VR/AR

Cable management specialist, HellermannTyton UK has opened a Virtual Reality (VR) experience at its Cannock site. The investment in VR technology forms a part of the HellermannTyton ACADEMY; a centre which allows visitors and customers to gain hands-on experience with the business’s vast range of cable management solutions.

A complete portfolio of VR sensors enabling a new class of highly accurate and affordable all-in-one VR solutions has been launched by TDK Corporation. The key platform components includes the InvenSense ICM-42688 six-axis motion sensor for HMDs, which provides the low noise figure and features high-resolution measurement mode.

How do you visualise the right light for your store or city before you buy? Signify, the lighting specialist, is helping its customers do just this with the help of apps that provide an experience, showcasing the possibilities for lighting using virtual reality (VR). Now customers can step into a virtual world to visualise how lighting can transform their fashion store or city street.

It has been announced that TDK Corporation is expanding its Chirp Microsystems ultrasonic product portfolio with Chirp SonicTrack, an ultrasonic six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) controller tracking solution for all-in-one virtual reality systems. Chirp SonicTrack is an inside-out tracking system that fuses ultrasonic and inertial sensor data to provide 6-DoF position and orientation tracking of a hand-held controller with sub-millimetre precision ov...

Leap Motion and 7invensun integrated technology, together with the new open-palm controllers, allow Pimax to give VR enthusiasts a truly immersive experience. The most crowdfunded VR brand in the world, Pimax, will showcase its 8K series VR headsets with brand new Pimax controllers, designed to free your hand for an open-palm immersive experience. The headsets are embedded with Leap Motion and 7invensun technology and together the three bran...

ams and Face++ have agreed a co-operation arrangement to accelerate OEMs’ and system integrators’ deployments of 3D optical sensing technologies such as face recognition. This partnership means that manufacturers can go to market faster with systems for performing functions such as face recognition, facial payments, Animoji creation and augmented/virtual reality.

The release of version 2018.12 of the Synopsys RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite, which introduces new features to advance the design of optics used in augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) systems, has been announced by Synopsys. The latest RSoft release supports Synopsys' optical design workflow for nano-textured diffractive optical elements that enable smaller, lightweight AR/VR devices with improved displays and immersive experien...

Situated next to the world-famous Wembley Stadium, a fully immersive virtual reality (VR) experience centre from ImmotionVR can take visitors to the London Designer Outlet (LDO) at Wembley Park into new realms thanks to motion simulators, wrap-around sound and multi-direction movement. One minute they could be travelling around the globe with Santa’s elves making sure presents are delivered on time, the next they’re in space and tryin...

Developer of optoelectronic technology, Plessey, has announced that it has been named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Embedded Technologies category. The company has been recognised for its monolithic microLED displays, which reportedly deliver greater light output, better contrast and improved resolution in AR applications.

Developer of optoelectronic technology solutions, Plessey, is collaborating with EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, to bring high-performance GaN-on-Silicon (GaN-on-Si) monolithic microLED technology to the mass market. microLEDs are a key optical technology for next-generation AR applications.