This Week In XR: New XR Hardware From NReal And Lenovo

Consumer Tech This Week In XR: New Headware From NReal And Lenovo Charlie Fink Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A former tech executive covering XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Sep 29, 2022, 08:15pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Lenovo ThinkReality VRX standalone can go anywhere, and be used by anyone with minimal skill or . . .

[+] instruction. Lenovo The VRX standalone from Lenovo is a brand new device from a company still new to XR. Lenovo launched its tethered ThinkReality A3 smartglasses in 2019.

The new HMD focuses on a growing remote corporate training market. Nreal’s Air smartglasses, launched in Asia earlier year, is targeting the massive mobile market with a screen replacement, or supplement, which could launch a new era in mobile and wearables. No one has nailed the consumer use case for AR glasses nor screen replacement, yet.

The ThinkReality VRX standalone sports thin “pancake” lenses, andf color passthrough cameras . . .

[+] enabling both VR and AR experiences. Lenovo Lenovo Debuts New Think Reality Enterprise Headset . The ThinkReality VRX standalone is going to be a competitor of the Vive Focus and Pico Neo 3 for business applications.

The HMD sports thinner “pancake” lenses that slim down the form factor, along with additional color passthrough cameras enabling both VR and AR experiences. The battery in the back of the headset provides a nice counterbalance to the device. No word on price or release date, but Lenovo did say its ThinkReality VRX will be available to select partners later this year.

Nreal says its glasses make the computer’s screen the equivalent of watching a 130-inch screen from . . .

[+] three meters away Nreal Nreal Air Now Available on Amazon for $379. A different take on smart glasses, these dispense with outward facing cameras and sensors in favor of a screen with a 46 degree field of view. The equivalent, says nReal, of watching a 130-inch screen from three meters away or a 201-inch screen from a distance of six meters.

In addition to videos and games, the expansive display could be used to mirror anything on the smartphone screen. MORE FOR YOU Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users Forget The MacBook Pro, Apple Has Bigger Plans Google Discounts Pixel 6, Nest & Pixel Buds In Limited-Time Sale Event A virtual world as illustrated by Hadean. Hadean Distributed computing startup Hadean nabs $30M to power the metaverse.

The UK-based start up builds metaverse infrastructure that powers massive multiplayer games like Minecraft. Hadean is also working with the British Army to support training simulations. The Series A round of funding came from Epic Games, Tencent and others.

The company describes its new games on Roblox as an experiment in The Metaverse. Wal-Mart The Game’s Not Shopping In The Wal-Mart Metaverse on Roblox. Working with new experience design firm Journey, Walmart is entering the Roblox metaverse with two experiences, Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play .

William White, Walmart’s chief marketing officer, emphasized the company’s strategy is experimentation and education, as everyone is just figuring out what the metaverse may mean for the world’s largest retailers. Rec Room’s New Unity-powered Creation Suite Brings Industry Standard Tools to Social VR Platform . Rec Room creations can be brought into Unity where assets from Maya, blender, asset stores, can be added, along with textures, physics and animation.

Neal Stephenson‘s Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper on building the open metaverse. The company explained its mission is to deliver a Layer 1 blockchain, tools and decentralized services for the open metaverse, providing communities with infrastructure, not gatekeepers, to build a more immersive and fair internet that protects users and rewards creators. The company has a multi-pronged approach: Layer 1 blockchain, metaverse-as-a-Service (MaaS), community economic participation and incentives and original content.

NAPLES, ITALY – 2022/09/29: The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, receives from the rector Matteo Lorito (on . . .

[+] right), the honorary degree by the Federico II University of Naples. (Photo by Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images Not Too Long From Now, You’ll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR said Apple CEO Tim Cook in response to a question at Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in Naples, Italy, where he is receiving an honorary degree. “If you look back… you’ll wonder how you led your life without augmented reality.

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