mem5000
Shut up and take my money!!!! I'd sell a kidney for one of these....
The Skud
Wireless and mobile? And people call those few wearing 'Glass' dorks? The possibilities are endless! Anybody remember reading an (fairly) early sci-fi novel worrying about teenagers who were 'virtually' opting out of reality by only seeing their drab or boring environment through the filter of VR? If you were an OGRE, or KING or PRINCESS, that is how you saw your world around you, an ELF? you saw cars, for instance, like dangerous orcs or something. I seem to remember the story used reading brainwaves for the control system, so the better they were at imagination, the more the story sucked them into it. If the device failed, or was turned off, it was like drug withdrawal and as hard to cope with.
Simon Sammut
I'll give you a healthy chunk of liver for one.. they grow back right???
Seth Miesters
Wondering if this will fry your eyeballs.
David Guzman
I don't think that Steve Jobs would agree with you on that one.
TV sets and Monitors were never the real reason why people got eye problems, that is just a common myth.
windykites
I would have appreciated a little more description of the visual display aspects of the device, such as how good was the definition? In older devices moving the head and then having a time lag see where to experience motion sickness, which is obviously very off-putting. I guess this is not a problem, now. These devices are one approach to the subject of virtual reality. Another method is hypnosis, which, if it works for the subject, gives total immersion in all senses. Obviously the cost is minimal, if not nothing (if you know a friendly hypnotist).
John in Brisbane
Awesome! I've got a dev kit and the thing rocks. I and everyone else who've tried it have been genuinely impressed. Glad to hear they're on the case with the retail version. Best 300 bucks I spent in 2013. I would actually line up for one of these, Apple-style :-) aside from from vr, they're clearly going to be used for Tele presence. I am currently trying to get mine talking to a remote camera to go on an rc aircraft... Oh yeah, the future is now, baby!
Matt Fletcher
They have been talking about these things forever (10+ years?) But if they have finally removed the lag time and jittery movement then they truly will have something worth selling now and should jump on producing and selling it now.
These things will be profound media access changers and won't be the only ones for long. Whoever gets in 1st (think Apple with the 1st Ipod, Iphone and IPad) will make killer profit margins until everyone else catches up. Think how quickly this will work itself into the $1 trillion global entertainment industry. The think how it will slowly erode/work it's way into gaming, adult entertainment, movies viewing, business travel, design and art companies, medical imaging, and the control of heavy equipment and drones. The future won't wait much longer.
Douglas Bennett Rogers
This will provide a quantum leap in budget piloting. Model with gimbal mounted cabin cam, tilting chair for pilot.
DonGateley
One has to wonder how long they can maintain the no price, no date posture and still attract trucks full of money. I'll believe in a "consumer" version when I can order one and expect it within the week. Until then it remains smoke and mirrors. Demonstrable smoke and mirrors, yes, but still smoke and mirrors.