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Palmer Luckey has released a new blog post entitled "I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you." where he discusses Facebook's decision to save money in the design of the Oculus Rift S by getting rid of the interpupillary adjustment feature. IPD (interpupillary distance, the distance between your...

Microsoft has filed a patent for a new type of mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) called a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display. The display uses movable screens to simulate a 360 degree field of view. These screens can rotate back and forth, spin around a user's head, or spin...

In spite of some growing pains associated with the technology, it seems that virtual reality and augmented reality will play a significant role in the future of society. But just what happens to people if they spend days, or even weeks, inside of VR/AR? One YouTuber decided to find out, as he...

Mobile device manufacturers released a slew of new handsets and MWC this year, but Forbes' Patrick Moorhead thinks that Microsoft's HoloLens 2 was one of the most impressive devices at the show. The new headset doubles the field of view of the original Hololens without sacrificing pixel density...

In a forum AMA that UploadVR spotted over the weekend, Oculus Director of Ecosystem Chris Pruett said that the upcoming Oculus Quest will be "significantly faster" that Facebook's last mainstream standalone headset, the Oculus Go. This should seem fairly obvious, as the Quest will use a Qualcomm...

Citing "people familiar with the plans," a recent report by Bloomberg claims that Apple plans to launch iPhones and iPads with a longer range, rear-facing 3D camera "as soon as next year." This new camera would supposedly use a laser scanner to create a 3D representation of the environment...

The VR training industry is bustling with growth as more companies use the headsets to train employees about safety procedures on the job. According to statistics, 713 workers fell to their deaths in workplace accidents in 2017. Workplace injuries cost employers $150 billion every year. By using...

Intel has announced it is taking preorders for its new RealSense Tracking Camera T265. The Intel RealSense Tracking Camera T265 will allow developers to build autonomous devices, delivering high-performance guidance and navigation. The T265 uses proprietary visual inertial odometry simultaneous...

Citing a paywalled report from Business Insider, UploadVR says that Facebook is working on an AR prototype resembling "traditional glasses much more closely than the bulky AR headsets offered by Microsoft (the HoloLens) or Magic Leap." The report also mentions that the company moved "hundreds"...

During an interview with CNN, former Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey detailed his vision for national security. After selling his Oculus VR technology to Facebook and leaving the company he founded behind, Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril Industries in Orange County, California. There his team...

Nissan gave spectators a glimpse of the future of driving at CES this year. While they've been talking up several concepts as part of their Intelligent mobility roadmap, like an electric racecar, improved internal combustion engines, and advanced vehicle communication technology, they're also...

According to a report by Patently Mobile, Samsung recently filed a patent for an in-air gesture control system designed for AR and VR headsets. Such a system would use a color camera, a depth camera, and an infrared sensor with an infrared light for illumination, at the very least. Simple...

A company called Feelreal just announced a system that lets users experience smells in VR applications. Using chemicals "similar to those used in the food industry," theoretically, VR users can experience the smell of burning rubber in a race game, or roses in a garden, among other things. A...

The FCC revealed the existence of Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 earlier this year, but other than some EM tests suggesting Bluetooth 5.0 support, the information was light on technical details. But Mysmartprice managed to spot a Geekbench listing featuring the upcoming Google glasses. The...

Coolso Technology has unveiled its new muscle bio sensors that allow everyday gestures to be interpreted as commands in virtual reality and augmented reality. The company's founder Jack Wu says that they have many uses beyond gaming and medical applications. At the 2018 Meet Taipei Startup...

Reflective displays, like those found in e-books, offer higher efficiency than the traditional, emissive displays you're probably reading this article on. But current reflective displays suffer from a limited color gamut and slow pixel response times. However, researchers from the Deflt...

A design sketch for the successor to the enterprise version of Google Glass was leaked through the FTC, and Mysmartprice managed to spot it. While this more or less confirms an update, the FTC listing didn't list actual specifications for the product. While the consumer-oriented Google glasses...

Roy Steiber, senior vice president of VR at HTC and president of the Viveport store was interviewed by GamesBeat. He discussed upcoming product development like 6DOF controllers for the wireless HTC Focus headset and the possibility of console like business models for VR going forward. He...

Researchers are developing FocusAR: auto-focusing augmented reality eyewear that can replace prescription eyeglasses. The glasses dynamically correct for the focus of the real world surrounding the near-eye display of the user and simultaneously the internal display for augmented synthetic...

The Novarad OpenSight Augmented Reality System has been granted FDA approval for medical use in pre-operative surgical planning. This is the first time that the FDA has issued a 510(k) clearance for a medical device using Microsoft HoloLens technology. The OpenSight AR System renders 2D, 3D...

