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John Lewis Gets Into VR Game

by Tom Allen

John Lewis is currently showing a VR experience at its Oxford Street store in London. The company is stocking the Freefly VR headset exclusively for the next four weeks, and is demonstrating it to …

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

BEMR: A New Reality for the Future Force

by Isaac Oburu

New virtual-reality capabilities emerging at the Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality—or BEMR—Lab, in San Diego, California, will make dramatic impacts across the Navy and Marine Corps, including advancements in affordable virtual training, data assessment, …

Tags:USA| Virtual Reality

Vuzix Rolls-Out Shipments of iWear Video Headphones to Consumers

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, announced that it has begun shipping its iWear Video Headphones to consumers. The multi-platform iWear …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vuzix

Displays Remain Vital for Training and Simulation

by Chris Chinnock

I have just returned from the I/ITSEC 2015 trade show, North America’s big event for training and simulation. As expected, solutions continue to become more complex and more realistic, and displays play a key …

New Developments at I/ITSEC 2015

by Tom Allen

Held at the start of December in Orlando, Florida, I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) 2015 is the world’s largest modelling, simulation and training event. Attendees come from the education, retail, military and …

TrendForce Forecasts VR Market Value to Hit US$70 Billion in 2020 as Innovative Apps Enrich This Industry

by Isaac Oburu

Consumers’ relentless pursuit for richer audiovisual experience has propelled the popularity of virtual reality (VR) devices and drawn in more companies to invest in this market. Furthermore, the competition among the increasing number of …

Tags:Market Data| Virtual Reality

Prepare for Battle: Gear Up to Tackle eSports

by Tom Allen

My attention was caught recently by a whitepaper from Juniper Research, titled ‘eSports – Gamers’ New MVP?‘, which goes into detail to examine today’s fast-growing ‘electronic sports’ scene. These are games played competitively on …

Tags:Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 49

General Dynamics Focuses on Fire Fighting VR Application

by Chris Chinnock

Last year at I/ITSEC, General Dynamic was just starting to develop a VR application to help with fire fighter training, especially in military and commercial applications. This year, they showed the progress they have …

Sensics Focuses on OSVR

by Chris Chinnock

HMD developer Sensics was at I/ITSEC to show off its high performance HMD but also to facilitate discussions about OSVR – their joint venture with game developer, Razor. OSVR stands for Open Source Virtual …

Oculus Demos Pre-Production Rift HMD

by Chris Chinnock

Oculus was at I/ITSEC to show offs the new GearVR from Samsung (with support from Oculus) and the new Rift headset that will be launched by Oculus in Q1’16. The exact date has not …

SA Photonics Shows Three New HMDs

by Chris Chinnock

SA Photonics is one of the suppliers of very high quality head mounted displays – with monocular and binocular, see through and occlusive types. They offer some of the best image quality using OLEDs …