$100 million—get outta here Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses maker Nreal raised $100 million and will use it for international expansion and development of new products. It has been suggested that the funding values Nreal at $700 million. The company was founded in 2017 in Beijing, China, by Bing Xiao and Chi Xu (who used to be at Magic … Read more
The doctor will see you now—bring your checkbook Magic Leap was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010 and raised $2.6 billion from a prestigious list of investors. In December 2016, Forbes estimated that Magic Leap was worth $4.5 billion. On July 11, 2018, AT&T invested in the company and became its exclusive partner. Singapore’s Temasek valued the startup at … Read more
Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses maker Nreal raised $100 million and will use it for international expansion and development of new products.
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Alex Wesley with collapsible projection screens (Source Next Corps Illuminate) Alexander (Alex) Wesley founded Arovia with George Zhu, CTO, and Justin Mintzer, CMO, in Houston, Texas, in April 2015. Wesley started Arovia after leaving optical metrology developer, Zygo in Connecticut in 2014. In between, he developed the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD). The idea for SPUD came from years of … Read more
Acer America announced the Aspire Vero notebook. The company says it is their first sustainability-focused product. It is one of Acer’s first products powered by Windows 11, is eco-friendly, EPEAT Silver-certified, which features post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout the chassis and keyboard with 100% recyclable packaging. It also has antimicrobial Corning gorilla glass, an alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass formulated with … Read more
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in 1884. Their stated hope was to “collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow.”
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in … Read more
Electronic Arts have joined GeForce Now and will allow some of their most beloved franchises to be acquired by the growing global audience instantly.
In September 2020, Chen Weiliang started MetaX (Mu Xi) Integrated Circuit Co. in the Pudong Lingang Special Area of Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone. At their founding, Weiliang said the company would develop artificial intelligence processors consisting of ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs. Weiliang, with a Master’s degree from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, had been a senior GPU researcher … Read more
On a cool early autumn day in Bellingham, WA, in 1965. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—SPIE staff were still in the glow of celebrating their 15th anniversary when they published Frederic Billingsley’s paper, Digital Video Processing at JPL.
