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Apple TV Store Now Lists 3D Movies In Preparation For Vision Pro Launch

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Apple's movie store now lists 3D support on some titles. When introducing Vision Pro at the WWDC event in June, Apple confirmed that its visionOS will support playing 3D versions of movies on a giant virtual screen. You can choose between your real room (optionally darkened) or a virtual environment.

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NVIDIA CloudXR Allows Hi-Fi XR Streaming via 5G Networks

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Thanks to NVIDIA CloudXR SDK kit, users will be able to enjoy VR, AR, and MR experiences at the highest definition of graphics and sound on head-mounted devices or mobile devices. They will have complete freedom of movement to explore the virtual environment, because they won’t need to connect their devices to a computer by cables.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

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Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. This technology could be in the form of a head mounted display, motion tracking, haptic systems in gloves or suits, locomotion, consoles or image capture. TRON (1982).

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A brief history of VR and AR

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At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

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And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it’s just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it's just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear.