17Jun Don’t look down! Inition explores VR Vertigo. Posted in Augmented Reality, News, Oculus Rift | Leave a comment Virtual Reality promises to pull us into digital worlds and convince our brain we’re elsewhere, even if those places are dangerous. We look at Inition’s ingenious interactive VR experiment designed expressly to terrify you.
21Apr Google Glass News Bits: Online Manual Reveals New Features, Glass Goes Go Karting Posted in Augmented Reality, Google Glass, Head Mounted Display, News | 3 Comments Google Glass videos are starting to pop up as the AR glasses reach early adopters. One video shows a cool perspective on a go kart race. Google has published the Glass manual online which reveals some official Google Glass specs more »
20Apr First Google Glass Unboxing Video Appears as Early Adopters Begin Receiving Units Posted in Augmented Reality, Google Glass, Head Mounted Display, News, wearable computing | 4 Comments Google Glass Explorer Dev Kits are being delivered to developers – and following suit are the first unboxing videos that show the device’s great production quality. Last year at Google’s I/O conference, the web behemoth offered an exclusive look into more »
12Mar First Videos of Google Glass Interface Emerge from SXSW, Early Third-party Apps Previewed Posted in Augmented Reality, Google Glass, News, wearable computing | 4 Comments The Google Glass interface has been detailed on video at the annual SXSW event for the first time. The company also showed off early native and third-party Google Glass apps including Gmail, Evernote, New York Times, and more. SXSW Interactive more »
27Feb Everything We Know About Google Glass Posted in Augmented Reality, Featured Slider, Google Glass, Head Mounted Display, News, wearable computing | 2 Comments Google Glass could be the first product to take augmented reality into the mainstream. The forthcoming minimal head mounted display promises to make our interaction with technology more seamless and natural. There are many who will welcome it. There are more »
20Feb New Google Glass Pictures Reveal Hidden Sensor [gallery] Posted in Augmented Reality, Google Glass, Head Mounted Display, News, wearable computing | 3 Comments Along with the new video that we pointed out earlier, the company has released some cool new Google Glass pictures. One of the photos shows something we haven’t seen before; on the inside of the eye-boom there is a vertical more »
20Feb New Google Glass Video Shows What It Feels Like to Wear [video] Posted in Augmented Reality, Google Glass, News, wearable computing | 5 Comments You’ll probably have noticed that Road to VR is rather excited for Google’s fledgling Augmented Reality project, codename ‘Google Glass‘. It’s a project shrouded in mystery and it’s secrets tightly guarded, as evidenced by the strict NDAs required by attendees more »
18Jan Innovega Demonstrates Progress on iOptik Contact Lenses for Augmented Reality [video] Posted in Augmented Reality, News, wearable computing | 6 Comments The last time we heard from Innovega was back in April. They demonstrated their iOptik contact lens which allows users to focus their view on images that are extremely close to the eye. At CES 2013 last week, Innovega showed more »
12Dec Book of Spells Review; Harry Potter Augmented Reality Game on PS3 Posted in Augmented Reality, Augmented Reality Games | Leave a comment Last month Sony launched Book of Spells, a Harry Potter augmented reality game that takes advantage of the PlayStation Move and new ‘Wonderbook’ peripheral. The game, which is intended for children, uses the Wonderbook as a tracking marker for the more »
10Dec Free AR App Idea: Keyboard Trainer Posted in Augmented Reality | 3 Comments If you’ve been following along for a bit here at Road to VR, you know I’ve got a chip on my shoulder when it comes to AR. So far we’ve seen few useful implementations of augmented reality. The technology exists to convincingly more »
