March 15, 2023
Google stopped selling Glass Enterprise in March 2023
Google's support notice sets exact end-of-sale and end-of-support dates for Glass Enterprise Edition, while existing units keep working.
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June 5, 2023
Apple Vision Pro shows the world through cameras, not glass
Apple's announcement describes passthrough video, eye tracking and an outward display standing in for see-through optics.
January 1, 2018
A desktop light-field display trades resolution for angle
Looking Glass's own documentation describes up to 100 views across a viewing cone, not two views duplicated.
MetaHuman Creator ships digital humans as reusable rigs
Epic's documentation describes MetaHuman as a framework producing rigged photoreal humans driven by phone-captured performance.
January 21, 2015
Microsoft called HoloLens holographic before it shipped
The 2015 unveiling named waveguide lenses 'holographic' years before HoloLens 2 doubled the field of view.
April 14, 1903
Ives patented a slotted screen that split a photo per eye
US patent 725,567 and a Science Museum stereograph confirm Ives' 1903 parallax barrier, the ancestor of today's glasses-free 3D screens.
Photopolymer film now records holograms without wet chemistry
Bayfol and Litiholo documentation shows self-developing photopolymer has replaced silver halide for volume holograms and AR optics.
January 20, 1939
A patent and a 1938 viewer confirm View-Master's fixed reel
Gruber's stereoscopic-viewer patent and a Science Museum 1938 example show why a fixed-viewpoint reel avoids the alignment problems bigger displays face.
October 1, 1967
A 1967 hologram was calculated, not recorded from light
Lohmann and Paris computed a hologram's interference pattern with a plotter instead of photographing real interfering light.
August 14, 2018
Codec Avatars render a scanned face, not a live scene
Two Meta research papers describe how a photoreal avatar is built and driven, a different claim from a live volumetric feed.
A UK museum catalogues 901 hologram-related items online
The Science Museum Group's database records 901 hologram entries, from a 1965 laser test to a 1987 Lindow Man scan, as retrieved.
March 28, 2008
A 2008 study measured fatigue from a stereo display conflict
Hoffman et al.'s 2008 Journal of Vision study measured how mismatched focus and convergence cause fatigue after 45 minutes of stereo viewing.
December 1, 1862
John Henry Pepper's own account explains the ghost's glass trick
Pepper's 1890 memoir and the patent text it quotes describe the hidden stage and angled glass behind the Victorian ghost illusion.
August 1, 1996
A light field is a claim about how many rays you capture
The 1996 light field rendering paper defines the function a light-field display must approximate, and what capturing it costs.
September 25, 2024
Meta showed AR glasses it does not plan to sell yet
Orion demonstrates a glasses-scale waveguide but the company says it will not become a shipping product.
A hologram fan's real hazard is the invisible blade
HYPERVSN's own installation rules set mandatory clearances a striking demo can obscure.
January 1, 1996
A modular panel's own patents specify a 120-degree zone
Light Field Lab's marketing pages were unreachable; its own patents state a real, specific viewing angle instead.
November 1, 2019
The Mandalorian's LED volume replaced backdrops with pixels
ILM's documentation describes camera-tracked Unreal Engine renders on an LED wall, debuted on the series in November 2019.
November 8, 2006
Cisco's 2006 filings describe a room, not just a screen
SEC earnings filings from Cisco's first year of TelePresence describe the product but not its room geometry.
March 18, 2020
An iPhone LiDAR scanner brought depth to everyday scans
Apple's 2020 announcements and ARKit documentation specify a five-metre depth sensor feeding real-time mesh reconstruction.