Engineering is all about trade-offs, and that’s especially true in VR headset design. Pancake lenses are compact units that rely on polarization to bounce light around internally, resulting in a ...

and we’ll end up with the cutting edge in lens design for smartphone cameras and VR headsets. Philosophers and scientists across most cultures and periods have thought about light. Our modern ...

I really didn't like the Pimax Crystal Light the first time I put it on. This headset is clunky and bigger than many of the ...

Smart contact lenses could also be the next frontier for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Patents are already being filed by tech giants and mixed-reality innovators alike for ...

SolidddVision Smartglasses mimic a fly's eye structure to fill in missing vision for macular degeneration sufferers.

we saw Canon pushing on with dual fisheye concept lenses aimed at VR content creation. Voigtländer served up a new pancake lens designed exclusively for Fujifilm X-mount cameras. Less than an ...

APS-C photographers have fewer options for this kind of lens, at least for now. The best we’ve found is the Nikon Nikkor Z DX 18–140mm f/3.5–6.3 VR, which squeezes a lot of zoom range into a ...

To meet this need, Zenni Optical, the world's leading online eyewear retailer, partnered with Meta to produce the only prescription lens for the Meta Quest 3. When wearing a VR gaming headset ...

Google's head-worn device showed flat UI elements seen only in the corner of one lens. Its interface was much closer to that of a smartwatch than to VR. Like Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap 1 ...