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Oculus Rift Units to Arrive Earlier than Planned, "Really Big Names in the Game Industry" Getting Involved!5 comments

Ben Lang wrote 11 months ago: The VR community seems to be holding its collective breath to see what impact the Oculus Rift head m … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, VR Displays, DIY VR, Head Mounted Display, News, Virtual Reality, VR, HMD, head mounted display

Virtual Reality and Oculus Rift E3 2012 Interview with John Carmack [video]

Ben Lang wrote 11 months ago: One of the reasons why I’m so exciting about the Oculus Rift is that John Carmack, founder and … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, DIY VR, Head Mounted Display, News, Gaming, HMD, Virtual Reality Gaming, palmertech, palmer luckey

Early Oculus Rift Specifications and Official Site, Confirms $500 Target4 comments

Ben Lang wrote 11 months ago: Right now the Oculus Rift project is at the center of my attention. If you haven’t read up on … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, VR Displays, DIY VR, Head Mounted Display, News, Virtual Reality, VR, Gaming, HMD

Oculus Rift HMD Kickstarter to Begin no Later than June 14th3 comments

Ben Lang wrote 11 months ago: I’m away from a full blown computer this weekend, so please excuse the brevity of this post. I … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, VR Displays, DIY VR, Head Mounted Display, 3d, News, Virtual Reality, VR, HMD

Oculus Rift is an HMD with an Immersive 90-degree FoV, to Be Funded by Kickstater [video]13 comments

Ben Lang wrote 11 months ago: While Sony’s HMZ-T1 and Silicon Micro Display’s ST1080 have made a major splash in the w … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, VR Displays, DIY VR, Head Mounted Display, 3d, News, Virtual Reality, VR, Gaming

Leap is a Highly Accurate and Highly Affordable bit of Hand-tracking Hardware for Computer Interaction [video]2 comments

Ben Lang wrote 12 months ago: Thanks for a tip from Jeff Austin, I’m now looking at the Leap, an incredible — and incr … more →

Tags: News, technology, leap, Leap Motion, hand tracking, gesture control, HCI, human-computer ineraction

Leap is a Highly Accurate and Highly Affordable bit of Hand-tracking Hardware for Computer Interaction [video]2 comments

Ben Lang wrote 12 months ago: Thanks for a tip from Jeff Austin, I’m now looking at the Leap, an incredible — and incr … more →

Tags: News, technology, leap, Leap Motion, hand tracking, gesture control, HCI, human-computer ineraction

Scientific Paper Details a Virtual Reality Environment Used in the Lab for Insect Experiments [video]

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Think virtual reality is only for humans? Think again. Researchers are increasingly turning to virtu … more →

Tags: News, Virtual Reality, VR, Omni-Directional Treadmill, cockroach, Lab, experiment, virtual reality system, panoramic virtual reality

Innovega Working on Multi-focal Contacts to Compliment AR Eyewear and HMDs, Available by 2014 Says CEO

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Innovega is a Washington-based company that’s working on contact lenses that use filters to al … more →

Tags: Military Applications, Augmented Reality, Wearable computing, News, Innovega, innovega ioptik, innovega ioptik contacts, contact, contact lens

Valve, Developer of Half-Life 2 and Steam, Internally Researching Augmented Reality; Apple CEO Tim Cook Stops for a Visit

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Big news for the VR world fresh from of one of the biggest names in gaming. In a post to his Valve-h … more →

Tags: VR FUTURE, VR Gaming, Augmented Reality, Wearable computing, Virtual Reality, VR, Gaming, HMD, Human-computer interaction

Sony HMZ-T1 HMD + TrackIR 5 Camera = Headtracking Gameplay in World of Warcraft and Skyrim3 comments

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: It’s a shame that neither Sony’s HMZ-T1 or Silicon Micro Display’s ST1080 have int … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, Head Mounted Display, Head Tracking, HMD, head mounted display, hmd gaming, Dear Esther

Is This the Future of Augmented Reality Gaming?

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: One of my favorite YouTube directors, Freddie Wong happened to make a video that is quite relevant t … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, Augmented Reality, Arg, Augmented Reality, augmented reality gaming, environmental mapping

Battlefield 3 Virtual Reality Simulator Episode from The Gadget Show Now Available Online! [video]

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: As I posted the other week, The Gadget Show put together an awesome Battlefield 3 virtual reality si … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, Virtual Reality, Battlefield, battlefield 3, virtual reality simulator, The Gadget Show

Battlefield 3 Played in a Virtual Reality Simulator [video]3 comments

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Battlefield 3 is set to be one of the biggest games of the 2011 season thanks to its impressively li … more →

Tags: VR Gaming, VR Simulation, VR, Gaming, Battlefield, battlefield 3, simulator, Omni-Directional Treadmill

The World's Best Virtual Reality -- Your Brain on VR, and the Exciting World of Brain-Computer Interfacing

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: The abilities of the brain are absolutely amazing. Even before the idea of virtual reality was conce … more →

Tags: VR FUTURE, BCI, brain computer interface, Dreams

Augmented Reality Will Soon Be Convincingly Modifying Your World1 comment

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Augmented reality is, at the moment, the novel concept of being able to superimpose something virtua … more →

Tags: VR FUTURE, Augmented Reality, world tracking, Arg

Sony's HMZ-T1 Head Mounted Display Launches 11/11/11, VR Gaming Integration Down the Road?6 comments

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Sony is launching a head mounted display (HMD) come 11/11, and it’s likely to be one of the hi … more →

Tags: VR Displays, Sony, Sony HMZ-T1, HMD, head mounted display

Omni-directional Treadmills Could Allow You to Roam Virtual Environments2 comments

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: An omni-directional treadmill is just like your traditional gym treadmill, except instead of only be … more →

Tags: omni-direcitonal treadmill, virtual reality movement

Following the Road to Virtual Reality

Ben Lang wrote 1 year ago: Today begins my journey cataloging the Road to Virtual Reality. I actually started a very similar bl … more →

Tags: VR FUTURE, kinect, Xbox, Microsoft, Virtual Reality, VR, Gaming, Movies, interactive movies


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