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After months of skepticism, I finally tried on a virtual reality headset that used a mobile phone as a display. I was shocked to find it worked really, really well. Read more »
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After months of skepticism, I finally tried on a virtual reality headset that used a mobile phone as a display. I was shocked to find it worked really, really well. Read more »
The headset uses a mobile phone as its screen. In exchange for Oculus’ software, Samsung will give the Facebook-owned company early access to its next generation screen, according to Engadget. Read more »
The German company has come up with a way to turn anything into a user interface, through a combination of existing augmented reality techniques and thermal imaging. Read more »
Osmo is combining simple but elegant hardware with clever computer vision technology to turn Tangram shapes, letter cards and everyday objects into iPad game controllers. Read more »
Nine startups pitched everything from a gesture-controlled cousin to Siri to a website for animating images at the first AXLR8R demo day in San Francisco. Read more »
The tablet is a hybrid device occupying the space between laptop and smartphone, but within that narrow gap it has the potential to outperform its competition — especially in the enterprise. Read more »
The glasses have a front-facing camera and motion tracking sensors, but they still rely on a handheld trackpad for interacting with the virtual world. Read more »
The augmented reality startup is thinking about making it easier for individuals to tune headsets to their own vision. Another patent would allow Atheer’s glasses to prevent the copying of copyrighted… Read more »
The company makes a system that’s in many ways similar to Google Glass, but used to help blind people interpret the world around them. The investment will most likely feed back… Read more »
Layar, one of the first companies to bring augmented reality to mobile browsers, is now on Google Glass. The beta app scans print content, geo-layer, QR codes and even movie posters… Read more »