Digitimes Research predicts that the global AR/VR headset shipments will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 52.7% over a 5 year period, reaching 40 million units in 2023. However, they seem to think most of that growth will come from standalone headsets. The researchers claim "Screen-less...

In a Facebook post, Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe announced that he's leaving Facebook. On the surface of things, the departure seems to be relatively amicable, as most high profile departures are. However, Techcrunch seems to think that his departure is related to the cancellation of the...

Samsung officially launched the successor to their Odyssey mixed reality headset today. The Odyssey+ features dual 1440x1600 OLED displays, headphones developed by AKG, Cortana integration, and 6DOF controllers, just like its predecessor. However, Samsung claims to have doubled the PPI of each...

A Texas company called Thrust Vector is using an Oculus Go inside airborn training aircraft to simulate various scenarios. The cofounders say they've flown "probably 2 dozen full approaches in full VR, all the way down to about 50 feet above the runway." The current incarnation of the system...

Coinciding with the wider availability of the Magic Leap One, Weta Workshop showed off a new trailer for "Dr. Grordbort's Invaders" at L.E.A.P. Con. The game will be available for free, and is rumored to include some sort of multiplayer functionality. More info should be coming out of L.E.A.P...

While the Magic Leap One has technically been out since August, it was only available in select cities, and involved a representative coming to help set up the device. But now the Magic Leap One Creator Edition is widely available across the US. The company is also offering a 0% APR financing...

Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot is a new game for the Magic Leap One Creator's Edition AR headset that was developed in partnership with the AR/VR studio Resolution Games and Rovio Entertainment. Head-tracking and the ability to use the Magic Leap One's controller as a bow adds...

Palmer Luckey has a vested interest in VR as he was the founder of Oculus VR and designed the Oculus Rift head mounted display (HMD). He ordered a Magic Leap and sent it off to iFixit to help others to learn how it is constructed. In his latest blog post, he gives his honest assessment of the...

Nvidia is going to livestream CEO Jensen Huang's presentation on the center stage at SIGGRAPH 2018. This event will occur at 4 p.m. PT on Monday, Aug. 13. Even if the new Nvidia GPUs aren't revealed; there are plenty of interesting talks by Nvidia employees going on during the conference...

MIcrosoft HoloLens hasn't gotten off to the fastest start as the device has been relegated to researchers, developers and limited industrial uses. At the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Microsoft gave a demo of the recently released Research Mode which allows developers...

Creators can order their very own Magic Leap One starting at only $2,295. After ordering, a person will set the device up for you. I would assume that a person intelligent to write software for the device can set it up themselves. The device specifications are listed here and CNET was allowed...

The elusive and many times demo-faking Magic Leap is up for a live stream today on Twitch at 1pm CDT. All that said, we can all watch for ourselves and see if this thing is worth the $2B in investor money when it comes to revolutionizing the world of Augmented Reality as it has been promising...

SteamVR Beta now supports up to 16 base stations that allows users to cover multiple rooms. In this Twitter post by the China President of HTC Vive, Alvin Graylin, he shows an associate opening doors and entering multiple rooms while being fully tracked by the HTC Vive VR headset. He touts the...

Representatives for Magic Leap have announced an upcoming demo of a developer sample on July 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET. This will be shown on the official Magic Leap Twitch channel and the specifications for the Magic Leap One will also be disclosed. Magic Leap representatives are being...

Jay Bird Display (JBD) has unveiled their new Micro-LED technology that boasts of 5000ppi, and 1 million nits capability on a 2560x1920 device. The CEO suggested uses included integration into sniper scopes where the display would take over the duties of a spotter, lithography, 3D printing...

The Korea TImes is reporting that Samsung and Microsoft are expanding their alliance for mixed reality. The article states that Samsung is working on developing cordless, and high priced headsets that support AR and VR, while Microsoft is lowering its royalties to help entice users. Samsung has...

cNet is reporting that Apple is working on a project, codenamed T288, a powerful augmented reality, and virtual reality headset. Rumour is that the device will have dual 8k displays, and have a dedicated box using short range high-speed wireless technology to cut the cords found on current...

UploadVR is reporting that HTC has just released its software development kit for the front facing cameras on the new Vive Pro, turning it into an augmented reality developer kit. This means that the Vive Pro is now competing with Magic Leap directly, except without the red-tape, NDAs, and...

Osterhaut Design Group has come up with a unique way to help pilots see their instruments in the event the cockpit becomes filled with smoke. Current procedure calls for the pilots to put on oxygen masks so they can breath and then they try to keep flying. Of course the smoke might make it...

Bloomberg is reporting that AR startup Magic Leap has been quietly sending its units to software developers with an unusual condition. The units must be kept in locked safes. According to the article At least one company decided it wasn’t worth the hassle and declined a test device. The florida...