News of the HoloLens rental and expansion into two new markets comes at the heels of HP's new Windows Mixed
Reality Headset for processionals revealed last week.
Dell's first mixed -
reality headset for the Windows Mixed Reality (MR) platform, the Dell Visor, is now available to pre-order.
Google Daydream View is ready to transform your next Android phone into an immersive virtual
reality headset for a convincing price.
Google Daydream: Converts an otherwise normal smartphone in a Daydream - certified virtual
reality headset for games, movies, and educational apps.
While the Google Daydream View hasn't really set the world on fire yet, and VR is sort of possible on the iPhone already, we'd love to see an inexpensive virtual
reality headset for the next iPhone.
Try Oculus Rift, a virtual
reality headset for 3D gaming, to explore films by Total Cinema 360 and explore the game by designer Greg Aring combining oculus and Kinect technology.
2014 saw us reboot the classic table top racing experience in Toybox Turbos — which has now been updated to support the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) virtual
reality headset for incredible immersion!
Last night at Game Developers Conference, Sony made the announcement that we all knew was coming and revealed the virtual
reality headset for the PlayStation 4.
Sony Computer Entertainment has just lifted the lid on brand new hardware at GDC 2014 in San Francisco: its own virtual
reality headset for PlayStation 4, codenamed Project Morpheus.
The choices, which are rankable, include the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR Virtual
Reality Headset for mobile and «Nintendo NX, or a new Nintendo console.»
We've been playing with the HTC Vive virtual
reality headset for a while now.
It's a virtual
reality headset for under $ 100, that's huge for the industry at large.
Sony plans to release its own virtual
reality headset for PlayStation 4 in 2014, sources close to Eurogamer have stated.
Rumours were plentiful leading up to this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, with the most prominent and recurring suggestion being that Sony would be announcing a virtual
reality headset for the PS4.
Fire up the fun as Codemasters reboots the classic table top racing experience in Toybox Turbos — now updated to support the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) virtual
reality headset for incredible immersion!
The service will be available on devices such as the PlayStation VR, a virtual -
reality headset for Sony's PlayStation 4 video game console, the Gear VR headset from South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. and the VIVE of Taiwan's HTC Corp..
In deals, a NOON virtual
reality headset for under $ 65.
Volkswagen said that it would be using a version of the HTC Vive virtual
reality headset for businesses as part of its rollout of the new app.
Last month, Facebook (fb) began taking preorders for its highly anticipated Oculus Rift Consumer Edition virtual
reality headset for $ 599.
In August 2012, 19 - year - old Palmer Luckey launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift, a virtual
reality headset for 3D video games.
On board long - haul flights, passengers can rent virtual
reality headsets for $ 15 per flight to watch a selection of the latest films and documentaries in 3D, 2D and VR 180 °.
After already bringing Minecraft VR support to the Oculus Rift and Gear VR, Minecraft will also be playable in VR with the Windows Mixed
Reality headsets for Windows 10.
Just this summer, U.S. Navy gunnery sailors tested augmented
reality headsets for battle purposes.
The new outsiders include a former Dolby labs executive, engineers who worked virtual
reality headsets for Google and Microsoft, and some Hollywood digital effects experts, the report notes.
Leading makers such as Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo have recently launched the Windows Mixed
Reality headsets for as low as $ 399, you will also receive headset - motion controller in the package.
Last October, Microsoft announced that its partners would be launching virtual
reality headsets for users on a budget.
Not exact matches
Oculus is the leader in immersive virtual
reality technology and has already built strong interest among developers, having received more than 75,000 orders
for development kits
for the company's virtual
reality headset, the Oculus Rift.
For instance, last month Sony unveiled its PlayStation VR, a virtual
reality gaming
headset.
One of the features that sets Oculus Rift apart from other virtual
reality headsets is its lightweight display screen and overall emphasis on comfort that allows
for long play sessions.
Some of the deals NewEgg previewed include a Oculus Rift virtual
reality headset with controllers that will cost $ 350 instead of $ 400, making
for yet another recent price cut
for the Facebook - owned (fb)
headset.
When most people think of virtual
reality, they think of 3 - D gaming or Oculus, the maker of
headsets that Facebook acquired
for $ 2 billion.
The biggest name in the latest batch of compatible products is the Oculus Rift, the Kickstarter - funded virtual
reality headset whose creator was bought by Facebook
for $ 2 billion.
Oculus, the virtual
reality company Facebook bought in 2014
for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR
headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual
reality technology is growing.
Yet, the Book 2
for $ 2,000 (there's a more basic version that costs $ 1,500) uses the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
for graphics processing, and it worked exceptionally well
for Wolfenstein 2, several other visually intense games, and
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The Gear VR
headset is the product of a partnership between Samsung and Oculus, the virtual
reality company Facebook (fb) bought in 2014
for $ 2 billion.
It's one thing
for a person to be merely astonished by a friend's virtual
reality headset, and another thing
for that person to want to actually buy one.
In March, Sony said that its virtual
reality headset would be available in October
for $ 399.
For example, the National History Museum of Los Angeles County, recently hosted a VR exhibit called theBlu, in which visitors could put on VR
headsets to explore the ocean in virtual
reality.
With the advent of virtual
reality, however, it may not be long until people can simply strap on
headsets and shop
for used cars without having to leave their homes.
Microsoft has HoloLens, a prototype
for an augmented
reality headset that's still in development, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer calls HoloLens an «untethered» experience, telling TIME last summer that «it's a standalone device that all of the computing power is in the head - mounted display.»
One, it's not safe to assume a virtual
reality headset won't require Xbox Scorpio, since VR support has been part of the company's public rationale
for boosting the Xbox One's performance footprint this substantially.
Many analysts say that virtual
reality is still waiting
for a so - called killer app that will make people more interested in purchasing VR
headsets.
So while it's unlikely that HoloLens itself will be hitting shelves this year, you'll have your choice of
headset that runs the very same software, right in time
for Windows 10 to get an update in the first half of this year that adds support
for HoloLens - style so - called «mixed
reality.»
Jens Christensen, CEO of Jaunt VR, told Fast Company that the
headsets need to get much lighter before they can withstand feature - length entertainment, making this first major Hollywood move into virtual
reality a gamble
for 20th Century Fox.
With the $ 130 MergeVR
headset launching this fall alongside the high - end HTC Vive VR
headset, and the Oculus Rift device set
for a Q1 2016 release ahead of the Sony Morpheus VR
headset launch, the groundwork is being laid
for consumer VR to become a
reality.
The pre-orders
for the consumer version of the virtual
reality headset Oculus Rift are on sale.
Facebook acquired Oculus
for $ 2 billion last year, a technology company which created the highly anticipated Oculus Rift virtual
reality headset.
Kiiroo sells a pair of sex devices, one
for men (the $ 250 Onyx) and one
for women (the $ 149 Pearl) pair via Bluetooth with the virtual
reality headset and syncs to what's happening in the movie or instructional video through a special encoding.
Facebook announced plans to buy the virtual
reality headset maker
for $ 2 billion, angering a lot of vocal gamers in the process.
Facebook set tongues wagging when it paid $ 19 billion
for instant - messaging startup WhatsApp last March, then followed it up a month later by shelling out $ 2 billion
for virtual
reality headset maker Oculus VR.