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Inreal Technologies Virtualizes Architecture Environments, Working on VR Locomotion Device and More

Inreal Technologies is a German-based startup that is offering a virtual reality terminal which is targeted toward architecture visualization. The terminal incorporates the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer head mounted display which is combined with a head-tracker developed by Inreal which...

Datura Virtual Reality Setup Using Sony HMZ-T1 HMD

Though the big news lately has been about the Oculus Rift, Sony's HMZ-T1 is still a solid HMD option thanks to its 720p resolution and incredible OLED displays. A few months back, Platige Image was brought in to create an...

John Carmack Talks Doom 4 Oculus Rift Integration in New Interview at QuakeCon 2012

GameTrailers caught up with John Carmack, at QuakeCon 2012, who has been giving the media demos of the Oculus Rift since E3 in early June. This is essentially the same spiel we've heard from Carmack at E3 with the...

Silicon Micro Display ST1080 HMD Update Adds 720p Scaling

Silicon Micro Display's ST1080 head mounted display has been on the market for a few months now. The HMD has been lauded for its high resolution 1080p display but shipped without the ability to scale up 720p content to...

Oculus Rift Kickstarter Adds Bulk-buy Dev-team Tiers with Premium Support

The Oculus Rift Kickstarter continues to raise funds; check the sidebar on the right and you'll find that it is currently sitting at $1.34 million, 536% of the funding goal. Given the excitement, and in an effort to get...

Watch the QuakeCon Virtual Reality Keynotes Here

At QuakeCon this week there were two keynotes that are relevant to the VR world. These presentations were streamed live, but if you missed them  they're now available in their recorded form. First is John Carmack's keynote which isn't 100%...

Oculus Rift Kickstarter Watch: Palmer Luckey Spotted With Valve’s Gabe Newell and Michael Abrash

If you needed any convincing that Valve is serious about the Oculus Rift, check this photo for some evidence. Pictured left to right is Michael Abrash, Valve's VR/AR researcher, Palmer Luckey, the brains behind the forthcoming Oculus Rift HMD,...

Project Holodeck Seeks to Create a Low Cost Full-motion VR Gaming Environment with the Help of...

A team of 25 members is working at the University of Southern California to create a full-motion virtual reality gaming environment, they're calling it Project Holodeck. By 'full-motion' I mean that the playspace allows the user to actually walk...

Here’s CliffyB With an Oculus Rift Prototype (and other updates)

Need proof the Palmer Luckey (AKA PalmerTech) wasn't teasing when he said he was working on the Oculus Rift HMD with some big names in the game industry? Here's Cliff Bleszinski (AKA CliffyB), checking out a prototype of the Oculus...

Oculus Rift 2.0, 1080p+ High FoV HMD / VR Headset by 2013 Under $1000?

Much has happened since the Oculus Rift Head Mounted Display / VR headset started picking up steam in May. Palmer Luckey has been teasing that he was in discussion with some big names in gaming, and today he's ready...

Oculus Rift Kickstarter Coming July 19th, Even Cheaper Than Before

Finally an update on the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. The head mounted display that's been... er... turning heads... has been teasing us with an upcoming Kickstarter campaign. The original plan was for it to go live in the middle of...

The Latest on Google Glass: Early Technical Details, Pre-order Units Made Available to I/O Attendees for...

Yesterday I showed you Google's incredible live Glass demo where they took Project Glass on a skydiving adventure. Today I want to compile all of the Project Glass info that came out of Google I/O 2012 in one place....

Google Goes Skydiving with Glass, Live [video]

Since Google's announcement of Project Glass, the company has remained quite silent on their augmented reality glasses project. We saw Project Glass in an interview with Charlie Rose back in April, but that was nothing compared to Google's latest...

Oculus Rift Units to Arrive Earlier than Planned, “Really Big Names in the Game Industry” Getting...

The VR community seems to be holding its collective breath to see what impact the Oculus Rift head mounted display will have on the future of virtual reality gaming. Patiently folks are waiting for the Kickstarter funding round to start...

Condition One Working on a Standard Way to Shoot and Embed Immersive 180 Degree Video, Content...

Condition One aims to achieve a standardized way of capturing and displaying immersive 180 degree video. The company is a startup founded by noted photographer Danfung Dennis. Currently the product takes the form of an iPad app in which the...
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