Remove Filming Remove Google Remove Head Mounted Display Remove Magic Leap
article thumbnail

The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens.

Haptic 100
article thumbnail

A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day. They were slick, they were robust.

AR 102
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

AR 78
article thumbnail

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

AR 78
article thumbnail

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

AR 60