This industry never ceases to amaze. I can say that during CES week I honestly never expected to learn about a scented candle that was designed to smell like an old, musty timber wood and blood cocktail. Refrigerators with touch screens, talking trashcans, and robots that watch your kids sure — that’s a given —...
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Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
FOVE Begins Shipping $599 Eye-Tracking Headset this Month
Eye-tracking is oft called the ‘next generation technology’ for VR headsets—lest we forget FOVE, the creators of the world’s first commercially available eye-tracking VR headset, the aptly named FOVE 0. The company has recently announced that they’ll begin shipping FOVE 0 around the world starting January 2017. Born from a successful Kickstarter campaign back in...
The Taclim VR Boots Want You To Kick The Future In The Face
You hear that? At first you might think that’s the sound of Iron Man stomping towards you, ready to kill you with his wit and metal fists — but it’s not. That’s actually the sound of someone clumsily tripping over themselves and nearly falling over while wearing the Taclim VR boots from Cerevo at CES...
This HoloLamp Projector Lets You See AR Holograms Without Using Glasses
HoloLamp debuted its augmented reality projector system this week at CES 2017, the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The projector makes it possible for augmented reality to interact with real objects, and no special glasses or smartphone are required to see its animated images. The result looks a lot like that scene in Star Wars...
Pico Bumps the Resolution in Newly Revealed Version of Mobile VR Headset
Pico Technology, a China-based VR hardware company, today unveiled the latest iteration of their mobile VR headset, the Pico Neo CV. Pico hasn’t published any price information yet, but has stated it will launch in the the US later this year. Like its predecessor the Neo DK (developer kit), the headset features an all-in-one design based around...
Hands-on: HTC’s New Vive Tracker Makes VR More Immersive With Specialized Accessories
The Vive accessory market is about to get a huge boost thanks to the newly announced HTC Vive Tracker. Gaming, training, and more benefit from the enhanced immersion that comes from wielding “real” tools, weapons, and instruments. Today I was a sniper, a firefighter, and a professional baseball player, all thanks to VR. I’ve actually done...
Intel Says Project Alloy VR/AR Headsets Are Coming in Q4 2017
Intel revealed at their CES 2017 press conference that Project Alloy, their standalone mixed reality headset and reference platform, would be productized “by” Q4 2017 in partnership with major OEMs. Intel also emphasized that they would partner with anyone who wants to manufacture a Project Alloy headset, as they want it to be an open...
Project Alloy Debuts Multiplayer Merged Reality Gaming, Shipping in Q4 2017
The Intel press conference at CES 2017 was almost entirely about mixed reality technologies. A large portion of the show asked the audience to literally be inside VR viewing demos in real-time, including a live 360 sports broadcast. But most of this was using existing technology, such as the Oculus Rift, to show off content rather...
Intel demos untethered Project Alloy virtual reality multiplayer experience
Intel showed off what the next generation of virtual reality will look like today with Project Alloy, during the company’s press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. Project Alloy is work in development that captures the notion that VR should be wireless, with all of the computing...
Sony sells 6.2 million PlayStation 4s during holiday season
Sony said that it sold 6.2 million PlayStation 4 video game consoles to consumers during the holidays on a worldwide basis. Sony also said that it sold more than 50.4 million units of software (games and Blu-ray movies) during the holidays. And the company’s big exclusive, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, has now sold through...