Remove Controllers Remove Google Remove Head Mounted Display Remove Training
article thumbnail

Big XR News from Google, Meta, IGS Orlando, HTC VIVE, and Warpin

XR Today - Big XR News tag

This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. This has led Google to slash jobs across its operations in recent months.

Google 81
article thumbnail

Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality: Understanding 6 Key Differences

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. The second sort of VR headset contains uses your phone and utilizes its display as its own.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Vuzix Medical Use Cases Show Value of AR Smart Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Their dedication to empowering industries such as medical, manufacturing, remote guidance, and training has led to expansive partnerships with global firms. Following a decades-long career with the photography giant, he developed the world’s first VR head-mounted display (HMD) firm, Forte Technologies.

AR 94
article thumbnail

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Doing that will disable the controllers, and you will be able to navigate in the menus just using your hands. Some developers have anyway already stated they plan to implement a controller-free interface in the next version of their applications. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. JanusVR and High Fidelity close.

article thumbnail

26 VR Apps for Remote Work, Education, Training, Design Review, and More

Road to VR

Control the objects with your gestures and place them freely in your space. Collaborate on the data together in one room with two HoloLenses, or bring in more people from all over the world, wearing a Microsoft Mixed Reality Head-Mounted-Display (HMD). Education & Training.

Education 364
article thumbnail

What is XR (VR/MR/AR)?

Digitalnauts

Users put on a VR headset or head-mounted display to get a 360-degree view of a space their brain believes to be real, thanks through a psychological mechanism called presence. Usually accompanied by one or two controllers, standalone VR is a monolithic headset with built-in screen processor and battery.

AR 52
article thumbnail

How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. 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).