Lenovo couldn't miss the opportunity to unveil a couple of new 2-in-1 Windows 10 PCs, a mixed reality headset and Home Assistant Pack at IFA 2017.
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IFA 2017 hasn't begun yet, but Dell is wasting no time detailing the long-in-the-works Visor mixed reality headset and a couple of convertible laptops.
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Qualcomm obviously wants to lead the upcoming AR, VR, MR and "XR" revolution, supporting advanced depth-sensing tech for Android products.
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Three students backed by a fairly impressive group of investors may have just come up with the ultimate low-cost AR headset for iPhones.
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A number of largely affordable Windows Mixed Reality headsets are coming "later this year", and Microsoft has new designs and details to share.
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Samsung always likes to keep an eye on the (distant) future of tech, planning early demos of VR and AR-focused C-Lab concepts at MWC 2017.
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Samsung always likes to keep an eye on the (distant) future of tech, planning early demos of VR and AR-focused C-Lab concepts at MWC 2017.
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Don't hold your breath for a HoloLens v2 announcement this year or the next, rumor has it, as Microsoft takes its time to develop something big.
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Although virtual reality headsets have (moderately) taken off much faster than their mixed reality smartglasses counterparts, and Google’s commercial stumbles in the latter market may serve as a cautionary tale for fellow tech veterans and big-name rivals, it looks like Microsoft, Qualcomm and even Apple are still keen to give AR hardware a try.
Yes, that seemingly unfounded rumor about a Cupertino-made pair of augmented reality goggles a couple of months back picks up a little more steam today, thanks to the investigative work of blogger, technology evangelist, author, and consultant for the immersive media world Robert Scoble.
Scoble first sniffed there was something going on at Carl Zeiss’ CES 2017 booth last week, when the German company’s employees “smiled nervously” at a Tim Cook joke meant to justify the absence of mixed reality optics prototypes, despite the lens specialist’s occupancy of an exhibition space dedicated to AR.
After doing some digging, the journalist was purportedly able to confirm speculation that Apple and Carl Zeiss AG are working on a “light pair of augmented reality/mixed reality glasses that may be announced this year.”
An obviously unnamed Zeiss employee is cited as the “confirmation’s” source, and while Apple has a reputation for dragging out the R&D process of avant-garde products like this one sounds, all signs start to point to a 2017 release. No concrete evidence however, so let’s keep our expectations pragmatically low.
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Everybody wants a bigger or smaller piece of the early virtual, augmented and mixed reality action, as well as a fast-growing pie of resulting profits. HTC and Valve have partnered on perhaps the most critically acclaimed high-end VR headset thus far, Sony and Oculus promise to provide tough competition, while Samsung leads in humbler, smartphone-dependent goggles.
Of course, Google is now rising against the Gear VR lineup with a complex Daydream platform, both mobile tech specialists also working behind the scenes on completely standalone VR devices.
And then there’s Microsoft, focused on turning the dev-friendly HoloLens into a consumer-oriented product… sooner or later, as well as opening the Windows Holographic OS to a wide range of lower-cost gadgets from third-party OEMs.
The HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Acer-made virtual reality headsets are apparently coming next year for $299 and up, supporting different experiences contingent on each of their price tags, specific capabilities and the skills of connected PCs.
With more official details right around the corner, we’re happy to report unofficial news about compatibility with Windows 10 computers featuring as little as 4GB RAM, a DirectX12-enabled GPU, quad-core CPU and 1GB free storage.
Yes, we’re talking any quad-core CPU, even dual cores with hyperthreading, and at least in theory, graphics cards as modest as NVIDIA’s GeForce 410M, GT 540M, GTX 660 or GT 740. Technically, you’ll need a USB 3.0 port too, but in its absence, you may “experience issues” rather than get booted out of the Windows Holographic ecosystem.
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With tablets pretty much hanging by a thread nowadays, traditional PCs stagnating after a free fall from mainstream popularity, smartphones heading for their first ever decline, and smartwatches still seeking that compelling use case, Apple is left wondering what the industry’s “next big thing” might be.
Self-driving cars? Autonomous virtual reality headsets? How about AR-based smart glasses? That latter concept is reportedly worth a revisit and second R&D try following Google’s monumental failure of getting it off the ground, sealed just last year.
Google Glass, or Project Glass, was very enthusiastically received by “explorers” back in 2013, but privacy and safety concerns, not to mention battery life shortcomings and, well, a decidedly douchey design ultimately killed the oh-so-full-of-promise wearable initiative.
Since then, many tech veterans and big fishes showed interest in VR hardware and software rather than AR, including El Goog, Samsung, HTC, Sony and Facebook. Not Microsoft though, which remains invested in mixed reality HoloLens gear powered by the Windows Holographic platform, while Apple is likely still in the early stages of any sort of development in this field.
Don’t expect an advanced Apple Glass prototype to be outed before 2018 therefore, and like other projects in Cupertino “exploration” and careful consideration, a pivot, pause or altogether cancellation are always possible.
As for what the product may do if it ever materializes, all we know is it would probably “connect wirelessly to iPhones, show images and other information in the wearer’s field of vision”, as well as “use augmented reality” technology… somehow. That’s certainly vague but also arguably intriguing.
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Aside from mobile hardware and software, Microsoft’s New York City event last week pretty much had it all. We were treated not only to a first-of-a-kind though mostly predictable Surface Studio all-in-one PC announcement, but a ...
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According to Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, Terry Myerson, at a currently ongoing New York City press event, there are over 400 million people around the world already using the platform’s build 10 just 15 months after its initial manufacturing release.Since July 2015, Windows 10 only got one semi-major makeover in both desktop and mobile incarnations, dubbed simply the Anniversary Update, with the so-called “Redstone 2” rumored for a spring 2017 rollout for a while now.Of course, this will actually ship to Windows 10 devices for free ...
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In case you couldn’t already tell, Google is no longer messing around with futuristic virtual reality technology. Gone are the days of rudimentary Cardboard viewers, as the Daydream platform takes both immersive hardware and software to the next level.But there’s also a level after that, and the search giant might swiftly be closing ...
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Widely available stateside and up north for a good couple of months now, the world’s first (and still only) “self-contained holographic computer” is today marking another major milestone in its quest to break mixed-reality technology into the mainstream scene.Still aimed exclusively at developers and business organizations (though anyone can buy and try it out), the Microsoft HoloLens head-mounted display finally expands ...
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