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Awesome Stuff: Virtual & Augmented Reality Headsets

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Sat, Jan 31st 2015 9:00am — Mike Masnick

For this week's awesome stuff, we're going to take a step into virtual and augmented reality headsets. Obviously, the Oculus Rift is the device that everyone talks about, but tons of alternatives -- often making use of your own mobile phone -- keep springing up, including things like Google Cardboard. Of course, in the last couple of weeks plenty of attention has been paid to Microsoft's HoloLens, which is looking to redefine the market in a slightly different direction. But here are three crowdfunded offerings trying to make their way in the space as well.

SEER First up is SEER, which its developers insist is an augmented reality solution inspired by Iron Man. It has a wide field of view, works off of your existing smartphone and is a very open platform. I'm guessing the guys behind this weren't thrilled with the timing of the HoloLens announcement, but it still looks pretty cool, and the price tag doesn't seem crazy.
VISR The VISR looks like Google Cardboard made much nicer. It's using laminated corrugate, so while still corrugated material, it's much nicer and more durable. Plus it comes with a strap to attach it to your head (unlike the basic Google Cardboard setup). Despite all that, VISR is priced at about the same price as you'll find various folks selling their own variations on Google Cardboard, so this seems like a fairly nice alternative. XG Virtual Reality Headset Taking it up a notch is the XG Virtual Reality headset, which could be seen as sort of somewhere between Google Cardboard and the Oculus Rift. It's made by I AM Cardboard, which was one of the more well known makers of pre-fabbed Google Cardboard offerings, but they decided to take it up a notch and build a much nicer overall headset at a still reasonable fee.

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Tue, Jul 23rd 2013 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Smartphones and tablets are popular devices nowadays, but what's going to come next? Smartwatches or smartglasses or smartshoes? Besides Google Glass, there are a bunch of wearable computers on the market already. So far, the smartglasses haven't quite caught on, but maybe they just need a bit more time for people to get used to the interface. Here are just a few examples of smartglasses that you can buy if you want a glimpse into the "future" of electronic gadgets.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset could be free someday (now $300), subsidized by a VR game subscription or with advertising (or both), perhaps. Oculus Rift CEO Brendan Iribe predicts that the hardware could become cheap enough that the device could be given away or bundled with software services. [url]
The Recon Jet is a pair of sunglasses that's also a wearable computer. It's a bit bigger and heavier than Google Glass, and it puts its heads up display in the lower right corner of the user's field of vision -- so that it doesn't make the user look towards the sun and because research has shown that looking down is easier than looking up. [url]
GlassUp is another wearable heads up display that costs about $400 and pairs up with a separate mobile device so that it doesn't use much power on its own. GlassUp puts its heads up display info near the center of a wearer's field of vision -- and early adopters can get a discount by supporting its Indiegogo campaign. [url]

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Filed Under: augmented reality, gadgets, glasses, heads up display, headsets, hud, smartglasses, vr, wearable computing
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