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Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

Road to VR

Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign. The hardware will not change.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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Apple’s Latest Patents Mark More Territory in AR Headset Hardware and Software

Road to VR

In the figure below, the patent shows off a Google Glass-style configuration that is “especially well suited to be used with head mounted displays and a camera pointed at the space in front of the user.” Samsung, Apple v. Apple AR patent detailing methods for computing 3D coordinates, image courtesy USPTO.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

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As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. Don’t have one yet? Just go to your local hardware store, pay as little as $5, et voilá!

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New startup mixes reality with computer vision and sets the stage for an entire industry

Robert Scoble

But, of course, this really will rock when we get wearable devices that will enable us to use this kind of augmented reality without holding a device in our hands. Well, we all know Apple is coming with some sort of head mounted display (technical term for something like a headphone that has screens for you to look at).

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

VR Playhouse

VR, of course, is a different beast, or so I tell myself. One day, we will all regularly consume media through head mounted displays, just as we all watch television today. Of course not. The first head mounted display was designed originally for pilots and created by Howard Hughes’ aviation company.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

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It has eight cameras, and the distance is very close, with a huge overlap in the lens field of course. Ozo’s output is one single cable going into either your storage or a head-mounted display. Or a lot of commercials, of course. Of course that drove a lot of viewers. Many rigs have a much wider distance.