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Microsoft gets sensible about, and with AR

A new consumer class set of specs that will keep you thin Microsoft has showed a research project prototype of augmented reality smart-glasses that looks like a normal pair of prescription glasses, and isn’t incorrectly designated as mixed reality. The technology is straightforward to anyone involved with AR, but may seem novel to the uninitiated. The prototype was reveled in ...

Jon Peddie

A new consumer class set of specs that will keep you thin Microsoft has showed a research project prototype of augmented reality smart-glasses that looks like a normal pair of prescription glasses, and isn’t incorrectly designated as mixed reality. The technology is straightforward to anyone involved with AR, but may seem novel to the uninitiated. The prototype was reveled in a really interesting research paper. The authors, from Microsoft Research, Andrew Maimone, Andreas Georgiou, and Joel S. Kollin, constructed four prototype displays (described in some detail in the paper). Each prototype included a Holoeye Pluto (model HES- 6010-VIS) liquid crystal
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