Minecraft Reality AR App Let’s Players Import Creations Into the Real World
Minecraft Reality is an AR app created by 13th Lab in Conjunction with Minecraft developer Mojang. The app, which is currently only available for iOS devices, allows users to place Minecraft creations in the real world as augmented reality...
What is Virtual Reality?
This sounds like a simple question, but it is one that I've been meaning to discuss. Without a foundation, everything we talk about on this site is more or less floating somewhere in abstract space. To ground the subject,...
Google Glass New York Fashion Week Gallery
In the world of technology reporting, it's rare to have a good excuse to stare at beautiful women. Let's indulge while we have the opportunity -- as I noted earlier, Google Glass walked the runway in September during New...
Google Glass News Bits: Panoramic Photo Mode, Models Wear Glass on the Runway
This one slipped under my radar but I think it's worth a mention. Back in September, Spencer Ante of the Wall Street Journal spoke with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and got a brief exclusive preview of Google Glass (sometimes...
Oculus Rift Developer Kit Delayed Until March; New Prototype Photos, Larger Screen
Not the best news for backers of the Oculus Rift Kickstarter this morning -- Oculus Inc. has announced that shipment of the Oculus Rift developer kit has been delayed until March. The company also says that they're moving up...
TIME Names Google Glass Among ‘Best Inventions in 2012’… Doesn’t Launch Until 2014
TIME Magazine has named Google Glass as one of the 'Best Inventions of 2012' which is interesting because they also mention that the product isn't expected on the market until 2014....
Google Glass found itself among 26 other inventions on...
Android-powered Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses to Compete with Google Glass in 2013
Vuzix has just introduced the M100 Smart Glasses. The M100 is an unobtrusive head mounted display, much like Google Glass, which Vuzix hopes will be used as a hands-free smartphone display and for augmented reality applications. In addition to...
Cave Automatic Virtual Environment Used in a Willow Music Video
After talking about Cave Augmented Virtual Environments the other day, reader Yossi pointed out that the Belgium band Willow recently utilized a CAVE in a music video for their song Sweater. The band put together a very neat sequence using the VR platform...
This is What it Looks Like Inside of a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment [video]
While inexpensive head mounted displays and virtual reality locomotion platforms promise to bring VR to the mainstream in the near future, you might be surprised to find that extremely immersive and interactive virtual reality environments already exist today. We talked about VIRTSIM...
Oculus Rift News Bits: Palmer Keynotes Evolve, Early 3D Rift Model, First Image of Tracker, and more
Once again it's time for an update on the latest Oculus Rift news. First of all, Oculus LLC is now Oculus Inc., according to the company's official website. This morning they've dropped an update to Kickstarter backers which includes...
