VR Headset
Varjo Launches VR-1 with Retina-quality Fixed-foveated Display & Eye-tracking, Priced at $6,000
Varjo today announced the launch of its VR-1 headset. Priced at $6,000, the headset aims to deliver a huge jump in effective resolution with a novel fixed-foveated display that offers unprecedented retina-resolution fidelity at the center of the field...
Cloudhead Games Teases Mystery VR Headset in Censored Image
Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger recently tweeted what appears to be an unreleased VR headset and motion controllers using SteamVR 2.0 tracking basestations.
Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype...
Russian Startup DEUS Reveals OpenVR-compatible Headset ‘Odin Pre’
The Moscow-based VR headset manufacturer DEUS announced the latest version of their Odin VR headset that incorporates support for SteamVR content and higher resolution LCD displays than Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
Update (11:00 AM ET): Deus tells us that the Horus...
VRgineers Reveals Improved ‘XTAL’ Professional Headset with Wider FOV
VRgineers, a Czech Republic-based startup building enterprise VR headsets, today announced a more advanced version of their wide field of view (FOV) professional headset XTAL. The new version, which features a wider FOV thanks to a new pair of...
Varjo’s ‘Bionic Display’ Headset is a Breathtaking Preview of VR’s Future
More resolution in VR isn't just 'nice', it's a major contributor to immersion. 'Retina-resolution' displays, those which match the visual limit of the human eye, are the ultimate destiny of VR headsets but it'll be years yet before they're...
Lemnis Demonstrates Latest Varifocal Lens Tech in New VR Headset Prototype
Eye-tracking is an important technology that many would consider a 'must have' for the next generation of VR headsets, although that's just one step towards resolving a long-standing issue in VR that prevents users from seeing the virtual world...
Report: Acer Could Sell or Disband StarVR Soon
StarVR Corporation, an Acer and Starbreeze partnership behind the wide field of view (FOV) VR headset StarVR One, could be on the ropes after its delisting from the Taipei stock exchange earlier this month.
Digitimes reports that Acer, a 63 percent...
$1,550 Vive Pro McLaren Edition Further Confuses Headset’s Positioning
HTC today launched the Vive Pro McLaren Edition, which includes a limited edition Vive Pro with 2.0 peripherals and colored accents, a themed box, a copy of racing sim rFactor 2 McLaren Edition, and the McLaren Garage VR Experience. Priced...
Samsung Holiday Deal Slashes New Odyssey+ to Just $300
Samsung Odyssey+ is the company's latest VR headset, and while it launched just a few weeks ago for $500, the Korean tech giant is throwing it on sale this Black Friday at a 40% discount.
Update (November 19th, 2018): The...
Report: New Valve VR Headset Appears in Leaked Images
When it comes Valve, there's no telling what's going on behind their Bellevue, Washington doors. As one of the most reclusive developers of both games and hardware, that goes doubly so for its efforts in VR. Now, reported images...
Shadow VR is the Latest of 15 Hardware Partners to Adopt HTC’s Vive Wave Platform
Shadow Creator, a Shanghai-based headset manufacturer, today announced their upcoming headset Shadow VR will be the newest hardware partner to adopt HTC's Vive Wave platform. The standalone VR headset, which supports six degrees of freedom (6DOF) for both headset...
Lenovo Black Friday Sale to Bring $100 Discount to Both Mirage Solo VR Headset & VR180...
Lenovo Mirage Solo is getting its first big price cut since it launched for $400 earlier this summer.
Revealed in Lenovo's Black Friday sale catalog, both the Mirage Solo headset and Mirage 180 Camera are getting slashed by $100 a...
Report: Oculus is Planning a Modest Upgrade to Rift, Releasing Early as Next Year
Oculus co-founder and Facebook's head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. Now, a new report maintains the company is heading in a different direction with...
Sony Licenses PSVR Headset Design to Lenovo for New Mirage Solo
Sony and Lenovo announced they've signed a two-year patent license agreement that will allow Lenovo to base a future VR headset off the PSVR industrial design.
Lenovo says the PSVR design will be used in the making of a new...
Samsung Odyssey+ Side-by-side Shows Subtle Redesign, Hopeful Ergonomic Improvements
The standout feature for Samsung's new Odyssey+ headset is its so-called "anti-SDE" display, but beyond that it appears that the headset has actually seen minor adjustments in a handful of areas. With the first Odyssey headset having poor ergonomics,...



















