The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather...
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Magic Leap CEO: ‘We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty cool’
Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious fight field display technology; and as a curious onlooker, getting a peek of the $4.5 billion startup‘s tech will...
Brain-Controlled VR Experiences: Challenges & Potentials
When I attended the Experiential Technology Conference in May 2016, I heard from a number of commercial off-the-shelf brain-control interface manufacturers that their systems would not natively work with VR headsets because there are some critical portions on the head that are occluded by VR headset straps. Companies like Mindmaze VR are building in integrated...
Noitom’s Hi5 VR Gloves Track Your Fingers Powered by Vive’s Tracking Puck
Noitom have unveiled their VR gloves which aim to put your hands and fingers into virtual reality with motion tracking provided courtesy of HTC’s recently launched Vive Tracker accessory. We’ve now got a number of contenders for the accolade of ‘first VR glove to live up to the sci-fi hype’, all with slightly different approaches...
‘vTime’ Becomes Most Widely-Available Social VR Platform
With social VR platform vTime’s recent launch on Google Daydream, the UK-based company Starship Group can proudly say they’ve created the most-widely available social VR platform in the world. Used by people in 195 countries, vTime is both free and cross-compatible with Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, iPhone and now Google Daydream. vTime is organized...
Lumus Showed Off New AR Glasses With 55-Degree Field Of View
Lumus, an Israeli startup that just raised a $45 million funding round, is unveiling new augmented reality displays for smartglasses that offer a wider field of view. The company showed the Maximus prototype for AR glasses with a 55-degree field of view at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week....
Indulge Your Sense Of Smell With An ‘Old Timber And Blood’ Scented ‘Resident Evil 7’ 4D VR Candle
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 —...
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...