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 ...

Nikon has announced the Nikkor 28-135mm F4 PZ, a lens geared toward professional video shooters, and the company's first full ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive ...

This is a decent price point for high-end VR. The aspheric Mini-LED lenses in the Crystal Light are nice and bright but going for this tech over the more popular pancake style has tacked on some ...

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 ...

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 ...