Volume is a $1,000 holographic display for your home

Just when we were running out of things to throw our money at, along comes a new product nobody actually asked for. Startup Looking Glass made a "personal volumetric display" called Volume that it says will let you see VR (or really, 3D content) with...

The HoloFlex is a flexible, glasses-free 3D display

Researchers at the Queen's University Human Media Lab in Ontario have developed what they claim is the "world's first holographic flexible smartphone" display. Dubbed the HoloFlex, the display uses an array of tiny lenses overlaid onto one flexible 1...

HoloLens TED Talk shows what augmented reality can do

If you think you have a sense of what Microsoft's HoloLens headset can do, you're in for a pleasant surprise. The company's Alex Kipman recently presented a TED Talk on HoloLens that included multiple fresh demos illustrating Kipman's vision of an au...

Microsoft shows how you tell stories with HoloLens

When Microsoft started taking pre-orders for its HoloLens developer headset, it teased a digital storytelling app named Actiongram. But what is it, exactly, and how does it work? The folks in Redmond are finally ready to explain. In a detailed blog p...

Astronauts are trying Microsoft HoloLens in space

Astronauts will soon have plenty of sweet tools at their disposal, but nothing quite like this -- as promised, NASA recently began testing Microsoft HoloLens aboard the International Space Station. The augmented reality headset is there as part of a...