A Short But Surprisingly Touching Story About the Possibilities of Virtual Reality
I have to say that this brief story, just 205 words long, might be on of the most concise emotional stories I've ever read. In so few words, the author has managed to touch on the disruptive potential of...
Correction: Apple CEO Tim Cook Did Not Visit Valve
A quick correction to a story I posted the other day about Valve working on wearable computer R&D. The tail end of that story included a snippet about reports of Apple CEO Tim Cook visiting the esteemed game developer....
Innovega Working on Multi-focal Contacts to Compliment AR Eyewear and HMDs, Available by 2014 Says CEO
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...
Valve, Developer of Half-Life 2 and Steam, Internally Researching Augmented Reality
Big news for the VR world fresh from of one of the biggest names in gaming. In a post to his Valve-hosted blog, employee Michael Abrash says that since joining Valve hes begun working on augmented reality / wearable computer research....
Two Great Google Glass Parody Videos
Last week Google announced it's Project Glass concept, a head mounted display and AR software aimed toward making augmented reality a practicality for mainstream use. With a big announcement such as that, it didn't take long for the parody videos to...
Google Announces Project Glass, Wants to Bring Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing to the Masses [video]
Augmented reality just got a huge boost today thanks to Google who announced an experimental project that they're calling 'Glass'. Project Glass has apparently been in the works at Google (Google's experimental project group) for some time now. The...
Virtual Reality Needs to Take off Before It Gets Grounded in a Niche Market
Virtual Reality is most likely an inevitable evolution in human-computer interaction—in the long term, anyway. But in the next 10 years, there's a major risk of VR falling to the wayside as a novelty or an enthusiasts-only market. The closest analog...
Augmented Reality Hasn’t Proven Itself… Yet.
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...
ST1080 Supported 3D Formats Revealed; International Pre-orders Now Available
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 @...
Carl Zeiss Cinemizer HMD Hands-on Video — Pre-ordering Now [update]
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...