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A resupply mission to the International Space Station is planned for next week, which will include a special delivery for Andreas Mogensen in the shape of a Vive Focus 3 VR headset intended to help the Danish astronaut cope with the stress of working i… Continue reading HTC VR headset prepped and ready for mental health mission to ISS
When it comes right down to it, most telepresence robots are essentially just remote-control tablets that can be steered around a room. The VRoxy system is different in that its robot replicates the user’s movements, plus it auto-pilots itself to diffe… Continue reading VRoxy system pushes telepresence beyond just looking and talking
Fluid Reality is offering an alternative to currently available haptic VR gloves, developing a cheaper, more lightweight device that doesn’t need to be tethered to bulky backpacks or trail multitudes of tubing. It’s designed to provide users with a hig… Continue reading Fluid Reality introduces its untethered, high-res haptic VR gloves
A new study has found that incorporating virtual reality into therapy for hoarding disorder, allowing people to virtually dispose of clutter, reduced symptoms and increased real-life discarding of objects. It suggests the technology could provide an ef… Continue reading Virtual reality proves effective at helping hoarders declutter
“This is really the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen,” said podcast host Lex Fridman, interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in VR using Meta’s stunning new photorealistic avatars, coming soon to Quest, so lifelike that they “cross the uncanny valley.”Contin… Continue reading Zuckerberg and Fridman show off insane leap in face-to-face VR chat
“This is really the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen,” said podcast host Lex Fridman, interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in VR using Meta’s stunning new photorealistic avatars, coming soon to Quest, so lifelike that they “cross the uncanny valley.”Contin… Continue reading Zuckerberg and Fridman show off insane leap in face-to-face VR chat
[Devin Coldewey] shared his experiences with some of the more unusual VR concepts on display at SIGGRAPH 2023. Some of these ideas are pretty interesting in their own right, and …read more Continue reading See Some Of The Stranger VR Ideas From SIGGRAPH
Move over, quantum dots – quantum rods could be the next big display technology. These tiny sticks could improve 3D displays for VR headsets, and now engineers at MIT have overcome a logistical hurdle by arranging them onto a scaffold made of DNA.Conti… Continue reading Quantum rods on DNA scaffolds could boost future VR displays
Light Fields are a subtle but critical element to making 3D video look “real”, and it has little to do with either resolution or field of view. Meta (formerly Facebook) …read more Continue reading Weird Lens Allows Light Field Passthrough for VR Headset
Putting on a headset and using virtual monitors in VR instead of physical ones is a use case that pops up, but is it really something feasible? [Karl Guttag], who …read more Continue reading Why VR As Monitor Replacement Is Likely To Be Terrible For a While Yet