ST1080 Head Mounted Display Starts Shipping to Pre-order Customers Today
A quick note here -- it's been a long time coming, but Silicon Micro Display begins shipping the ST1080 1080p HMD to pre-order customers today! Paul Jin, SMD CEO, says that pre-order customers can expect a confirmation email and...
Google Glass Project Leader Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Wears a Glass Prototype to the Interview
Sebastian Thrun, who is one of the project leads for Google's Project Glass, sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose and chats about the augmented reality project, among other things. Thrun brought a Project Glass prototype with him...
Augmented Reality Sandbox is One of the Coolest Uses of AR I’ve Seen Thus Far [video]
Just a few weeks ago I wrote that augmented reality (AR) had yet to prove itself. It's a neat idea, and we've seen so many concepts that look great in theory but have yet to be realized, or the...
ST1080 HMD Update: Shipping Expected to Start Second Week in May, Light Blocker Detailed
Silicon Micro Display's 1080p head mounted display (HMD), the ST1080, will soon be reaching reaching pre-order customers, according to the company. Additionally, Silicon Micro Display has revealed the final design for the 'light blocker' which is designed to reduce...
Scientific Paper Details a Virtual Reality Environment Used in the Lab for Insect Experiments [video]
Think virtual reality is only for humans? Think again. Researchers are increasingly turning to virtual reality to perform tests that would otherwise be impossible by traditional means. Case in point: recently Mikko Vähäsöyrinki, a physicist at the University of Oulu...
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...
