19 hours to go on Altergaze Kickstarter

Boycotting the Oculus Rift because of the Facebook buyout? Or maybe the $350 price tag is too steep.

You have 19 hours left to chip in for the Altergaze Kickstarter, which has already passedÂ its funding goal of UKÂ Â£25,000.

A pledge ofÂ Â Â£30 or more gets you all the 3D files you need to print your own Altergaze headset.

A pledge ofÂ Â Â£50 gets you the basic componentsÂ that you can assemble yourself.

A pledge ofÂ Â Â£100 gets you a fully-assembled version.

The device is basically a plastic frame with lenses that you slide a cell phone into.

You can watch 3D videos, play 3D games — limited only by the constraints of the processing power on the cell phone. Which are significant, of course, but cell phones are improving quickly.

Watch the video below for more information about this device.

But if 3D-printed plastic is too upscale for you, you can also try to make a device out of cardboard.

And here’s one more take on the DIY cardboard headset:

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.