Category Archives: Augmented Reality

Oculus Rift Musings: Part 2 – the Facebook Acquisition

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Ron

I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology. Mark Zuckerberg March 25, 2014 And that was the 2 billion dollar “cha-ching” heard ’round the world. Now there are two extreme this … Continue reading →

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Oculus Rift Musings: Part 1 – Oculus at GDC2014

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Ron

I’ve played with the initial SDK and unlike some folks I don’t get motion sickness and the lag was barely noticeable. It was a solid 1st effort and I was looking forward to trying out Crystal Cove, Oculus VR’s 2nd … Continue reading →

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Sony to announce VR HMD at GDC?

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Ron

The rumor is that Sony might announce its Oculus competitor at GDC – speculation fueled by two of the presenters (Marks and Mikhailov) who have some experience with new technology and might signal the announcement of a commercial implementation of … Continue reading →

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New Oculus Head Mounted Display Wows them at CES

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Ron

Oculus VR marches on, WOWing folks at CES that have gotten a chance to  try out their new Crystal Cove 1080p OLED display plus the newly added motion tracking ability courtesy  of the dots embedded in the headset and monitored … Continue reading →

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Oculus Rift – may just be able to succeed, and change the world as we know it

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Ron

I’ve had some fun playing with my Oculus Rift dev kit. It’s got some great features, it’s got the latency problem whipped, and just needs to work a bit on tools and upping the resolution – if’s a great proof-of-concept, … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality: Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing turns your skin into an input device

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Ron

AR has a major usability problem – how to interact with the program – after all you can’t (easily) carry around a keyboard. MIT’s Sixth Sense uses a video camera to discern how you are interacting with a projected interface. … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality: Suddenly it’s hot – are we reaching a tipping point?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Ron

I was really thrilled when I saw Google’s Glass, a video presentation about Augmented Reality using some tech mounted on a glasses frame. Then Oakley stated it was working on something like that, tying smartphones to AR glasses (ok they’re … Continue reading →

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