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‘Wearality SKY’ Promises Pocketable 150 Degree FOV VR Smartphone Adapter, Kickstarter is Live

Wearality wants to make mobile VR even more mobile with their VR smartphone adapter that not only delivers a seriously wide field of view (FOV) at an impressive 150 degrees, but also folds up to fit neatly in your pocket. Wearality SKY...

MindMaze Raises $8.5m in Angel Funding for “Thought-Powered” VR Headset

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...

SEER 100 Degree FOV ‘Augmented Reality’ Headset Approaches $100,000 Kickstarter Goal

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,...

Sony to Discuss “Unique social experiences possible only with Project Morpheus” and More at GDC

Sony is bringing back Project Morpheus to this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, now with updated information on the VR headset that promises to expound new applications for the VR side of their PlayStation ecosystem. See Also: Sony Morpheus...

Google’s Chief Game Designer to Talk Tango at GDC, Augmenting Virtual Reality with the Real World

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,...

Valve Has Tips, Tricks, and VR Standards to Share at GDC 2015

Valve isn't holding another Steam Dev Days this year, a developers conference organized by the company in 2014. Instead they seem to be focusing their developer outreach energy on March's rapidly approaching Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Alex...

Microsoft’s ‘Mixed Reality’ HoloLens Garners Mixed Reviews, Incredible Potential Diminished by Small Field of View

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...
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Students Create Real World AdBlock, Keeps Your Augmented Reality Ad-Free

The University of Pennsylvania's winter hackathon, PennApps, is now over, and we're not surprised to see a few VR experiences in the winners circle. Brand Killer, an application running on a custom-built VR headset, was unfortunately not among them, but...

Samsung Talks Gear VR Development and Thoughts of a VR Feature Phone Way Back in 2005

Details have emerged about the evolutionary past of Samsung's Gear VR, offering a look at the formational stages of the device's history. The pictures show some prototype design concepts that explore an interesting relationship between the smartphone and the VR...

WIRED Calls Microsoft’s HoloLens ‘Amazing’ After Hands-On

We just covered Microsoft's surprise reveal of it's new Augmented Reality headset dubbed 'Hololens'. It seems tech magazine Wired has already seen the device and is seemingly amazed by what they saw. Windows 10's promising lineup of new features just...

CES 2015: Avegant’s Allan Evans on the Glyph’s new Design, Launch and Future (video)

We caught up with Allan Evans, CTO at Avegant, home of the unique personal media viewer - the Glyph, to talk about their new 'near final' design and the future of the device.CES 2015 has been all about picking...

Hands-on with Fove’s First Eye-tracking HMD Prototype

At Engadget Expand 2014 in NYC I got to take a look at Fove, a head mounted display with integrated eye-tracking. This is an older prototype made some time ago, but demonstrates the core technology and potential benefits of eye-tracking...

Exclusive: Homido Launches VR Smartphone Adapter and Sleek App for VR Video with Web Browser on...

Today Homido is launching a new VR smartphone adapter along with a sleek app designed to play 360 degree, cylindrical, 3D, and 2D videos in a virtual reality format on iOS and Android smartphones. The Homido VR smartphone adapter is...

Google Reveals ‘Cardboard’, a low-cost VR Smartphone Adapter and VR Toolkit SDK at IO 2014—Breaking

At this week's Google IO 2014, the company's annual developer conference, the search giant is handing out 'Cardboard', a low-cost VR headset adapter for smartphones. The company is also making freely available an open 'VR Toolkit' and SDK to...

E3 2014: First Look ‒  GameFace Labs Mark 5 Prototype, VR Never Looked So Good

I just got my head out of 2.5k VR and it was beautiful. Road to VR today got the first glimpse at GameFace Lab's newest 'Mark 5' prototype. The unit features a completely new design from what we've seen in...
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