VR headsets, despite any apparent stagnation, are a hot area of development. Plenty of different companies are working on ways to improve the current generation of VR eyewear. So we’ve seen motorized screens, foveated rendering, curved screens, special lenses and more. Despite how good current VR headsets like the Oculus are, you have to admit … Continue reading The Varjo Bionic Display: We Have the Technology
Virtual reality will eventually tackle every one of our sensory inputs. For now, we have the audio-visual end of things well-covered. Although there’s still plenty of room for advancing the state of the art. There isn’t quite as much attention being given to the olfactory side of things however. That is to say, your sense … Continue reading FeelReal Plans to Get Up Your Nose with Their Kickstarter
While VR has reached an incredibly level of fluidity and realism, there’s still a lot of work to be done before we can produce all the visual inputs the human eye and brain expects. Ever since Facebook bought Oculus, they’ve really been investing in basic research to push the VR industry forward. One of the … Continue reading Facebook Makes DeepFocus VR Rendering Technology Open Source
Despite what the usual negative people have to say about it, it’s clear to anyone with eyes that VR technology has finally reached the point where it is ready for prime time. Market uptake has however been slower than one would like. A lot of this has to do with the cost of VR, especially … Continue reading The Oculus Quest Could Give VR the Boost it Needs
It wasn’t too long ago that we reported on the EV2 revision of Valve’s VR motion controllers, but it seems the company has not been resting on its laurels after the last round of improvements. In a Steam Community blog post the team provided all the details we need to know about their work. The … Continue reading Valve’s Latest Knuckles EV3 Controllers Revealed
The modern VR revolution needed quite a lot of different branches of technology to reach a certain points before something like the Oculus Rift or Vive is possible. The main ones that we usually point to are smartphone components. The motion sensors and high resolution displays in modern premium VR systems all only here because … Continue reading The Next Generation of GPUs are Upon Us
The Samsung Gear VR products are probably the best and most successful series of mobile VR headsets on the market today. If you ignore HMDs with narrow appeal, such as single-model Google Daydream units, then there’s not much competition. Working with Oculus, Samsung was able to create something that was elegant, easy to use and … Continue reading Gear VR to Become “Galaxy VR”?
Has the Sony PSVR been a success? That depends on how you look at it. More than 100 million PS4 consoles have been sold at this point and about a million PSVR units to go with them. That’s a small percentage, but in absolute terms that’s still an install base of respectable. At the same … Continue reading Oh No They Didn’t! Microsoft Reverses Xbox One X VR Plans
The Lenovo Mirage Solo joins an ever-growing list of standalone VR headsets. In other words, you don’t need a computer or a smartphone to use this headset. It is purpose-built to do mobile VR and nothing else. On balance, this means that these headsets can do a better job of mobile VR while at the … Continue reading The Mirage Solo: Yay or Nay?
Standalone VR headsets are starting to take off now. The most prominent device is the Oculus Go. These headsets are self-contained. They don’t need a smartphone or a tethered computer in order to work. Since they are purpose built for VR and do nothing else, the hardware is optimized. The screens, power profile, batteries and … Continue reading The Snapdragon XR1 Promises Mobile VR & AR Heaven
