VR, AR, and AI in our Virtual Future
The well-known secrecy in Cupertino ensures we’ll never have the full picture of Apple’s AR headset until it’s released. We always thought Apple would have an augmented reality device by 2020, but it now appears that …
After close to a year, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 second-gen mixed reality headset is finally out. It was introduced back in February 2019 art Mobile World Congress, and the intervening delay has brought few surprises. There’s the …
No surprise that we’re huge fans of The Matrix around here. And we’re waiting impatiently for the next version (which goes into production next year). In the meantime, we’ll focus on Microsoft’s DreamWalker project, a fascinating …
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Sandbox VR is one of the latest players on the location-based VR scene. And we get the idea behind it – it’s easy to grasp when you’re living in cramped spaces in New York City. But …
Read more Sandbox VR Raises Millions from A-List Celebs but can it Succeed?
So much for Google’s Daydream VR platform. Initially a promising development in mobile VR, Google has officially killed it off. The new Pixel 4 phones won’t support it, they’ve stopped selling Daydream View headsets, and they …
Predictions have been all over the place for the arrival of Apple’s AR Glasses. The latest news from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo sees them arriving in 2020, which matches our assessment. As with the introduction of the …
A brain-computer interface for AR? It could happen sooner than you think. The Verge’s Casey Newton got hold of a leaked audio transcript of internal meetings at Facebook where the question came up. In one section, …
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Ready for an ultrathin layer of wearable skin? It may be precisely what we need for haptic feedback in our virtual experiences. There’s several haptic solutions coming to the market, from full-body suits to HMD attachments that …
As expected, there were no major hardware releases at Oculus Connect 6. But we didn’t lack for VR news. The major announcement was that hand tracking will come to the Oculus Quest headset. We can finally …
The latest Apple AR patent filing reveals fascinating details for their future AR Glasses. Of course, patents don’t always see the light of day, and this is only one of many that they’ve filed. But if …
Read more Apple AR Patent Reveals Groundbreaking Display Developments
We’ll be out in California next week for the Oculus Connect 6 conference on September 25-26. With the speculation on Facebook’s AR initiatives and the next steps for the Quest standalone HMD, it promises to be …