What are Head-mounted Displays? If you’ve ever watched TV or browsed the internet, the phrase ‘Virtual Reality’ probably conjures up a very specific image in your mind: that awesome helmet. Well, they’re real. They’re called head-mounted displays, or HMDs, and they are probably the most instantly recognizable objects associated with virtual reality. As such, they … Continue reading Head-mounted Displays (HMDs)
HMD Name: Glyph Designer: Avegant Website: http://avegant.com/ Estimated price $599 Display type: Retinal projection Resolution: 1280×800 per eye Field of view: 45 degrees Head tracking: Yes (mouse/gamepad emulation) Eye Tracking: No Audio: Built-in (non-removable) Refresh rate: 120Hz Latency: 12ms Optics: Diopter and interpupillary adjustment. Inputs: HDMI and MHL Type: Tethered to external computer The extraordinarily … Continue reading Avegant Glyph Virtual Reality Headset
HMD Name: Fove (Developer kit) Designer: Fove Website: http://www.getfove.com/ Estimated price $350 (Developer kit) Display type: LCD (not final) Resolution: 1280×1440 per eye Field of view: 45 degrees (100+ projected feature) Head tracking: Yes Eye Tracking: Yes, infrared, 120fps per eye Audio: Own headphones (projected feature) Refresh rate: 60Hz (90Hz projected) Latency: TBA/Unknown Optics: TBA/Unknown … Continue reading Fove Virtual Reality Headset
There’s an exciting branch of computer technology known as affective computing. Yes. that’s “affective” and not “effective”. Affective computing is all about how we can integrate human emotional states into computing. It includes both how computers can read and understand our emotions as well as how they can reproduce them in different ways. Why would … Continue reading How Does that Make You Feel?: Facial Tracking Comes to VR
A Texas jury yesterday has awarded ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda and iD Software $500 million dollars after finding that Oculus and founder Palmer Luckey had breached a non-disclosure agreement, as well as infringed on ZeniMax’s copyright. The jury did find against allegations that Oculus stole ZeniMax’s trade secrets and as a result the ultimate … Continue reading ZeniMax Awarded $500 Million in Major Legal Case against Oculus
The promise of affordable, high quality virtual reality may have come closer. A crowdsourced mobile VR setup launched on Kickstarter that promises to transform your smartphone into a SteamVR compatible VR setup for less than $100 has successfully made its funding target in just eight hours. NOLO VR, a project by Beijing-based startup LYRobotix and led … Continue reading Smartphone SteamVR Kit NOLO Kickstarted in Eight Hours
As the curtain drops on CES International 2016, there is one clear and very obvious takeaway. Forget self-driving cars and 8k curved TV’s; VR is the Next Big Thing. That much was made obvious by the sheer number of HMD manufacturers, software vendors and third-party hardware companies vying for attention on the exhibition floor, as … Continue reading VR Fever Sweeps CES 2016 Show
There are several subtle but very compelling hints that Apple may be planning to get into the VR space, and may have already assembled a secret team that is working on Apple-branded VR. Apple are famously tight-lipped about future projects, but during a recent earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about VR specifically. … Continue reading Apple May Be Developing A Secret VR Platform
VPL Research was a company founded in 1984 by Jaron Lanier, who is often regarded as the person who coined the term virtual reality. He is also credited with further popularising the term. The company was started in the corner of Lanier’s cottage, in Palo Alto, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, made … Continue reading VPL Research Jaron Lanier
