Two of the most iconic Sci-Fi movies ever are without a doubt The Terminator and Robocop. Despite being products of the late 80s, these films are still beloved today, decades later. One of the most striking technologies that these movies showed audiences was something later dubbed “Terminator Vision”. You see, in both these films we … Continue reading Google Lens Now Recognizes a BILLION Products
When it comes to VR display resolution, the war is certainly starting to gain intensity. Although current mobile display technology has achieved incredibly pixel densities, they still fall rather short when places just an inch or two from your eyeballs. So everyone seems to be chasing the holy grail – “retinal” VR displays. In the … Continue reading Facebook Nails Down Retinal Resolution VR Headset Patent
Motion sickness is a real bummer. It basically happens when there is a mismatch between the perceived movements your eyes are reporting to your brain and what your inner ear balance system tells you. This has been a problem for virtual worlds since what seems like forever. There are many stories of people playing classic … Continue reading Could This White Noise Gizmo Spell the End of VR Motion Sickness?
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
Traversal of VR spaces is still one of the hardest things to get right. At one point, we all thought that home-based omnidirectional treadmills would be the ultimate in VR setups at home. In truth, the home market for this sort of product is simply too niche. So now the only place you’re likely to … Continue reading Brilliant Sole Put You Into VR Feet-First
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
We’ve been waiting for the much-hyped Magic Leap AR headset for years. If nothing else, the company is a master of using mystery to get the punters interested in a product. After being tortured with teasers and small leaks, the first developer edition of their hardware finally made it into third-party hands. While the actual … Continue reading Magic Leap One Gets a Game. Spoiler, It’s Angry Birds
Whatever you think of Elon Musk, you can’t argue that the man has small dreams. Practical electric cars people actually want, reusable rockets, solar roof tiles, giant lithium batteries for your house, hyperloops subways and giant boring machines. These are just a few of the things that Musk’s companies Tesla and SpaceX have brought us. … Continue reading Not A Billionaire? SpaceX Offers VR Alternative to Moon Tour
I associate VR with a lot of use cases, but web browsing isn’t always one that comes immediately to mind. Of course growing up a lot of cyberpunk literature described browsing the web as something done in fully-immersive virtual worlds. When I finally did get a dial-up modem it was less Johnny Mnemonic and more waiting … Continue reading Mozilla Launches a VR Browser
