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Scientists Develop Artificial Skin That Allows You To Feel In VR

VRScout

According to an article published last week to the journal of Soft Robotics , scientists based out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed a skin-like material that, when worn over a users’ body, simulates a far more realistic sense of touch than that of current haptic feedback technologies.

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Varjo cuts in half the price of Aero!

The Ghost Howls

I’m writing this article to give you all a heads-up about a good thing that happened today. Because of the high resolution, many of the initial reviews of the Aero highlighted how it is a great headset for simulation and racing games. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0 The FOV is also quite good, at 115° horizontal.

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The Definitive BrainXchange Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise

EnterpriseWear

In 2015, the newly-formed BrainXchange put together the first-ever event devoted to the business and industrial use of wearable technologies. Back then, the team was taking a risk on a category of technology that seemed promising only if you read between the lines of the numerous articles talking about “Glassholes” and fitness trackers.

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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

ARPost

Thus, we prepared for you this glossary which, we hope, will help you understand 100% of the information we share in our articles. A computer-based headset is wearable hardware which the user puts over the head, connected to a computer that runs the VR software and sends the audio/visual information to the headset.

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Facebook Reality Labs Shows Method for Expanding Field of View of Holographic Displays

Road to VR

The researchers used optical simulations to hone their algorithm and then built a benchtop prototype of their proposed pipeline to experimentally demonstrate the method for expanding the field of view of a holographic display. Starting with the design presented by Maimone et al. ” Image courtesy Facebook Reality Labs.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough. Its resolution is impressive, for clarity that fans of simulator games would love.

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Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

One of them is today’s article, where I interview one of the people whose work has inspired me the most this year: Daniel Beauchamp. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Hair simulations! That’s a tough one!