VR #XR #AutomotiveDisplay #SmartWatches #ColorConversion #GaN #Transfer #Interconnects #Manufacturing #Yield #Markets #QD #GaN #Monolithic #HeterogeneousIntegration #AdvancedSemiconductorPackaging MicroLED-Info TechBlick Ron Mertens Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh Abstract of the Talk: The fate of LCoS micro display panels for AR devices seems to be re-written every year, its demise being push further away by every new smart glass release. A decade ago, with the first microLED start-ups acquisitions by large corporations developing smart glasses (Apple, Facebook), the immediate future looked quite promising for this technology. 10 years later, the facts are telling a different story: the largest smart glass manufacturers are now using microOLED panels with birdbath architectures, while LCoS or DLP panels as well as MEMS DLP scanners are still the display engine of choice for all waveguide combiner smart glass architectures. So where are the microLED panel we were promised a decade ago? First, LCoS is a technology undergoing successive incremental improvements from power to resolution to contrast to uniformity. It is a well matured technology that can be scaled at 12 inch wafer fab at low cost compatible with consumer products. Moreover, new illumination technologies allow for further LCoS light engine size reduction (front lit panels) and additional power savings (local dimming illumination and color flex operation modes). LCoS is also providing solutions for holographic display, and various other applications as in DWDM all optical switching and free space laser communications. Second, RGB microLED technology has not yet found its standard technology form yet, although industry went away from the early pick and place processes. Today, various architectures are still being tried out such as QD or Perovskites conversion, nanowires with PC effects and true monolithic integration over Silicon substrates, along with other exotic color tuning technologies.