Augmented Reality
Two Great Google Glass Parody Videos
Last week Google announced it's Project Glass concept, a head mounted display and AR software aimed toward making augmented reality a practicality for mainstream use. With a big announcement such as that, it didn't take long for the parody videos to...
Google Announces Project Glass, Wants to Bring Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing to the Masses [video]
Augmented reality just got a huge boost today thanks to Google who announced an experimental project that they're calling 'Glass'. Project Glass has apparently been in the works at Google (Google's experimental project group) for some time now. The...
Augmented Reality Hasn’t Proven Itself… Yet.
Augmented reality has such an awesome promise, but I've scarcely seen one useful augmented reality function come to fruition. Augmented reality wants to superimpose digital information over our otherwise analog world. So far, this has only reached consumers in the form...
Lots of ST1080 Info out of CES, Retail Launch Info Due by End of Month
Silicon Micro Display has been touting their ST1080 HMD for a few months now. Back in December they announced that the retail price would be $799 -- pricey, but comparative to Sony's HMZ-T1. Pre-orders were supposed to start in...
Lumus Offers 720p LOE Head Mounted Display Development Kit
Lumus is an Israel based company that's manufactures components for head mounted displays. Specifically, they're offering what they call the 'Optical Engine Module', a display which uses 'LOE' (Light-guided Optical Element) technology to enable a lightweight head mounted display...
Is This the Future of Augmented Reality Gaming?
One of my favorite YouTube directors, Freddie Wong happened to make a video that is quite relevant to this site. The video is called 'Future Motion Control Gaming' and shows a fictional augmented reality gaming setup. But is this...
ST1080 and ST1080 DDK Head Mounted Display Pricing Announced
I've been tracking Silicon Micro Display's ST1080 head mounted display ever since they announced it back in early November. We've already seen most of the specs, but one thing that was missing was the price. I was excited by...
Contact Lens Displays One Step Closer to Reality Thanks to Recent Live Testing
If you've ever done any thinking about augmented reality seen a sci-fi movie, you're undoubtedly familiar with the idea of a contact lens that provides the wearer with a super-futuristic heads up display that shows all sorts of awesome and...
ST1080 HMD Development Kit on Sale and Retail Model Available for Pre-order in December
In addition to a retail model of the ST1080, Silicon Micro Display will be launching a less glamorous version of the ST1080 targeted toward developers. They are calling it the ST1080 DDK (display development kit). As with the ST1080 production unit the price is...
ST1080 HMD by Silicon Micro Display: Specs, Price Coming 12/1
Silicon Micro Display announced the ST1080 head mounted display just a few days back through a press release on the 31st of October. The following day, they dropped dropped most of the specifications for the HMD on their site,...
Silicon Micro Display Announces ST1080 HMD with 10% Transparent 1080p Displays
The ST1080 HMD, which was just recently announced by Silicon Micro Display, is a consumer targeted HMD with dual 1080p displays. Pricing for the ST1080 has not yet been announced, though CEO Paul Jin says that that information will be...
Augmented Reality Will Soon Be Convincingly Modifying Your World
Augmented reality is, at the moment, the novel concept of being able to superimpose something virtual onto your existing world. We've seen some neat, but ultimately useless, informational overlay applications from augmented reality, but nothing quite useful yet. Many of the...





