External press release
22 May 2020

Arenko Provides National Grid Upward and Downward Reserve Flexibility
Arenko Group is pleased to be supporting National Grid by exclusively trialling a new upward and downward reserve flexibility service from its 41MW Bloxwich battery asset in a first of its kind trial for batteries.
22 May 2020

Mixed Reality in a Time of COVID-19
Recently the versatility of mixed and augmented reality products has come to the forefront of the news, with an Imperial led project at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Doctors have been wearing the Microsoft Hololens headsets whilst working on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, to aid them in their care for their patients.
14 May 2020

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.
2 Apr 2020

BMW Uses Blockchain to Drive Supply Chain Transparency
The BMW Group is using innovative digital technologies to optimise its processes. A good example of this is Blockchain, a technology that enables tamper-proof data sharing, with potential applications throughout the entire automotive value chain.
Topic overview
1 Apr 2020

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.
Topic overview
27 Mar 2020

Waveguides in AR and MR devices
Waveguides are an important part of augmented reality or mixed reality device. This premium article introduces waveguides, based on data from the IDTechEx Report "Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality 2020-2030".
31 Jan 2020

First True Smart Contact Lens
Mojo Vision is building the world's first true smart contact lens, called the Mojo Lens. Mojo Lens is a contact lens with a built-in display that gives people the useful and timely information they want without forcing them to look down at a screen or losing focus on the people and the world around them.
23 Jan 2020

Microsoft Announces it will be Carbon Negative by 2030
Microsoft Corp announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.
Update interview
15 Jan 2020

2AI - Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
2AI pursues research on fundamental advances in AI for the development of technically innovative solutions. IDTechEx spoke to members of 2AI involved in the development of LaserNAVI, a collaborative robot for patient-specific laser treatment of vascular lesions.
Youtube interview
14 Jan 2020

Designer Integrates 3D Printing and Future Fabrics for Bespoke Fashion
Kitty Yeung is a physicist, artist, maker, fashion designer and musician based in Silicon Valley, California. She currently manages the Bay Area Microsoft Garage, a program that drives a culture of innovation at Microsoft.
13 Jan 2020

Bell Reveals the City of the Future
Bell Textron Inc reveals a vivid look into the future of the smart city ecosystem. The Bell Nexus air taxi and the Autonomous Pod Transport will coexist to move people, products and information across connected cities.
External press release
3 Jan 2020

Award-Winning Glove is First Affordable All-Day Wireless VR/AR Haptic
BeBop Sensors will announce the first VR haptic glove integrated and exclusively designed for Oculus Quest, Oculus Link, Oculus Rift S, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive Pro, HTC Focus Plus, and Varjo VR headset technology.
Background
31 Dec 2019

Neurobit Technologies
IDTechEx spoke with Roger Chen, COO and co-founder of Neurobit Technologies.
12 Dec 2019

2019: A year of XR Technology
This premium article rounds up some of the news stories from XR (AR, VR and MR) topics in 2019.
12 Dec 2019

Improved Online Shopping with 'Distributed Deep Learning" Breakthrough
Online shoppers typically string together a few words to search for the product they want, but in a world with millions of products and shoppers, the task of matching those unspecific words to the right product is one of the biggest challenges in information retrieval.
Update
29 Nov 2019

Becure
IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Becure CEO Dr Ismail Uzun. Becure is a games developer, working on personalized games for rehabilitation.
6 Nov 2019

Creating the Market: Technology Development is Only Half the Work
Printed electronics has many successful market creation stories and certain materials or components have moved rapidly but sometimes, inventing the enabling technology is only half the work.
Background
1 Nov 2019

Dispelix
Dispelix was founded in 2011, and span out of VTT in 2015. IDTechEx visited their booth at AWE EU 2019 to learn about their latest progress in setting up their manufacturing facility for their waveguide products.