Hands-on With Sony’s HMZ-T2 ‘Prototype SR’ at the Tokyo Game Show
Last week news broke that Sony would be demonstrating an augmented reality 'Prototype SR' head mounted display at the Tokyo Game Show. This HMD is based on the new HMZ-T2 which Sony announced at the beginning of the month....
Project Holodeck Update: Razer Now Official Sponsor, The Team Tests the Oculus Rift
Exciting info for the team of Project Holodeck, Razer is now an official sponsor. The company, which was founded in 1998 and manufacturers PC peripherals for hardcore gamers, will supply the Holodeck team with hardware pertinent to the project and...
Valve Denies Working on Its Own Head Mounted Display for Virtual Reality Games Despite Internal Research
It's no secret that Valve is internally researching virtual reality. Michael Abrash is publicly known to be Valve's virtual reality and augmented reality researcher. Valve recently put out a job posting for an industrial designer noting that the company...
Sony to Show off HMZ-T2 HMD Prototype with Head Tracking and Pass-through AR [Video]
Sony appears to be finally experimenting with augmented reality and virtual reality on their HMD line. The company has traditionally marketed their HMZ-T1 and HMZ-T2 head mounted displays as a "personal 3D viewer" rather than anything to do with...
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...
