Collaborate Disseminate
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
When the PlayStation VR2 headset was released, people wondered whether it would be possible to get the headset to work as a PC VR headset. That would mean being able …read more Continue reading Closing in on a PC enabled PSVR2
Every finished product stands at the end of a long line of prototypes, and Sony have recently shared an interview and images of their PlayStation VR2 prototypes. Many of the …read more Continue reading Behold a Gallery of Sony’s PS VR2 Prototypes
Unsatisfied with commercial VR headset options, [dragonskyrunner] did what any enterprising hacker would: gathered parts over time and ultimately made their own. Behold the Hades Widebody (HWD), a DIY PC …read more Continue reading Behold a DIY VR Headset its Creator Will “Never” Build Again
Everyone wants a wider field of view in their VR headsets, but that’s not an easy nut to crack. [Statonwest] shows there’s a way to get at least some of the …read more Continue reading Enhance VR Immersion by Shoehorning an Ambilight into a Headset
[rafii6312]’s Corsair HS80 wireless headset had a big problem: short range. The sound quality was great, but the wireless range wasn’t winning any friends. Fortunately, the solution was just to …read more Continue reading Headset’s Poor Range Fixed By Replacing Antenna