How Virtual Reality Can Teach You to Fly

Probably since the first time humans laid eyes on flying creatures we've wished we could fly ourselves. With apparent ease, birds, insects, and even some mammals take to the sky. The mere idea of flying has inspired song, art, and plenty...

Oculus Rift Creator Builds 120 and 270 Degree FoV HMD Prototypes

Palmer Luckey has been a virtual reality junkie since before the Oculus Rift. He claims to have the largest private collection of head mounted displays in the world, totaling some 43 units. And as the Rift has shown us, Luckey doesn't just...

Valve Hiring for Hardware Position (possibly VR related), Oculus LLC Lists 6 Job Opportunities

Valve, the beloved makers of the Steam digital game distribution service and a number of famous games like Half-Life 2, Portal, TF2, and more, has never made any hardware products. New broke last week that they were looking to...

Silicon Micro Display Resumes ST1080 HMD Production After Hurricane Closed Factory

Last week Silicon Micro Display made an announcement on their blog that the company's South Korean factory lost power due to a hurricane and was rendered in-operable. Now the company has announced that utilities have been restored to the...

Oculus Rift News Bits: Kickstarter Ends at $2.4 Million, Two New Games Pledge Support for Rift, and More

The Oculus Rift Kickstarter officially ended last Saturday. Reeling in an impressive $2,437,429, the campaing achieved a whopping 947% of its original 250k goal and secured the #6 position of top grossing Kickstarters of all time. Last week, Adhesive...

Sony Quietly Announces “All New” HMZ-T2 HMD, Reduces Weight by 20% [Gallery, Specs]

Sony has quietly announced a refreshed version of their HMZ-T1 head mounted display. The HMZ-T2 reduces weight by 20% which is good given that weight was one of the top issues with the original. The press release making the announcement calls...

Is This The Destiny of AR? 2 Visions of an Augmented Reality Future [videos]

I'd like to present two excellent AR concept videos which give a little glimpse into our world, not too far into the future, where AR is an integral part of life. Wearable computing and augmented reality are almost inevitable, but...

Experience Augmented Reality Now on Your iPhone or Android Phone for Free with Aurasma

Aurasma is a free augmented reality app that runs on iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), and Android. Using your phone's camera and other sensors, the app projects digital scenes onto the real world through your device's viewfinder. Aurasma...

PCGamer Goes Hands-on With the Oculus Rift in Video: “Everything You’ve Heard is True”

PCGamer's Owen Hill met with Palmer Luckey and some folks from Oculus to try out the Rift at Gamescom. After using it, he opines "The Oculus Rift is the most exciting peripheral I’ve ever used. This is the virtual...

Oculus Rift News Bits: Kickstarter Passes $2 Million, Palmer Luckey AMAA Today, Oculus Office in South Korea, and More!

With 3 days left, the Oculus Rift Kickstarter has passed the $2 million funding threshold. This is a huge landmark for the campaign which originally sought to raise $250 thousand in funding. Sitting pretty at 803% of its funding...