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 $1500

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 Involved!

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 for the Oculus Rift?

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...

Virtual Reality and Oculus Rift E3 2012 Interview with John Carmack [video]

One of the reasons why I'm so excited about the Oculus Rift is that John Carmack, founder and technical director of Id Software, is demoing the unit to people within the gaming industry and is building full support for it...

Early Oculus Rift Specifications and Official Site, Confirms $500 Target

Right now the Oculus Rift project is at the center of my attention. If you haven't read up on it, see here. In short, I'm hoping that this is the first major step in bringing virtual reality to mainstream gaming....

Oculus Rift HMD Kickstarter to Begin no Later than June 14th

I'm away from a full blown computer this weekend, so please excuse the brevity of this post. I'm writing from my phone because I wanted to share some brief but exciting information regarding the Oculus Rift that I wrote...

Oculus Rift is an HMD with an Immersive 90-degree FoV, to Be Funded by Kickstater [video]

While Sony's HMZ-T1 and Silicon Micro Display's ST1080 have made a major splash in the world of head mounted displays by bringing high resolution and (relatively) low cost products to market, a key issue still remains -- field of...

Another ST1080 User Review Hits the Web, Silicon Micro Display Opens a Forum

I spoke with Silicon Micro Display recently and they tell me that the scarcity of initial units has prevented them from getting the ST1080 out to major outlets for review just yet. That's why we've thus far only seen user-impressions of...