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24 alternatives to Polylens - Make your own HoloLens AR display for under £20
Make your own HoloLens AR display for under £20
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Polylens - Make your own HoloLens AR display for under £20 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Augmented reality headset from Microsoft
2015 · learn.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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I made a thing! In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself: "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves" I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays. Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10. In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the…
2022 · wyldcard.io · its alternatives →
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I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images. https://kilopx.com/
2025 · benholmen.com · its alternatives →
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How to create mixed reality apps for HoloLens
2017 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Holo▲322Mix holograms into videos & photos in Augmented Reality
2017 · thisisholo.com · its alternatives →
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The first real holographic computing platform, for devs.
2015 · learn.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Tech blogger talks Apple, AR/VR and HoloLens.
2017 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta). In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well. It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lensabl▲99Super affordable prescription lenses, without leaving home 🤓
2016 · lensabl.com · its alternatives →
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HoloKit▲191Open source mixed reality. Like Google Cardboard for MR.
2017 · holokit.io · its alternatives →
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Customized premium edge-painted cards starting at $35
2015 · oubly.com · its alternatives →
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CharpstAR▲59Empower your customers to shop at home with AR
2020 · signup.charpstar.se · its alternatives →
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A $14,000 gaming chair from Acer
2019 · community.acer.com · its alternatives →
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I am making a virtual HDMI monitor using Viture Pro XR glasses and an SBC ( currently OrangePi 5 Plus because it has HDMI-in ). What it does is map the frames from the HDMI input onto a virtual display that is controlled by the IMU data from the glasses ( 3DOF only ). I've put AR in quotes in the title because many won't view those display glasses as true AR but by tracking the head movement it comes close. I am trying to build kind of a "low cost" version of a virtual screen that acts like a monitor and can be connected to anything that has an HDMI output I started off using the official…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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