A DIY Headset For SteamVR

The modern era of VR started a long time ago, and a wide range of commercial headsets have proliferated on the market since then. If you don’t want to buy …read more Continue reading A DIY Headset For SteamVR
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The modern era of VR started a long time ago, and a wide range of commercial headsets have proliferated on the market since then. If you don’t want to buy …read more Continue reading A DIY Headset For SteamVR

The Razer Nari is a decent wireless headset, but it’s a little oddball—because it uses a bespoke USB dongle for pairing. This is all well and good if you’re using …read more Continue reading Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux

The modern era of virtual reality really kicked off in earnest just over a decade ago, when the Oculus Rift promised 3D worlds beyond your wildest dreams. Since then, nobody’s …read more Continue reading 3D Printing A Cheap VR Headset

The Bigscreen Beyond is a small and lightweight VR headset that in part achieves its small size and weight by requiring custom fitting based on a facial scan. [Val’s Virtuals] …read more Continue reading VR Headset With Custom Face Fitting Gets Even More Custom
Rather than cut a chunk of skull away to install a brain-computer interface like Neuralink, Synchron feeds electrodes up through the jugular vein to the motor cortex. Now the tech has enabled an ALS sufferer hands-free control of Apple’s Vision Pro.Con… Continue reading Blood vessel brain implant brings mind control to Apple’s spatial computer

So it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024
Finland’s industrial VR/XR hardware manufacturer Varjo has announced the latest edition of its mixed-reality headset for enterprise and military, which is claimed to offer “virtual and mixed reality experiences practically indistinguishable from natura… Continue reading XR-4 aims for mixed reality that’s “indistinguishable from natural sight”
After an athlete has suffered a concussion, it’s very important that they wait until the injury has fully healed before returning to the playing field. A new headset is designed to let them know when it’s safe to do so, by monitoring their “headpulse.”… Continue reading Headset measures “headpulse” to better gauge concussion recovery

Putting on a headset and using virtual monitors in VR instead of physical ones is a use case that pops up, but is it really something feasible? [Karl Guttag], who …read more Continue reading Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For a While Yet

Lenses are a necessary part of any head-mounted display, but unfortunately, they aren’t always easy to source. Taking them out of an existing headset is one option, but one may …read more Continue reading Making Your Own VR Headset? Consider This DIY Lens Design