Microsoft's biggest event of the year, Build 2015, started today and amidst all of the Windows 10 reveals, the company also revisited HoloLens, the augmented reality visor introduced by Microsoft earlier this year. Although we're not any closer to knowing exactly when...

Microsoft biggest event of the year 'Build 2015' kicks off today and with it brings promise of more information for their intriguing augmented reality headset, Hololens. Running from April 29-May 1st, Microsoft's Build event has grown to become Microsoft's most important...

Sony have proven once again that they have their fingers on the collective gamers' pulse with a new 'submersive' technology that fuses your love of swimming with your love of gaming. Sony have been at the forefront of wearable and immersive...

We reported recently that the mysterious, massively funded and expertly hyped Magic Leap suffered a minor PR setback as the company cancelled two key public talks, TED being one. Well the company has just released a video that was...

If you thought you were finally getting your hands on some info about the secretive Google-backed startup, Magic Leap, you'd be wrong—at least for now—because amidst much speculation, Magic Leap executives have cancelled their public talks on the technology. Magic Leap is...

Virtual and augmented reality is hitting this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) multimedia festival in Austin in a big way. With more sessions and meetings involving VR than we can count, there's one event happening during the festival for sure not...

MindMaze announced today that it has recently closed an $8.5 million funding round for its "thought-powered VR game system" called MindLeap, a VR/AR headset that uses both electroencephalogram technology (EEG), and integrated 3D motion capture cameras for hand-tracking as a basis for...

Is the future going to be filled with paper thin displays and touch interfaces abound? Microsoft thinks so, because they've been fleshing out their "productivity future vision" concept videos ever since 2009, underlining just that. But what could these omnipresent displays...

The DAQRI Smart Helmet is a prototype in the works by a Los Angeles-based company who is approaching augmented reality from an industrial standpoint rather than a commercial one. It features thermal imaging, head tracking, motion sensing, pattern recognition,...

Additions to the TED 2015 speaker lineup have been announced, and Rony Abovitz, Founder, CEO and President of Magic Leap, is heading to the conference to speak about... to reveal... well, we're not too sure really—par for the course considering the...

On the tail end of this year's GDC, Meta will be hosting their very first 24-hour AR hackathon centered around their Meta 1 Developer Kit, a crowdfunded augmented reality headset that is now shipping out to backers. The event comes after...

SEER, an augmented reality device from San Francisco/Shenzhen based Caputer Labs Inc, launched their Kickstarter campaign in late January, and have already reached beyond $75,000 of their $100,000 funding goal. The device, which takes advantage of the user's smartphone,...

Sulon had an impressive presence at CES 2015, their sizeable booth on the show floor accompanied by eye-catching prototype headsets clearly designed to announce to the world that they'd arrived. Their product, an AR/VR headset named the 'Cortex', has an interesting...

Google will be demoing some of their new sensor-assisted virtual reality technology at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which promises to "enable Holodeck-like experiences with less than $100 add-on cost" to mobile devices. While not explicitly named,...

Unfortunately no cameras or phones were allowed inside the press' special hands-on meeting with Microsoft HoloLens after the device's announcement on Wednesday, so we can't show you a single picture of the only verifiably working model of the new augmented...