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AR Glasses Rumoured From Intel

by Isaac Oburu

lntel is reportedly developing a pair of augmented reality smart glasses, which may be available for the public to see at the company’s Intel Developer Forum. The show will be in San Francisco in …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 29

by Tom Allen

Andromium‘s Superbook (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19) – the laptop ‘shell’ powered by a smartphone – is now live on Kickstarter. Prices start at $85. It was funded within 10 minutes, …

Samsung Developing Standalone Headset

by Isaac Oburu

According to reports, Samsung confirmed that a new standalone VR headset is being developed at its developer conference, and a new trademark filing in Korea may indicate its name. According to Galaxy Club, the …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 29

SMI Joins HTC

by Isaac Oburu

SensoMotoric Instruments has unveiled a developer kit for the HTC Vive headset. The head mounted display (HMD) has been modified with the addition of small cameras and IR light sources, to enable eye tracking …

OSVR Upgrades Dev Kit Display

by Tom Allen

Image: The VergeOSVR (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield) is now taking pre-orders for its second modular dev kit, HDK 2. The kit will begin to be shipped on the 29th July and prices start at …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Google Scraps Headset – Or Does It?

by Tom Allen

Sources speaking to Recode have said that Google has cancelled the development of a standalone VR headset. The company declined to comment on the move, but Recode speculates that the decision comes from Google’s …

Tags:Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Deepoon Claims First Standalone Headset

by Tom Allen

A Chinese company called Deepoon has produced a VR headset that combines all of the elements – including the display and processors – into a single unit. VR headsets today are all, effectively, companion …

eMagin Patents Dual AR/VR HMD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

eMagin Corporation is a company that specializes in the development, design and manufacturing of OLED on silicon microdisplays that target the Head Mounted Display (HMD) market. The main target market for these devices is …

Meet the Infinitus Prime tVR HMD

by Arthur Berman

Infinitus Global has just debuted a new virtual reality headset called the Infinitus Prime tVR. It is not a consumer product. Rather, the primary customers targeted by the company for this HMD are enterprise …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Retailers in Favour for VR

by Tom Allen

A survey by Context has shown that VR is a category ‘for retailers to lose’, in Europe. The survey showed that most consumers (26.3%) and gamers (23.2%) would prefer to buy VR HMDs at …

HTC Closes in on 80,000 Units

by Tom Allen

SteamSpy, Valve’s data collection service which collects data from every Steam user, has been used to estimate the HTC Vive’s user base. Each Vive is supplied with a game called Job Simulator, which provides …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 26

by Tom Allen

AMD has launched its RX 480 graphics card, designed to make VR more affordable (AMD Dramatically Lowers VR Cost). Prices start at $250. Everdisplay’s 1.4″ AMOLED display at CES Asia. Photo: Chris ChinnockThe small …