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Which Way to the Fridge? Common Sense Helps Robots Navigate

A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the living room couch and point B is a refrigerator, even if it's in an unfamiliar place. That's the common-sense idea behind a "semantic" navigation system.

Augmented and Virtual Reality: Technology of the Future, Today

By 2030, IDTechEx predicts the augmented, virtual and mixed reality market to be over $30Bn. With COVID limiting physical interaction, virtual communication and interaction will be the normal for many years to come.

AR/VR/MR 2020: A six-month review

This article provides an overview of the AR/VR/MR market for the first half of 2020.

Ynvisible Expands Its Printed Electrochromics Offering

Ynvisible Interactive Inc has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. The license agreement covers RISE's intellectual property rights for printed electrochromic displays and related inks.

DSP Group

IDTechEx interviewed Ofer Elaykim and Tali Chen, CEO and CMO respectively of DSP Group. In this profile we give an overview of the company as well as details about their more recent focus on hearables and the related acquisition of SoundChip.

What Happened to Magic Leap?

Magic Leap laid off 1000 employees in April 2020, and has switched to a enterprise market rather than a consumer market. Why?

Reactive Additive Manufacturing Enables Printing of Metal Powders

Popular high strength wrought aluminum alloys could not previously be printed because they suffer hot tearing (solidification cracking), resulting in parts with very poor mechanical properties. The RAM process forms sub-micron inoculants in the melt pool that nucleate aluminum grains to produce a fine equiaxed microstructure for good printability and exceptional performance.

Ynvisible & Evonik Announce Collaboration in Printed Electronics

Ynvisible and Evonik announce a collaboration in the field of printable electronics and introduce a first joint technology demonstrator. The collaboration combines Evonik's printable battery materials with electrochromic displays from Ynvisible, opening up novel product design possibilities for Internet-of-Things and other everyday smart product applications.

Ynvisible Acquires Business of Electrochromic Display Company Rdot

Ynvisible Interactive Inc announces a Business Transfer Agreement to acquire the printed electrochromic displays business of rdot AB of Gothenburg, Sweden. The deal expands Ynvisible's client list, strengthens the Company's sales and marketing team and brings new assets to its digital marketing and product creation.

Elementum 3D Achieves ISO 9001 Certification

Elementum 3D announced that it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management.

Ynvisible Announces Closing of $1.5M Non-brokered Private Placement

Ynvisible Interactive Inc will be closing, subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange, a non-brokered private placement of 7,500,000 common shares of the Company at $0.20 per Share to raise gross proceeds of $1,500,000.

VR - A Method of Online Interaction?

This premium article discusses some of the ways by which VR devices are providing a means for online social interaction.

Training in the Age of Social Distancing. AR/VR/MR the Answer?

In the age of social distancing, training and maintenance of many complicated tasks and services has come to a standstill. However, there are technological solutions to this problem.

VELO3D Raises $28 Million in Series D Funding Round

VELO3D has raised $28 million in a Series D funding round. New investors Piva and TNSC joined the round, along with existing investors Bessemer Investment Partners, Playground, and Khosla Ventures. This brings VELO3D's total funding to $138 million.

Atlis Motor Vehicles

Atlis Motor Vehicles founded in 2016, is an EV startup developing an all-electric pickup truck along with battery and charging station technology. They are headquartered in Mesa, Arizona.

World's Only Patented Graphene Solar Panel

PV Graf technology eliminates thermal stress during production and cracking that results from that production - resulting in dramatically longer service life and far better, lasting efficiency. Production costs are also lowered by removing the need for metals like silver and copper.

What immersive experiences can benefit from VR?

Flight simulation is one industry which can benefit from the introduction of VR for training. This premium article discusses the various ways VR can be used for training simulations.

Ynvisible and NXN Collaborate on New Electrochromic Colors

Ynvisible Interactive Inc has entered into a collaboration agreement with NxtGen Nano Inc to expand the range of colors for electrochromic inks.

Virtual Reality: To Be or Not to Be?

XR is a term which has become more prominent in the last few years. It encapsulates virtual, augmented, and mixed reality topics. The definition of each of these has become saturated in the past decade, with companies using their own definitions for each to describe their products.

Very Slow is Better: Mesh Networks, IOT to Drones

In engineering and science, the race for faster is well known. It spans from 5G streaming videos in seconds to Hyperloop and space tourism. However, if we are to have the envisaged tens of billions of Internet of Things nodes deployed, they must cost under two cents each and work on a whisper of electricity. No. We must go even further in redefining the problem.