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Sulon Uses OLED for Wireless HMD

by Tom Allen

AMD introduced a prototype of Sulon’s wireless HMD (Sulon Shows Cortex AR/VR Headset) at a private event at the Game Developers Conference last month, which we were alerted to be our friend Jon Peddie. …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Could PS VR be Made PC Compatible?

by Tom Allen

There is a “possibility” that Sony will make its Playstation VR headset compatible with PCs, not just the Playstation 4 console. The news comes from a Nikkei interview with Sony EVP Masayasu Ito, translated …

Rift – Finally – Reaches Customers

by Tom Allen

It’s been a long wait – four years since the Kickstarter campaign began! – but the Oculus Rift headset is finally being shipped. Those customers who were able to pre-order the consumer model of …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Wearables Battle the Hype Cycle at WTS 2016

by Tom Allen

This was our first year attending the Wearable Technology Show in London’s ExCel Centre, which has been running since 2014. Already, the event is beginning to branch out to cover more areas, such as …

VR Takes Over GDC 2016

by Tom Allen

The Game Developers’ Conference took place in San Francisco this month. With the advances in virtual reality, this event is becoming ever more relevant to display makers. AMD estimates that it has an 83% …

HTC Surprises with Vive Price

by Tom Allen

HTC had two stands, located opposite from one another: one was dedicated to the Vive VR headset (and was very busy for all four days of the show), while the other, larger stand held …

Samsung Chooses VR, Cameras and Gaming

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s launch event for its next phone, the Galaxy S7, was unusual. The stage was located in the middle of the room, with the press conference conducted ‘in the round’. It meant that the …

LG Differentiates With Friends

by Tom Allen

LG ran its launch event for the new flagship phone, the G5, at the Sant Jordi Club on a hill overlooking Barcelona. Having arrived in plenty of time, we managed to secure a seat …

Sports Illustrated Goes Virtual

by Tom Allen

Quad/Graphics has included a VR viewer (the Quad Virtual Reality Viewer, or QVR) in about 500,000 select copies of the 2016 Sportswear Illustrated swimsuit issue. The viewer can be used to watch the magazine’s …

Sony’s VR HMD Delayed

by Tom Allen

Paul Raines, CEO of Gamestop, has told Fox Business that Sony’s Playstation VR headset will not be launched in early 2016, as previously stated. Instead, he said that his chain would launch the device …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 06

TeraGlass: A Fully Customizable Head Mounted Display (HMD) Solution With 3D Viewing Capabilities That is Wearable and Handsfree

by Isaac Oburu

Teracle, Inc. was founded to create a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to access quality education no matter what his or her socioeconomic status is. Our mission is to use the latest …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Wearables

WSJ: Google Working on Standalone VR

by Tom Allen

Google is continuing to work on virtual reality, undeterred by the withdrawal of its Google Glass product. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is developing an all-in-one headset that will operate without …

Tags:Google| Google Glass| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 06