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StarVR More Than Doubles Oculus FoV

by Tom Allen

Starbreeze Studios, a Swedish games studio, has decided to cut out the middle man and develop its own VR headset, under the name ‘StarVR’. Introduced at E3, the headset offers an extremely wide field …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Oculus Redesigns Rift, Introduces Gesture Controls

by Tom Allen

After many years, Oculus VR has revealed the final design of its consumer headset – set to be released in Q1’16. As well as the Rift headset, Oculus showed off circular controllers that will …

Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation (WF8)

by Phillip Wright

Ernesto Martinez, Head of Wearable Computing at Kopin, delivered a talk entitled Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference at SID Display Week. The speaker noted that Kopin, the venerable microdisplay …

Vuzix Excited by HMD Opportunity (IC11)

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix, which we have covered a lot in recent months. Vuzix started in 1997 and has been a partner for Kopin for a long …

Kopin Positive on New Applications (IC10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr John Fan is CEO of Kopin, which makes microdisplays. Fan said that the company is looking strongly at going into wearables. He said that the headset is the most important wearable device, but …

Nvidia Patent Shows HMD With Own GPU

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeNvidia has filed a patent for a VR headset, with its own CPU, GPU and storage built in. The unit will use six cameras – two forward, two down and two to …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Patents| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Fraunhofer’s Discrete Glasses Compensate for Vision Defects

by Tom Allen

A team at Fraunhofer IOF have developed a way to produce AR glasses in a smaller, less prominent form factor. These glasses – to be shown at Laser World of Photonics in Munich (22nd …

HP Chooses Vuzix

by Tom Allen

Vuzix’s M100 smart glasses are being used in HP’s new Visual Remote Guidance Solution. VRG can be used for live collaboration between employees and customers, for voice, video and content sharing. A video can …

Google is Committed to Cardboard. Really.

by Tom Allen

Google Cardboard (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26) was presumed to be a simple marketing stunt. Google, however, appears to be taking the device seriously – enough that the company has released a second …

Tags:Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23| Wearables

Dlodlo’s 120g VR Headset Ready for Sale

by Tom Allen

Tongue-twistingly-named Dlodlo, of China, has announced a pair of VR glasses weighing 120g – said to be four times lighter than competitors’ models. The glasses have the ‘look and fit’ of sunglasses. The display …

Tags:China| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Oculus Ignores Laptops, Apple Users

by Tom Allen

Planning to buy the Oculus Rift? Start upgrading your PC. Oculus VR has released the requirements for the headset, which will need to be tethered to a computer to work. Owners will need an …

eMagin Shows OLED HMD

by Tom Allen

We learned last year that eMagin was building a VR head-mounted display, using its own 2k x 2k OLED microdisplay (eMagin Building High-Res OLED HMD). Development has now been completed and the company has …