Why Nintendo hasn't embraced this is completely beyond me. Johnny Chung Lee, a human-computer interaction researcher, developed an ingenious head tracking system that works with the Wii -- a system which has an install base of more than 80...

Don't have $799 to drop on Sony's upcoming HMZ-T1 head mounted display? Back in 2009 Recombu.com made this video showing how you can make a cheap DIY display out of nothing but plastic goggles, cardboard, and an Android phone: Recombu...

Sony is launching a head mounted display (HMD) come 11/11, and it's likely to be one of the highest quality and most consumer-available HMDs to date. The HMD, for which Sony is already taking pre-orders, will go on retail for...

An omni-directional treadmill is just like your traditional gym treadmill, except instead of only being able to go forward, you can move in any direction. There are a number of ways to achieve such omni-directional locomotion, but the resulting...

Quantum 3D says that "infantry training simulation is here today", and they've got a video showing how they use virtual reality to help soldiers train for the battlefield. Tell me parts of this don't play like a video game...

Today begins my journey cataloging the Road to Virtual Reality. I actually started a very similar blog 2 or 3 years ago, but it quickly faded away because we were still far from anything that could be considered mainstream...