What are the hottest tech trends look forward to this year? Well, let's start with the obvious choice first: wearables. Another product category looking to explode on the scene this year is virtual-reality. Comic book fans will specially love the Oculus Rift, a piece of headgear whose design is reminiscent of Cyclops' battle visor. Utilizing miniature LCD screens and sensors, you'll be able to be fully immersed while playing the latest video games. RAW video cameras are also going to be creeping their way ever closer to the consumer market. This type of video capture is already an accepted standard in the TV, fashion and filmmaking industries.

Wearables became a thing in 2013, with the release of the Pebble smartwatch and the Galaxy Gear. Pebble isn't made by some big evil corporation and they still managed to make a better watch then Samsung. That being said, the Galaxy Gear is still for sale, but buyer beware. The clunky design stinks, the included camera is useless, and it doesn't even last an entire day. Samsung only released it to beat Apple to the smart watch punch. All I can hope for is that Samsung's watch heads to a galaxy far, far away.

So let's face it, 2014 is all about the iWatch. If the iWatch is as mind-blowing as some rumor sites claim, then it should be a worthy addition to your jewelry collection. Unfortunately, it looks like the iWatch will emulate the Galaxy Gear in one respect: a$299 price tag. For most people, that constitutes a hefty investment, but the fitness features and Apple's reputation for making easy to use devices should hold up. Now, what kind of fitness features can you expect too see? Basically, anything and everything. Besides tracking the amount of calories that you've burned, the iWatch will tell you when you need to take a drink of water.

Google Glass also falls under the wearable category. At $1,500, the heads-up display-touting Glass doesn't come cheap and I don't expect it to fly off of store shelves. But with time and increased competition, that money-sucking price will drop. You can also get a prescription version! Price aside, one major problem I see affecting Google Glass adaptation is privacy laws. Glass allows you to take videos and pictures at all times if you wish. Glass explorers have already been told to remove their headgear because it poses all sorts of risks. But should wearers have to remove Glass every time they enter a building? Personally, I don't think so... we as a society should give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to technology.

Now whats all this nonsense about RAW video you ask? Quality of course! You may think your cell phone, camcorder or DSLR records good video (and you'd be right), but they don't stack up to the mind-bending quality of RAW. The difference between RAW video and compressed video is so vast that I liken the latter to everyone's favorite vision ailment: cataracts. When you have cataracts your vision is blurry and colors tinge. Compressed video acts exactly the same way -- no matter your skill level your shots will still be filled with a certain amount of blurriness and inaccurate color rendition. RAW video changes this by utilizing all the scene information that is derived from the video sensor. Overkill or not, RAW video capabilities will be included with consumer cameras this year. So far the cheapest we've got is the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera.

Virtual reality has matured so much over the past couple of years after all but fizzling out in the 1980s. Established employees at some of the biggest tech and game companies have begun to quit their jobs to work at Oculus VR, maker of Rift. John Carmack is one of those employees, and he left the company he found, ID Software, for a shot at making the Oculus Rift the next big thing in gaming. Valve is one of the major game companies that will create content that is compatible with the immersive headgear. High definition gaming will never be the same.

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