Innovega is a Washington-based company that's working on contact lenses that use filters to allow the eye to simultaneously focus on objects at varying distances. The development could help make augmented reality a practicality by greatly reducing the bulk of HMD...

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...

Silicon Micro Display's has just recently specified the exact 2D and 3D video formats that will be supported by their soon-to-launch HMD, the ST1080: ST1080 3D Video Formats: 1920x1080p @ 24Hz Frame Packing (full resolution) 1920x1080p @ 24Hz Top-and-Bottom (half resolution) 1920x1080i @...

Update: Another video from CeBIT has the rep stating the the head-tracking hardware runs an additional €100, but it still isn't clear if this is third-party or being offered directly from Carl Zeiss. I've put the question out to...

We've been following the ST1080 head mounted display from Silicon Micro Display for the last few months. The company is finally getting ready to put their first product out on the market after some delays, and have announced that...

Sony seems to have majorly underestimated demand for their recently released HMZ-T1 head mounted display. Stock shortages were apparently worldwide at launch, and Sony's US HMZ-T1 product page no longer lists 1/17/12 as the estimated ship date for new...

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...

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...

The other week I reported that Sony's HMZ-T1 HMD, which 'launched' on 11/11/11, had been backordered and pushed back to an estimated availability date of 1/17/12. All store stock was going to be diverted to those who had pre-ordered...

Today, Silicon Micro Display has announced that they'll be attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show which will be held from January 10th to the 13th. CES is a huge consumer electronics exhibition (likely the largest in the US) and is a platform...